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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
Online
Online
Feb 2027
4 Year
Applied linguistics offers a fascinating opportunity to study the interaction between language and the real world.Our staff are specialists in the areas of psycholinguistics, language development, second language acquisition and motivation theories of language learning.We host research in discourse analysis and sociolinguistics, with particular specialisms in health communication, professional communication, and language, gender and sexuality. We are unique in offering opportunities to do research in literary linguistics, narratology and cognitive poetics.Students may benefit from joining the Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics, with a long tradition of research on language use in authentic contexts. You may also have the opportunity to:learn about knowledge transfer opportunitiesjoin a reading group, or one of the active research groups (where online options are possible)assist with live research projectsattend guest talks by linguistics scholars (where online options are possible)
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