Centre for Research in Linguistics
The Centre for Research in Linguistics provides a forum for sharing and enhancing existing excellence in Linguistics within the School of Arts, English and Languages, across a range of units including English, French, Irish and Translation/Interpreting. Its members cover a breadth of specialisms including diachronic and synchronic fields in English, French and Irish, and translation theory and practice: lexicography and syntax; sociolinguistics; language variation and change; historical linguistics; language policy; onomastics; discourse analysis; languages education; phonetics and phonology; clinical speech and language; critical discourse analysis, stylistics and pragmatics, and theoretical and comparative syntax. It exploits fully the cross-disciplinary potential of Linguistics within and beyond the School of AEL, including cross-School supervision of PhD projects. In 2016, colleagues in Linguistics received recognition from the to offer ESRC training for Doctoral students, and we are also accredited within the .
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