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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
University Park Campus
Full Time
SEP
3 years
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PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
University Park Campus
Full Time
SEP
3 years
PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
University Park Campus
Full Time
SEP-26
3 Years
PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy
University Park Campus
Part Time
SEP
6 years
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A Linguistics (Modern Languages) PhD allows you to research a linguistic topic related to one or more modern languages. You may research any modern language but the school has particular expertise in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian-Croatian, as well as expertise in Italian and Chinese. Our areas of expertise in linguistics include the following:Sociolinguistics (including language standardisation, historical sociolinguistics)History of linguistics (such as history of ideas about language, including the history of grammar-writing of particular languages)Pragmatics and interactional linguistics (including conversation analysis in workplace and institutional settings, politeness studies, intercultural communication studies)Discourse analysisTranslation and interpreting studiesCorpus linguistics (especially diachronic linguistics)Applied linguistics, especially foreign/second language education and its historyHistorical linguistics
2:1 (or international equivalent) in an arts, humanities or social science subject - we would usually expect you to hold, or be working towards, a masters degree in a relevant subject.
Students living in
Domestic
£5,006 per year
Students from Domestic
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£23,000 per year
Students from EU
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£23,000 per year
Students from International
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