Research in the School of Language and Communication Studies at UEA focuses on cross-cultural communication. Staff share an interest in the crossover of language, translation and media in a multilingual framework. We welcome applications for Masters by Research, MPhil and PhD degrees in the fields of translation, cross-cultural communication and linguistics.
Research degrees
Information about the different types of research degree.Research and supervision
Our areas of research and supervision offer complementary perspectives, in line with UEA’s tradition of interdisciplinary research:
- 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.
Research culture
The School has interdisciplinary links with other specialisms at UEA, including literary translation, The British Centre for Literary Translation (BCLT), and the Schools of Literature and Creative Writing, Film and Television Studies, Political, Social and International Studies, Computer Science, Philosophy and Music.
Our postgraduate students edit UEA’s Norwich Papers, issues of which are devoted to translators and translation.
International links include collaboration in research on translation, intercultural pragmatics and metaphor theory with the Universities of Hamburg, Heidelberg. Eotvos Lorand University (Budapest) and Strasbourg.
International events
In the summer 2011, the School will host its second interdisciplinary cross-cultural pragmatics conference – Cross-Cultural Pragmatics at a Crossroads II: Linguistic and Cultural Representations across Media - as a follow up to a very successful event in 2006. Further details are available on the conference website.
Enquiries and how to apply
The School welcomes research enquiries from prospective students. Please contact individual academics or Professor Andreas Musolff, the School’s Postgraduate Research Director, to discuss your proposal.
For admissions enquiries and general information contact the PGR Office:
Tel.: +44 (0)1603 591709; pgr.enquiries.admiss@uea.ac.uk
How to apply
Studentships
Further Information
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The Graduate School
All our postgraduate students are members of the Graduate School.
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Academic Staff
Contact details and further information about academic staff.
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Research
Research activity and current research projects within the School.
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Employability
What jobs have past students from the School of Language and Communication Studies taken up?
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Funding and Studentships
AHRC and UEA studentships and other sources of funding.
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How to Apply
Applications are made through the Graduate School.
