Linguistics and Communication MA by Research

University of Birmingham

Become an expert researcher at the forefront of your field. With an international reputation as a centre of excellence, our Department of Linguistics and Communication offers campus and distance-learning PhD supervision across a broad range of research areas.We offer research supervision in a variety of fields in English Language and Applied Linguistics. These include: corpus linguistics, cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics, and stylistics and discourse analysis.Specific research interests include second language acquisition, sign language and gesture, figurative language and quantitative linguistics.The Distance Modular PhDThis is made up of separate research papers which are individually assessed. The work is examined in three phases, at the end of each module.This offers you an incremental, continuously assessed route. You'll progress through explicitly marked stages to a PhD.You'll identify a topic you want to work on. All of your written work should be related to this topic. However, the nature of the assessment means the topic need not be as tightly focused as a traditional PhD.