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  • Qualification

    PhD/DPhil - Doctor of Philosophy

  • Location

    Queen's Campus

  • Study mode

    Full time

  • Start date

    DEC

  • Duration

    3 Years

Course summary

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.

Tuition fees

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£ 20,500per year

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University information

Queen's University Belfast

Queen's University Belfast

  • University League Table

    24th

  • Campus address

    Queen's Campus, University Road, Belfast, Northern Ireland, BT7 1NN, United Kingdom

Queen's is a member of the UK's Russell Group of research-intensive institutions.
Its historic campus with cutting-edge facilities is set in the heart of the affordable city of Belfast.
Queen's commits to preparing students for the future. It provides international students with dedicated careers support to help them fulfil their potential.

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