Overview

This Linguistic Anthropology research reveals at New York University how political, economic, and social processes are grounded in communicative practices and linguistic forms and subject to transformation over time.

Features

We adopt a variety of ethnographic and sociolinguistic methods to document the social life of language, applying these methods across large and small-scale societies and with mobile and diasporic peoples to understand language within broad sociohistorical contexts.

As anthropologists, we also seek to contribute to a deeper understanding of one of the most important legacies of human evolution, our shared capacity for language and symbolic communication, along with our diverse ways of using language in everyday life in different modalities, written, spoken, signed, and face-to-face, among others.

Programme Structure

Curriculum:

We train graduate students to carry out research in a broad range of communities and settings where complex issues of language choice and variation are tied to other social phenomena, such as migration and transnational processes, gender, education, religion, politics, race, and social class.

Situating the study of language practice within a framework of political economy also enables students to examine how language partakes in systems of exchange and social inequality.

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 60 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2025-09-02 00:00:00
- Apply before 2024-12-01 00:00:00

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

100

Delivered

On Campus

Disciplines

Anthropology Linguistics View 63 other PhDs in Linguistics in United States

Academic requirements

We are not aware of any specific GRE, GMAT or GPA grading score requirements for this programme.

English requirements

TOEFL^® IBT

100

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Other requirements

General requirements

Academic Transcripts

Test Scores (if required)

Applicant Statements

Résumé or Curriculum Vitae

Letters of Recommendation, and

A non-refundable application fee.

Tuition Fee

Living costs for New York City

1819 - 3968 USD /month

Living costs

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