Linguistics, Applied Linguistics Newcastle University

Overview

Within this Linguistics, Applied Linguistics PhD programme from Newcastle University , as a postgraduate researcher you will carry out a major research project working with supervisors who are experts in your field. We offer supervision in a wide range of languages and areas, including:

• second language learning
• conversation and discourse analysis
• inter/cross cultural communication
• corpus linguistics
• oral communicative competence in a second language
• language endangerment
• syntax and morphology
• phonetics and phonology
• history of English
• language variation and change
• language evolution
• (variationist) sociolinguistics
• bilingualism
• first and second language acquisition

Linguistics and applied linguistics is split across three Schools:

• School of Education, Communication and Language Sciences
• School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics
• School of Modern Languages

Our Schools score well in student satisfaction surveys and we have a diverse set of staff expertise. In the 2012 Postgraduate Research Experience Survey, 94% of our students stated that their supervision expectations were met or exceeded. More recently, Professor Anders Holmberg won our student-led award for Best Research Supervisor of 2013.