This book takes a particular perspective on the nature of poetry and follows this through to proposals for teaching. It focuses attention on how the use of language in short poems can set up conditions for individual interpretation and the representation of reality in ways other than those which are established by normal social convention. This view of poetry, it is argued, leads to a recognition of its essential role in education, and provides a set of principles for an approach to teaching it which integrates the study of language and literature.

The series attracts single or co-authored volumes from authors researching at the cutting edge of this dynamic field of interdisciplinary enquiry. The titles range from books that make such developments accessible to the non-specialist reader to those which explore in depth their relevance for the way language is to be conceived as a subject, and how courses and classroom activities are to be designed. As such, these books not only extend the field of applied linguistics itself and lend an additional significance to its enquiries, but also provide an indispensable professional foundation for language pedagogy and its practice.

該系列吸引了在跨學科研究這個充滿活力的領域，進行研究的作者的單獨或共同撰寫的書籍。這些書名包括讓非專業讀者能夠理解這些發展的書籍，以及深入探討它們與如何將語言視為一門學科以及如何設計課程和課堂活動的相關性的書籍。因此，這些書籍不僅擴展了應用語言學本身的領域，為其研究賦予了額外的意義，而且為語言教育學及其實踐提供了不可或缺的專業基礎。
 

The scope of the series includes:
◆ second language acquisition

◆ bilingualism and multi/plurilingualism

◆ language pedagogy and teacher education

◆ testing and assessment

◆ language planning and policy

◆ language internationalization

◆ technology-mediated communication

◆ discourse-, conversation-, and contrastive-analysis

◆ pragmatics

◆ stylistics

◆ lexicography

◆ translation