PhD Linguistics by Research Only at Lancaster University

 PhD Research Areas

1.  Discourse Studies 

• Studies of Gender and Sexualities
• National Identities
•  Media Interaction
•  Metaphor
• Language and Politics
• Language and migration
• Academic discourse

 2.  Language and Literacy in their Social Contexts

• Sociolinguistics (Language variation, language contact, multilingualism)
• Literacy in everyday life, including online  

3. Linguistics Theory and Language Description

•  Corpus-based and contruction grammar, phonology

4. Teaching, Learning and Assessment

• Language testing and diagnosis
• Task-based language learning
• Second language acquisition
• Learner language
• Intercultural communication 

5. Methods of Language Research

• Corpora
• New technologies
• Database
• Etnography
• Experiments
• Sociolinguistics Survei

Entry Requirements
1. Academic
Usually an MA, with a good mark

2.  English Language Level (for aplicants whose native language is not English)

• IELTS with score at 6.5 overall with at least 6.5 in the reading and witing elements and 6.0 in the listening and speaking elements 

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