Find a research supervisor in English Language and Linguistics

Our research in the Department of English Language and Linguistics has been at the forefront of investigations into language for decades and spans the full range of the subject.

To enhance individual research and foster collaboration, we organise our work across the themes below, with many colleagues supervising PhD's/ MA by Research in several of these subject groups. Each group has its own particular interests and specialisms within its period. For more information on research supervisors and current projects in that theme, please select an option below.

• Applied linguistics and second language acquisition 
• Corpus linguistics
• Discourse and analysis and stylistics
• Sign language and gesture
• Cognitive linguistics and psycholinguistics
• Iconicity and figurative language
• Sociolinguistics and language variation and change
• Quantitative linguistics and data visualisation