Languages and Literacies

Entry requirements

The normal minimum entrance requirement is an upper second class honours degree or master's degree.

Months of entry

October

Course content

Researchers at the School of Languages and Applied Linguistics view language as a powerful social and cultural phenomenon and adopt a range of socially oriented approaches towards the study of language across the lifespan, carrying out field-defining research on the centrality of language, languages and literacies to social and cultural life. A wide range of theoretical and methodological approaches are used, including cognitive stylistics, complexity theory, corpus linguistics, discourse analysis, second language acquisition theory, eyetracking, multimodal analysis, linguistic ethnography, literary theory and criticism, semiotics, systemic functional linguistics, sociocultural theory, social network theory, ethnography and sociolinguistics.

These approaches are used to explore language in many contexts such as language education, teaching and learning across the curriculum, social work, medical humanities, language policy, translation, digitally mediated communication, social media, language and globalisation.