Linguistics (Modern Languages) PhD

University of Nottingham

A Linguistics (Modern Languages) PhD allows you to research a linguistic topic related to one or more modern languages. You may research any modern language but the school has particular expertise in French, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian-Croatian, as well as expertise in Italian and Chinese. Our areas of expertise in linguistics include the following:Sociolinguistics (including language standardisation, historical sociolinguistics)History of linguistics (such as history of ideas about language, including the history of grammar-writing of particular languages)Pragmatics and interactional linguistics (including conversation analysis in workplace and institutional settings, politeness studies, intercultural communication studies)Discourse analysisTranslation and interpreting studiesCorpus linguistics (especially diachronic linguistics)Applied linguistics, especially foreign/second language education and its historyHistorical linguistics

School of Cultures, Languages and Area Studies