Staff research interests
We adopt a very broad and interdisciplinary approach, and believe that it is through rigorous, critical examination of these phenomena from several perspectives that the nature and functions of language and communication can be understood more holistically.
Find out more about the research interests of our academic staff:
| Research topic |
Relevant academics |
| Arabic linguistics |
- Malcolm Edwards: Arabic linguistics; grammatical theory; linguistics; translation.
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| Bilingualism |
- Penelope Gardner-Chloros: bilingualism; code-switching; language contact; sociolinguistics; sociolinguistics of french and modern greek; tu/vous terms of address.
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| Children's speech |
- Zhu Hua: children's speech and language development and disorder; Chinese language and culture; cross-cultural communication.
- Professor Li Wei: language and culture; language situation of immigrant and minority ethnic communities; language, educational and social development of bilingual, minority ethnic children.
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Chinese language and culture
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- Zhu Hua: children's speech and language development and disorder; Chinese language and culture; cross-cultural communication.
- Professor Li Wei: language and culture; language situation of immigrant and minority ethnic communities; language, educational and social development of bilingual, minority ethnic children.
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| Neurolinguistics |
- Marjorie Lorch: brain structure and language behaviour; cross-linguistic studies of language use and language disorders; neurolinguistics; nineteenth-century study of the language faculty; psycholinguistics.
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| Psycholinguistics |
- Jean-Marc Dewaele: emotion; individual differences; interlanguage; psycholinguistics; psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics in foreign language production; second language acquisition; sociolinguistics; sociopragmatics.
- Marjorie Lorch: brain structure and language behaviour; cross-linguistic studies of language use and language disorders; neurolinguistics; nineteenth-century study of the language faculty; psycholinguistics.
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| Sociolinguistics |
- Jean-Marc Dewaele: emotion; individual differences; interlanguage; psycholinguistics; psycholinguistics and sociolinguistics in foreign language production; second language acquisition; sociolinguistics; sociopragmatics.
- Penelope Gardner-Chloros: bilingualism; code-switching; language contact; sociolinguistics; sociolinguistics of french and modern greek; tu/vous terms of address.
- Lisa McEntee-Atalianis: Sign language/deaf studies; Sociolinguistics of the Greek diaspora; Institutional/workplace discourse and identity; English as a Global Language.
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| Translation |
- Malcolm Edwards: Arabic linguistics; grammatical theory; linguistics; translation.
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