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Doctoral researchers in Linguistics and Communications

The Department of Linguistics and Communication has a vibrant postgraduate community, carrying out research in a broad range of areas. Profiles of some of our current doctoral researchers and details of their research are listed below:

  • Keith Wilson

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Research into the distinctiveness of modern Quaker discourse.

  • Kate Groves

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Do Language Attitudes Matter? A study of home language environments, language attitudes, and academic achievement among D/deaf adolescents in the ...

  • Alicia Wickert

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Investigating Impoliteness and Impoliteness Reciprocity in Political Language.

  • Magdalena Grose-Hodge

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: The Acquisition of Polish as a Heritage Language in Children Attending British Monolingual Schools.

  • Joanne McCuaig

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Tracking Moral Shifts in American Culture, from Dignity to Victimhood; A Corpus Linguistic Investigation.

  • Satoshi Yamagata

    Doctoral researcher

    PhD title: Evaluating the effects of semantic transparency and the timing of explicit instruction on learning verb-noun collocations in the Japanese EFL cont...