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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.

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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.

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PhD student receives Judith Baxter Award

One of our PhD students, Alex Krendel, has received the Judith Baxter award from the British Association for Applied Linguistics (BAAL).
Photo of Gemma Hopper and Beth Littlewood on graduation day

Working in Speech and Language Therapy

Linguistics and English Language graduates are well equipped to undertake a range of careers.Two of our recent graduates have gone on to work in speech and language therapy and tell us about their work.
Young child in classroom

Claire Nance - The benefits of Gaelic Medium Education in the Outer Hebrides

The Conversation has published an article by Claire Nance about the benefits of Gaelic Medium Education in the Outer Hebrides.
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New Lancaster-Sydney research partnership to focus on obesity project

Lancaster University and the University of Sydney, Australia have signed an agreement to work together on a corpus linguistics research project focusing on obesity.

 
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.

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27th Feb

Pursuing university education in a foreign language: How difficult could it be? - Danijela Trenkic

Thursday 27 February 2020, 3:00pm to 4:30pm
12th Mar

Predatory Parlance: Understanding the Social Psychology of Online Sexual Predators

Thursday 12 March 2020, 11:00am to 12:00pm
31st Mar

"'How emotional do I make it?' Making a stance in multimodal compositions" Jennifer Rowsell, University of Bristol, Literacy Research Discussion Group

Tuesday 31 March 2020, 1:00pm to 2:00pm

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