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Doctor of Philosophy - PhD / DPhil
University of Essex
Full Time
Jan 2028
3 Year
We offer supervision for our PhD Sociolinguistics in the areas of: conversation analysis, language variation and change, dialects and language contact, gender differentiation in language, multilingualism, intercultural pragmatics, language maintenance and shift, Pidgin and Creole linguistics, and language and human rights.Examples of PhD projects which our students have undertaken include studies of the consequences of language contact between Arabic and Cypriot Greek, dialect contact and acquisition of American children in British schools, responses to different types of announcements, and linguistic resources to express agreement.Many of our former PhD students work in higher education institutions around the world, as teachers and/or as academic researchers. Other career paths our former PhD students have taken include publishing, social work, administration, and retail.
The aim of this module is to help you make the transition to independent postgraduate scholarship through workshops and activities directly linked to the promotion and undertaking of research in the Department of Language & Linguistics. Topics may include: identifying research problems, formulating hypotheses and selecting appropriate methodologies for investigation, conducting literature searches, choosing methods for data transcription, quantitative analysis techniques in linguistics research, lab facilities in the department, ethics in linguistic research, writing and reviewing conference abstracts, preparing 20-minute conference presentations, and writing for publication.
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