Linguistics (Modern Languages) PhD 36 months PHD Programme By University of Nottingham |TopUniversities
Subject Ranking

# 101-150QS Subject Rankings

Programme Duration

36 monthsProgramme duration

Tuitionfee

23,000 GBPTuition Fee/year

Main Subject Area

LinguisticsMain Subject Area

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:

  • 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:

  • 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

Domestic
5,350 GBP
International
23,000 GBP

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