About Linguistics, English Language & Bilingualism
Linguistics and English language as subjects have been taught at È«Ãñ²ÊƱ since the 1960s, making our department one of the first Linguistics departments in the UK. We are a vibrant, accessible, friendly department with staff committed to high-quality teaching, excellent student experience, strong pastoral support, and cutting-edge research.
Located in the richly bilingual setting of north Wales, our department and staff also have a long history of important research, teaching, and research project supervision fields of bilingualism and multilingualism, as well as more generally in the Welsh language and in Welsh linguistics.
Our postgraduate courses are ideal for those who are interested in applying theoretical, applied, experimental and ethnographic approaches to the study of language, its nature, structure, form, varieties, use(s), variation and change as well as from teaching / instructional and pedagogical perspectives.
Our courses in Linguistics, Applied Linguistics for TEFL, Language Technologies, Bilingualism and Language Acquisition and Development offer students the chance to explore language from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives.
Our staff have internationally recognised specialisations and research profiles in the following fields:
- 1st and 2nd language acquisition
- language variation and change
- language maintenance, atypical language development, corpus linguistics
- language and communication
- language technologies / natural language processing (NLP)
- contested languages, processing and acquisition of prosody and syntax
- psycholinguistics
- historical linguistics
- grammaticalization
- Cognitive Discourse Analysis (CODA)
- Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA)
- multimodal analy