MPhil Linguistics

Examine how language shapes meaning, identity and society. Join a diverse community exploring how we use language and what it reveals about culture. We offer research supervision in a wide range of subdisciplines of English language and linguistics. We welcome projects on any variety of English and are able to supervise the description and analysis of a range of languages. Areas of study We particularly welcome applications in the areas of: descriptive grammar (including typological approaches) andor theoretical syntax discourse analysis (especially political and media discourse, discourse of identity, corpus linguistic approaches) language variation and change morphology, phonology, orthography pragmatics (including intercultural pragmatics and impoliteness) semantics, lexicology, (meta)lexicography stylistics. For an MPhil, your work is an independent piece of research but in less depth than for a PhD. You’ll graduate with the degree title Master of Philosophy. You might be able to change to a PhD while you study for an MPhil.