Linguistics at Northumbria

Linguistics at Northumbria covers a very broad range of applied and theoretical areas, using a wide range of empirical techniques.

Our areas of expertise include:

cognitive linguistics
first and second language acquisition
forensic linguistics
language evolution and change
language in education
language teaching
language variation
medical communication
pragmatics
sociolinguistics
stylistics
TESOL

Our current research includes projects which focus on:

identity issues facing Native Speaking English Teachers living and working abroad
ways of supporting learners of English as a second language with low levels of literacy
the role of metaphor in maths education
the role of pragmatic inference in the production, interpretation and evaluation of texts
how accent and dialect diversity can be used as a resource in teaching
implicit and explicit attitudes to language variation
the historical development of yes and other positive and negative markers in English
pragmatics and language change
the evolution of language
the relationship between musical perception and the perception of speech prosody
metaphor and time
critical pedagogy and language teaching
individual differences in language processing
discursive practices in Dark Web criminal activities
the language of police interviews

For further information on our researchers and their projects, see our staff profile pages:

For general queries about linguistics at Northumbria, contact Billy Clark:

billy.clark@northumbria.ac.uk

British Association for Applied Linguistics 2021 Conference

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