Program Overview

We offer research supervision in a wide range of subdisciplines of English language and linguistics. We welcome projects on any variety of English and are able to supervise the description and analysis of a range of languages.

AREAS OF STUDY

We particularly welcome applications in the areas of:

• descriptive grammar (including typological approaches) and/or theoretical syntax
• discourse analysis (especially political and media discourse, discourse of identity, corpus linguistic approaches)
• language variation and change
• morphology, phonology, orthography
• pragmatics (including intercultural pragmatics and im/politeness)
• semantics, lexicology, (meta)lexicography
• stylistics.

For a PhD, your research work makes a substantial original contribution to knowledge or understanding in your chosen field.