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A-Z 77applicativeVerbal voice which makes a non-subject ( benefactive) a direct object, cf. SwahiliMama alipika chakula kwa watoto ‘The mother cooked the food for the children’ vsMama aliwapikia watoto chakula ‘The mother cooked the children food,’ where pika isthe basic form for ‘cook’ and pikia ‘cooked for.’applied linguisticsTerm covering several linguistic subdisciplines as well as certain interdisciplinary areasthat use linguistic methods: language pedagogy, psycholinguistics, languageacquisition, second language acquisition, translation, contrastive analysis, languageplanning, lexicography,’ computational linguistics, ethnolinguistics, sociolinguistics,and others. Applied linguistics differs from theoretical linguistics in that the latter isconcerned with the formal structure of language as an autonomous system of signs. Theterm ‘applied linguistics’ is in some cases misleading, since in many of the subdisciplineslanguage is studied from both a theoretical and practical (i.e. applied) perspective.Moreover, some areas should be considered ‘applications’ of linguistics. Appliedlinguistics has become a field of growing linguistic interest, as evidenced by the manyjournals devoted to these allied studies which have been launched since the 1960s.ReferencesAllen, P.B. and S.P.Corder (eds.) 1973–7. The Edinburgh course in applied linguistics. 4 vols.London.Corder, S.P. 1973. Introducing applied linguistics. Harmondsworth.Jung, U. 1988. Computers in applied linguistics and language teaching: ACALL handbook.Frankfurt.Kaplan, R.B. (ed.) 1979–. Annual review of applied linguistics (Vols 1, 5, 10: A broad survey of theentire field of applied linguistics). Cambridge.Tomic, O.M. and R.W.Shuy (eds) 1987. The relation of theoretical and applied linguistics. NewYork.DictionaryRichards, J., J.Platt, and H.Weber. 1985. Longman dictionary of applied linguistics. London.