Linguistics PhD

Queen's University Belfast

The study of language is fundamental to the research environment across the School of Arts, English andLanguages, where various linguistic approaches are taken to varieties of English, French, Irish, and more.You’ll be part of a dynamic doctoral research environment and will study alongside students from diverse backgrounds. We supervise students undertaking research in key sub-disciplines of linguistics, including: sociolinguistics language variation and change language policy (education, community languages, minoritized languages) place-names language used in new media, narrative, literature, rhetoric, discourse analysis and translation and advancing knowledge of languages across the levels of phonetics and phonology, lexicology, morphology-syntax and pragmatics.

School of Arts, English and Languages