应用语言学是一门多边缘的交叉科学,它以语言学为中心,结合多方面的学科,包括统计学、心理学、信息论、控制论、语言声学、计算机技术、字母学和正词法、现代汉字学等等,并随时扩展到其他学科。应用语言学以“应用”为生命。离开“应用”,应用语言学就失去了存在的价值。“应用”因时而异,因地而异,因事而异。有当前急迫需要的主要应用,有暂时可有可无的次要应用。 分清本末,分清主次,分清缓急,应用语言学才能最佳地发挥作用。 《中国大百科全书—语言文字》(1988)中说:应用语言学是“研究语言在各个领域中实际应 Applied linguistics is a multi-edge interdisciplinary science that focuses on linguistics and combines various disciplines including statistics, psychology, information theory, cybernetics, language acoustics, computer technology, alphabetology and orthography, modern Chinese characters Learning, etc., and extended to other disciplines at any time. Applied Linguistics takes “application” as its life. Without “application,” applied linguistics loses its existential value. The “application” varies from time to time, from place to place, to something different. There are currently major applications urgently needed, with secondary applications that are temporarily dispensable. To distinguish the cart before the horse, to distinguish between primary and secondary, distinguish priorities, the application of linguistics can best play its role. “Encyclopedia of China - Language” (1988), said: Applied Linguistics is "the study of language in all fields should actually