Our teaching is informed by cutting edge research and practice in intercultural communication, applied translation studies and interlanguage pragmatics.
Regular research seminars are held in the School providing an opportunity for UEA colleagues and students to attend presentations focused on issues of cross-cultural communication and translation studies.
UEA is home to the ‘Cross-Cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads' (CCP) series of international conferences which explore key concerns in communication across language and culture boundaries.

Research in the School of Language and Communication Studies (LCS) focuses on cross-cultural communication.

Research staff in the School all share an interest in the cross-over of language, translation and media in a multilingual framework. The different standpoints from which they approach the interaction between language and forms of communication constitute complementary and mutually enriching perspectives, in line with UEA's tradition of interdisciplinary research. They include:

  • Translation studies
  • Cross-cultural pragmatics
  • Intercultural and interlanguage pragmatics
  • Critical linguistics and discourse analysis (including appraisal theory) 
  • Discourse history, memory and culture 
  • Language and globalisation 
  • Psycholinguistics - computer modelling of morphology 
  • Language and museology
  • Language in new media