Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics

The Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics is a vibrant centre that sits within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, with strong links across the University. It is home to a group of researchers who explore language in public and private use. We share a goal of improving communication and understanding between individuals, communities, and wider society through public engagement and knowledge exchange. Our research is rigorous, impactful, transformative and socially relevant to everyday experiences outside of academia.

Thematically, our work across explores language in relation to a broad set of contemporary issues and contexts, contributing to world-leading research that complexifies our understanding of language in the world. Our vision for the Manchester Centre for Research in Linguistics is:

“to be a supportive and inclusive research environment where researchers feel empowered and valued as part of a cross-disciplinary critical mass situated within a dynamic structure that is internationally recognised for research excellence and innovation”

Broadly, we see our work as a form of Linguistics in Action, guided by our aims of affecting change and leading developments in social justice. In response to these aims, our work addresses a number of key research areas through a linguistic lens:

artificial intelligence
climate change
cognition
communication
education
gender
global crises
identity
knowledge construction
language variation
linguistic diversity
manipulation and deception
methodology and theory
neurodiversity
place
politics
raciolinguistics
social justice

Our work in these areas is underpinned by expertise in sociolinguistics, critical applied linguistics, intercultural communication, pragmatics, discourse analysis, contrastive linguistics, corpus linguistics, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, psycholinguistics, literacies including digital literacies.

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