Linguistics and English Language

With more top ranked research than any other UK department in the field, and  among the world's top ten, we receive consistently excellent reviews for our teaching programmes and host a varied and enthusiastic student community.

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  2. Why study English Language?

  3. What our students think

  4. Research

News

New Award: Dr Warren Maguire

23 Mar 2012

British Academy Small Grant awarded to Dr Warren Maguire...

2012 Teaching Awards Winners

17 Mar 2012

Dr Monika Hunter (Psychology) and Dr Graeme Trousdale (LEL) have both won...

New Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh elected

7 Mar 2012

Congratulations to Professor Simon Kirby...

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Events

Reading Group on LVC and Statistics

17 May 2012 11:00 – 12:00

Reading: Drager, Katie and Jennifer Hay. 2012. Exploiting random intercepts: Two case studies in...

Sociolinguistics Reading Group

21 May 2012 12:00 – 14:00

Reading: Bakhtin, M. M. 1981. The Dialogic Imagination. Translated by C. Emerson and M....

Syntax and Semantics Research Group

23 May 2012 15:00 – 16:30

Speaker: Steve Franks
Topic: Spell-Out Domains, Large and Small

Abstract: Taking "Spell-out" as...

Language In Context Research Group

23 May 2012 15:30 – 16:30

Speaker: Paul Seedhouse (Newcastle University)
Title: "A Pervasive Language Learning Environment:...

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