Welcome to Linguistics
and English Language
The Department has been at the cutting edge since its foundation in 1974 and is ranked top for Linguistics in the 2012 Complete University Guide.
Our main areas of study are: Discourse Studies; Language and Literacy in their Social Contexts; Linguistic Theory and Language Description; Language Teaching, Learning and Assessment; Methods of Language Research.
Living in Lancaster
Lancaster is probably one of the UK's greenest universities. Stay on either our park-like campus or in the historic city of Lancaster. Find out more about living in Lancaster.
Undergraduate Study
As one of the largest departments of Linguistics in the UK, we offer a wide range of BA (hons) degrees right across the fields of English Language and Linguistics.
Masters Study
Our MA programmes, in the key areas of TESOL/ELT and Language & Discourse, are authoritative and yet questioning. Taught by world class specialists in language and in the language professions they engage with both theory and practice.
PhD Study
Our doctoral programmes have a history of outstanding, and sometimes award-winning, doctoral theses, both on our PhD by thesis-only programme, and on our partially taught 'Thesis and Coursework' scheme.
Other Courses
The Department of Linguistics and English Language offer a range of other courses including Language Testing at Lancaster, English for Academic Purposes and International Summer Programme.
Research
The Department of Linguistics and English Language is an internationally renowned leading centre for empirically-based theoretical and applied research in a wide range of research areas.
Teaching
Courses cover the study of the English Language as well as numerous areas of theoretical and applied linguistics. We also offer a suite of successful postgraduate distance programmes. Students rate our teaching highly, and our staff includes two National Teaching Fellows.
News
We deeply regret to have to announce that Professor Anna Siewierska died on 6th August in a car accident in Vietnam. The department plan to create a student prize in Anna's name, it is possible to make a donation towards this via the university website.
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Events
There are no events today, the next event will be:
31 January 2012, LRDG: The contextualisation of linguistic and textual analysis
Language matters
The prepositions around and on have gradually replaced the prepositions round and upon over the 20th century.
(Baker 2011)