Overview

About the programme

Especially in combination with other approaches to the study of language, Corpus Linguistics methods can empirically address both qualitative and quantitative research questions.

Analysing large-scale corpora helps uncover patterns of communication and hidden bias in language that we might not have noticed before and has lots of exciting applications in all sorts of domains such as literature, languages, policy, education, sociology, health communication.

For example, researchers in the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics at the The Open University UK have used corpus linguistics with (critical) discourse analysis to answer questions about ideological representations in news media texts (for example, constructions of gender, representations of poverty and place); with pragmatics to study professional communication such as email; and in combination with ethnography to study writing in social work practice.

Programme Structure

Potential research projects:

Projects which combine critical discourse analysis and corpus linguistics
The use of corpus linguistics to explore issues of ender in any kind of text but especially in the media and/or literature
Professional communication including professional writing
Corpus approaches to politeness in language
Corpus pragmatics
Corpus study of student writing
Corpus study of children’s and young adult fiction
Corpus approaches to language and gender
Corpus approaches to sociolinguistic variation and change

Key information

Duration

Full-time
- 36 months
Part-time
- 72 months

Start dates & application deadlines

Starting 2027-10-01 00:00:00
- Apply before 2027-01-01 00:00:00

Language

English

TOEFL^® IBT

87

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Delivered

On Campus

Campus Location

Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

Disciplines

Linguistics View 74 other PhDs in Linguistics in United Kingdom

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Academic requirements

GPA

Upper Second Class

English requirements

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87

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Other requirements

General requirements

Entry requirements:

Minimum 2:1 undergraduate degree (or equivalent). If you are not a UK citizen, you may need to prove your knowledge of English.

Tuition Fees

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Non-residents

12705 GBP / year

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Citizens or residents

5006 GBP / year

≈ 5006 GBP / year

Living costs

Milton Keynes

United Kingdom

848 - 1345 GBP / month

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