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Product Description Applied Linguistics is an upcoming area of study for students pursuing a career in Linguistics. The book tries to add new information and findings to the existing knowledge available for the students and scholars willing to know more about the aspects of Applied Linguistics. This book covers English Language Teaching, Dictionary Compilation, Translation, and Dialect Study in a Very lucid and simplified manner so that anyone interested can easily gather ideas about these fields. In the present Indian scenario, there is hardly any book on Applied Linguistics which can be useful for the students of English and Linguistics who study in different Indian Universities and colleges. This book is written to address the need of the learners. Thus, the target readers of this book are the students of both undergraduate (BA) and postgraduate (MA) levels of Linguistic, Besides the book shall also be highly useful for the students of MA in English of the Indian universities, as it has become mandatory to include one paper of Linguistics in MA English level. The book also serves as a valuable reference tool for researchers in Indian and abroad. About the Author Dr. Niladri Sekhar Dash (b.1967) acts as an Assistant Professor in Linguistic Research Unit of Indian Statistical Institute Kolkata. He specializes in corpus Linguistics, Natural Language Processing, Language Technology, and Applied Linguistics. To his credit he has published ten books and nearly hundred research papers in peer-reviewed national and international journals. As a Guest Faculty he has taught in Madras University, Chennai: Jadavpur University, Kolkata: Punjabi University, Patiala; North Bengal University, Darjeeling; Sanskrit University, Tirupati; Telugu University, Hyderabad; R.K. Mission Vivekananda University, Kolkata; and Ranchi University, Ranchi. Also, he has acted as an expert in the ASI@IT&C of the Localization of Language Technology of the European commi