a. According to Mouton de Gruyter, the scope of applied linguistics includes:
Language Acquisition (L1 and L2), Psycho/Neuro – linguistics, Language Teaching, Sociolinguistics, Humor Studies, Pragmatics, Discourse Analysis/Rhetorics, Text/Processing/Translation, Computational Linguistics – Machine Translation, Corpus Linguistics, Language Control/Dialectology.
b. According to the International Association of Applied Linguistics, the scope of applied linguistics includes:
Adult Language Learning, Child Language, Communication in the Professions, Contrastive Linguistics and Error Analysis, Discourse Analysis, Educational Technology and Language Learning, Foreign Language Teaching Methodology and Teacher Education, Forensic Linguistics, Immersion Education, Interpreting and Translating, Language and Ecology, Language and Education in Multilingual Settings, Language and Gender, Language and the Media, Language Contact and Language Change, Language for Special Purposes, Language Planning, Learner Autonomy in Language Learning, Lexicography and Lexicology, Literacy, Mother Tongue Education, Psycholinguistics, Rhetoric and Stylistics, Second Language Acquisition, Sign Language.
Linguistics 