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English Language and Linguistics
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Overview
English Language and Linguistics (ELL) is a new department within the School of European Culture and Languages (SECL), founded in September 2010. We have a strong team of research-active full and part-time staff, a lively teaching and research culture with regular research seminars and papers from staff and visiting speakers and Erasmus teaching and research links with a number of partner universities, including Berne (Switzerland); Oulu (Finland); Nijmegen (Netherlands), the Autonomous University of Madrid (Spain) and Marburg (Germany).
Full-time staff and postgraduates are members of a research centre, the Centre for Language and Linguistic Studies (CLLS), which seeks to promote language-based research both inside and outside of SECL, and runs a biennial conference Interfaces in Language. We have also forged links with research networks and clusters on campus, and are involved with national and international academic research associations, including PALA (Poetics and Linguistics Association), AFLS (Assocation of French Language Studies) and LAGB (Linguistics Assocation of Great Britain).
Our interests cover syntax, language acquisition, language and speech disorders, literary stylistics, sociolinguistics and language change, semantics and morphology, phonetics and pragmatics. We are able to supervise MA and PhD research.
Postgraduate resources
Although English Language and Linguistics (ELL) is a new department, the study of linguistics has a long tradition at Kent and the Templeman Library is well stocked in all areas, particularly those where we have a current research specialism. The School provides high-quality IT facilities, including state-of-the-art media laboratories, dedicated technical staff and designated areas for postgraduate study. Other facilities include all-purpose teaching rooms, two networked multimedia laboratories and a streamed film library, as well as access to satellite TV channels. Experienced technicians can provide support with computing, sound recording and digital media.
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Training
The Graduate School offers all postgraduates in the School of European Culture and Languages a wide-ranging programme of training in transferable skills. The School provides training workshops for postgraduate students with teaching responsibilities, bringing together postgraduates from all our subject areas.
Research students may gain further academic experience by giving talks at the Centre for Modern European Literature research seminars. Postgraduates in the School also organise their own annual international conference and edit and contribute to Skepsi, the School's postgraduate online journal of European thought at Kent.
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Prof. Amalia Arvaniti
English Language and Linguistics
School of European Culture and Languages
University of Kent, Cantebury
Kent CT2 7NF
T: +44 (0) 1227 827734
E: a.arvaniti@kent.ac.uk
Centre for English and World Languages
T: +44 (0)1227 824069
E: premasters@kent.ac.uk
W: www.kent.ac.uk/cewl/courses/GraduateDiplomas