Linguistics PhD

University of Sussex

We offer research supervision in a wide range of subdisciplines of English language and linguistics. We welcome projects on any variety of English and are able to supervise the description and analysis of a range of languages. We particularly welcome applications in the areas of: • descriptive grammar (including typological approaches) and/or theoretical syntax • discourse analysis (especially political and media discourse, discourse of identity, corpus linguistic approaches) • language variation and change • morphology, phonology, orthography • pragmatics (including intercultural pragmatics and im/politeness) • semantics, lexicology, (meta)lexicography • stylistics. Spirit of Sussex Award Feel involved in life at the University, make friends and enrich your experience with us – the Spirit of Sussex Award is our way of recognising your extracurricular and voluntary achievements.

Faculty of Media, Arts and Humanities