MSc by Research Modern Languages, Linguistics and Society

University of Central Lancashire

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)