Research activities within Modern Languages, Linguistics and Society range from sign language to sociolinguistics. The team is working internationally to develop our understanding of the structure of spoken and signed languages, and the language used within cultural, social, political, institutional and forensic contexts.
Consistently one of the University’s strongest areas of research, Modern Languages, Linguistics and Society contains international and world-leading researchers working collaboratively across disciplines in the areas of:
Sign language linguistics
Corpus linguistics
Forensic linguistics
Critical Discourse Analysis
Sociolinguistics
Second Language Acquisition
Critical digital pedagogy and computer-assisted language learning
Language teacher training
Interpreting and translation
Cultural identity and thought as expressed through world cinema and literature
Language-based area studies (e.g., Arabic, Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Spanish)
