Areas of Research and Supervision
Since its establishment 25 years ago, CRAL has branched out in many different directions and specialises in the following areas of linguistic enquiry:
Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis and Pragmatics
- Professional communciation
- Healthcare communication, including hisotircal medical discourse
- Ecolinguistics
- Corpus linguistics and corpus-assisted discounre studies
- Queer linguistics
- Multimodal discourse analysis
- Language, gender and sexuality
- Critical discourse studies
- Digital communication
Language Learning and Teaching
- English Medium Instruction
- Language policy
- Multilingual education
- Learning and teaching vocabulary
- Student and teacher training and continuing professional development
- Classroom group dynamics
- Teaching and learning reading, writing, speaking and listening in a new language
- Teacher and student wellbeing
- Teacher and student emotions: anxiety, boredom, shame, enjoyments, curiosity, pride etc.
- The psychology of language teaching and learning
- Language learner and teacher identity
Literary Linguistics
- Stylistics
- Narratology
- Cognitive poetics
- Cognitive Narratology
- Consciousness in fiction
- Empirical stylistics
- Feminist stylistics
- Historical stylistics
- Literary-linguistic approaches to Modernism, Surrealism and other literary movements
- Literary-linguistic approaches to dystopian fiction, science fiction and other genre fiction
Psycholinguistics
- Child language acquisition
- Accent variation
- Speech processing
- Speech production and perception
- Idiom and phrase-learning (e.g. fish and chips)
- The role of emoticons and emoji in digital communtication
- Language and dialogue in video games
- The use of sarcasm and irony in written and spoke communication
Supervision Areas
We welcome proposals and interest from potential postgraduate research students and researchers
Sociolinguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics
Language learning and teaching
Literary Linguistics
Psycholinguistics