36 monthsProgramme duration
23,000 GBPTuition Fee/year
SepStarting Month
Programme overview
Main Subject
Linguistics
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
What if your passion for linguistics could help improve the way we understand international history, culture and politics? Follow your intercultural research interests to a deeper level in a department ranked 6th nationally in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.
A Linguistics (Modern Languages) PhD allows you to research a linguistic topic related to one or more modern languages. You may research any modern language but the school has particular expertise in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian-Croatian, as well as expertise in Italian and Chinese.
Our areas of expertise in linguistics include the following:
A Linguistics (Modern Languages) PhD allows you to research a linguistic topic related to one or more modern languages. You may research any modern language but the school has particular expertise in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian-Croatian, as well as expertise in Italian and Chinese.
Our areas of expertise in linguistics include the following:
- Sociolinguistics (including language standardisation, historical sociolinguistics)
- History of linguistics (such as history of ideas about language, including the history of grammar-writing of particular languages)
- Pragmatics and interactional linguistics (including conversation analysis in workplace and institutional settings, politeness studies, intercultural communication studies)
- Discourse analysis
- Translation and interpreting studies
- Corpus linguistics (especially diachronic linguistics)
- Applied linguistics, especially foreign/second language education and its history
- Historical linguistics
Programme overview
Main Subject
Linguistics
Degree
PhD
Study Level
PHD
Study Mode
On Campus
What if your passion for linguistics could help improve the way we understand international history, culture and politics? Follow your intercultural research interests to a deeper level in a department ranked 6th nationally in the Research Excellence Framework (REF) 2021.
A Linguistics (Modern Languages) PhD allows you to research a linguistic topic related to one or more modern languages. You may research any modern language but the school has particular expertise in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian-Croatian, as well as expertise in Italian and Chinese.
Our areas of expertise in linguistics include the following:
A Linguistics (Modern Languages) PhD allows you to research a linguistic topic related to one or more modern languages. You may research any modern language but the school has particular expertise in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian-Croatian, as well as expertise in Italian and Chinese.
Our areas of expertise in linguistics include the following:
- Sociolinguistics (including language standardisation, historical sociolinguistics)
- History of linguistics (such as history of ideas about language, including the history of grammar-writing of particular languages)
- Pragmatics and interactional linguistics (including conversation analysis in workplace and institutional settings, politeness studies, intercultural communication studies)
- Discourse analysis
- Translation and interpreting studies
- Corpus linguistics (especially diachronic linguistics)
- Applied linguistics, especially foreign/second language education and its history
- Historical linguistics
Admission Requirements
7+
3+
76+
100+
2:1 (or international equivalent) in an arts, humanities or social science subject – we would usually expect you to hold, or be working towards, a masters degree in a relevant subject.
3 Years
Sep
Tuition fees
Domestic
5,350 GBP
International
23,000 GBP
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