University Paris Diderot, Paris, France, 8-10 July 2015

Organized by CLILLAC-ARP (the Centre for, Interlanguage Linguistics, Lexicology, English and Corpus Linguistics – Workshop for Research on Speech, EA 3967) at Paris Diderot University, AFLA (the French Association for Applied Linguistics) and partner associations (ACEDLE, APLIUT, APLV, ARDAA, ASDIFLE, ATALA, GERALS, GERAS, GERES, RANACLES, SFT, SHESL, UPLEGESS)

Applied Linguistics in the 21st Century is a rich and varied discipline, with many sub-domains. And each specialism has its own research tradition, often associated with the particular countries in which it developed: language acquisition / learning, bi- and pluri-lingualism, didactics, lexicography, corpus linguistics, terminology, translation studies, computational linguistics, variation, etc…. However, it’s interesting to note that the areas covered by these disciplines are often shared. A prime example of this to look at the areas covered by the term Applied Linguistics and its equivalents linguistique appliquée, angewandte Linguistik, Lingüística aplicada in their respective languages. Transdisciplinarity and multidisciplinarity are the trademarks of the 21st Century, as can be seen in the emergence of so many multi- or transdisciplinary fields, including examples which combine ‘humanities’ and ‘pure sciences’. Applied Linguistics, because of the variety of areas which it is involved in, has followed the inexorable development of this process of hybridization. Furthermore, the practice of Applied Linguistics has come to involve not only the application of theoretical knowledge, but also the emergence of new fields of investigation, which then feed back into current debates within the language sciences. The aim of the international conference TRELA is to follow up on the exchanges started at the CRELA conference in Nancy 2013, and to allow researchers and other practitioners in the different fields of Applied Linguistics to discuss and debate on issues relating to areas of shared research, as well as exchange on these topics raised from a multidisciplinary or transdisciplinary perspective.