Description

This book series is an engine for new thought in the transdisciplinary field of applied linguistics, a field that is broadly devoted to understanding real-world language practices and to teaching effectively about their complex dimensions. "Trends", in the context of this series, means articulating the leading edge of courageous and experimental thought in applied linguistics, thought that has the power to expand the scope of the field in ways necessary for our emerging historical moment. The series includes collaboratively edited volumes on focused questions, as well as monographs that ask as yet unanswered questions and inspire us to think in new ways about them.

We invite submissions that address pressing issues for scholarship and society in locales around the planet, and that pursue conceptual, empirical, and theoretical modes of inquiry suitable to our complex moment. The series foregrounds perspectives that are attuned to the current social and historical age (without being narrowly presentist), that encourage intellectual risk-taking and experimentation with form and genre, that express relevance to public life and language policy around the world, that uplift and honour specific communities of practice, and/or that resist the mere rehearsal and recycling of established positions or received knowledge.

Early career researchers are particularly welcome to propose a project to the series editors, as are scholars from historically marginalized standpoints and from global South and Indigenous knowledge traditions. We will support authors in foregrounding data, concepts, and scholarship in languages beyond English.