Contents -- 1 Applied linguistics and communities of practice: gaining communality or losing disciplinary autonomy? -- 2 Final frontiers in applied linguistics? -- 3 'Doing engineering' globally: negotiating meaning in a world-wide community of practice -- 4 Sociolinguistic struggles in outdoor texts in a Creolespeaking community: the significance of 'embedding' -- 5 Computer-mediated interaction: using discourse maps to represent multi-party, multi-topic asynchronous discussions -- 6 'Now I didn't mean to break his teeth': Applying topic management to problems of power asymmetry and voluntary confessions -- 7 Using CHILDES tools for researching second language acquisition -- 8 Rationales for foreign language education in the 21st century -- 9 Applied linguistics applied -- 10 Categorisation practices across professional boundaries: some analytic insights from genetic counselling -- 11 Quantifying non-sexist language: the case of Ms -- 12 Interaction in the literacy hour: a case study of learners with English as an additional language -- 13 Is the university a community of practice? -- Contributors.