Linguistics and English Language

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For the last forty years, we have been known for cutting-edge empirically-based theoretical and applied research in a wide range of research areas. We constantly strive to make links with potential users of our work.

Research Centres and Groups

The department hosts active research groups in areas such as cognitive linguistics, critical discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, language and gender, literacy, pragmatics and stylistics, and second language learning, assessment and teaching.

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The Department has some outstanding resources. We have fully equipped laboratories for eye-tracking, phonetics, EEG (Electroencephalography) and child language analysis.

Latest News

One of the images from the Metaphor Menu launched at the ESRC Festival of Social Science this week and available to the public from Monday. Image shows three people walking along a path with the message that some journeys with cancer are long and others short but what matters most is how we walk the journey

Metaphor 'menu' for cancer patients launched by researchers

The first manual of expressions describing cancer has been developed by researchers to help patients make sense of their disease. The metaphor 'Menu', which will be available online from Monday, November 11, follows research by Lancaster University based on the views of more than 100 people involved in cancer care and analysis of more than one million words.

LAEL professors in BBC IDEAS documentary

Panos Athanasopoulos and Chris Hart discuss the various ways in which language can affect our thinking, and how speakers of different languages see the world differently.

Children of all nationalities playing outside

Study addresses one of the most challenging problems in educational policy and practice

Language proficiency has an important influence on learners’ ability to answer scientific questions a new joint study by Lancaster and Sheffield Universities has found. And this is particularly challenging for children from homes where English is not their first language –now a significant and increasing proportion of classrooms worldwide.

New podcast launched: Words & Actions

This week sees the launch of a new podcast - Words and Actions: A podcast about how language matters in business, politics and beyond.

Professor Elena Semino conferred as Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (FAcSS)

Professor Semino was nominated by the British Association for Applied Linguistics, in recognition of her contribution to social science.

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Upcoming Events

6th Dec

‘Medical interpreting in the NHS: Translating language, mediating cultures’ - talk by Dr Teodora Manea - Culture, Society and Medicine seminar series

Friday 6 December 2019, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

12th Mar

Predatory Parlance: Understanding the Social Psychology of Online Sexual Predators

Thursday 12 March 2020, 11:00am to 12:00pm

29th Jun

English Language Workshop for Year 10 to 13 students and their teachers

Monday 29 June 2020, 9:00am to 3:00pm

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