Applied Linguistics PhD

Our staff are specialists across many areas of applied linguistics, including psycholinguistics, language development, second language acquisition and motivation theories of language learning.<br/><br/>We also offer research expertise in discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, with particular specialisms in health communication, media communication, professional communication, and language and identity studies.<br/><br/>We are unique in offering opportunities to do research in literary linguistics, narratology and cognitive poetics. <br/><br/>You will have the opportunity to:<br/><br/><br/>- gain access to placement and knowledge transfer opportunities<br/><br/><br/>- join a reading group, or one of the active research groups<br/><br/><br/>- assist with live research projects<br/><br/><br/>- attend guest talks by linguistics scholars<br/><br/><br/>Follow your intercultural research interests to a deeper level, in a department ranked 6th nationally in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.