This collection of research offers an initial step in the pursuit of an appliable linguistics. Appliable Linguistics takes everyday real-life language-related problems - both theoretical and practical - in diverse social, professional and academic contexts as its starting point. It then uses and contributes to a theoretical model of language that can respond to and is appliable in the context. The concept of appliable linguistics used in this volume is informed by the work of M.A.K. Halliday, who believes that "the value of a theory lies in the use that can be made of it." The chapters in this volume thus use and contribute to an appliable linguistics that engages with a range of issues including: translation, education, language teaching/learning, multimodality, media, social policy and action, and positive discourse analysis. This collection of research is offered as an initial step in the pursuit of Appliable Linguistics, which we hope will serve as a foundation for future work across the discipline.

1. Appliable Linguistics: an introduction, Ahmar Mahboob & Naomi K. Knight (University of Sydney, Australia)
2. Pinpointing the choice: Meaning and the search for equivalents in a translated text, M.A.K. Halliday (University of Sydney, Australia)
3. Appliable Linguistics and English Language Teaching: Scaffolding Literacy in Adult and Tertiary Environments (SLATE) project, Ahmar Mahboob, JR Martin, Sally Humphrey & Shoshana Dreyfus (all University of Sydney, Australia)
4. Negotiating evaluation: story structure and appraisal in youth justice conferencing, J. R. Martin, Michele Zappavigna  & Paul Dwyer (all University of Sydney, Australia) 
5. Modelling social affiliation and genre in the civic domain, Sally Humphrey (University of Sydney, Australia)
6. News and 'register': a preliminary investigation, Annabelle Lukin (Macquarie University, Australia)
7. Constructing sports stars: appliable linguistics and the language of the media, Shoshana Dreyfus & Sandra Jones (University of Sydney, Australia)
8. Naming culture in convivial conversational humour, Naomi Knight (both University of Sydney, Australia)
9. Visualising Appraisal prosody, Michele Zappavigna, Chris Cléirigh, Paul Dwyer & J. R. Martin (all University of Sydney, Australia)
10. Evaluative Stance in Humanities: expectations and performances, Erika Matruglio (University of Technology Sydney, Australia)
11. The 3x3: setting up a linguistic toolbox for teaching and assessing academic writing, Sally Humphrey, J. R. Martin, Shoshana Dreyfus, & Ahmar Mahboob (all University of Sydney, Australia)
12. Why are logical connectives sometimes detrimental to coherence?: Implicit conjunction and causality in scientific and scholarly writing, Alan Jones (Macquarie University, Australia)
13. Contestable Reality: a Multi-level view on Modality in Multimodal Pedagogic Context, Yumin Chen (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
14. Making many meanings in popular rap music, David Caldwell (University of Sydney, Australia)
15. Rank in visual grammar: Some implications for Multimodal Discourse Analysis (MDA), Sumin Zhao (University of Sydney, Australia) 
16. The meaning of 'not' is not in 'not', Ruqaiya Hasan (Macquarie University, Australia)
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