- Center for Applied Linguistics
The Center for Applied Linguistics (CAL) is a
nonprofit organization whose mission is to research and distribute information regardinglanguage andculture . The organization is headquartered inWashington, DC in the United States. It was founded as a private anon-profit by means of aFord Foundation grant, withStanford applied linguistics professorCharles A. Ferguson as its first director, on February 16, 1959. [cite book | last = Peng | first = Fred | title = Language in the Brain | publisher = Continuum | location = London | year = 2005 | isbn = 0826487017 ]In its original incarnation CAL was closely related to the
Modern Language Association [cite book | last = Phillipson | first = Robert | title = Linguistic Imperialism | publisher = Oxford University Press | location = Oxford Oxfordshire | year = 1992 | isbn = 0194371468 ] , but it has since come to function independently.It collaborates with
Georgetown University andGeorge Washington University .External Links
* [http://www.cal.org/ Center for Applied Linguistics]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=4jVeGWtzQ1oC&pg=RA1-PA161&vq=%22Center+for+Applied+Linguistics%22&dq=Center+for+Applied+Linguistics+-inauthor:%22+Center+for+Applied+Linguistics%22&as_brr=3&output=html&source=gbs_search_s&cad=1&sig=ACfU3U0IG3sQDV_cc6-sERkL3vbwelHYFQ Linguistic Imperialism By Robert Phillipson Oxford University Press, 2000 ISBN 0194371468]References
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