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Linguistics and English Language - Lancaster University

3rd

In the UK for Linguistics,

Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2025

3rd

In the UK for Linguistics,

Complete University Guide 2025

3rd

In the world for Linguistics,

QS World Subject Rankings 2024

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Our Research

For the last fifty years, we have been known for cutting-edge empirically-based theoretical and applied research in a wide range of research areas. We constantly strive to make links with potential users of our work.
Research Centres and Groups

The department hosts active research groups in areas such as cognitive linguistics, corpus studies, discourse analysis, forensic linguistics, language testing, literacy, phonetics, and second language learning and teaching.
Research Facilities

The Department has outstanding research resources. We have fully equipped laboratories for eye-tracking, phonetics, EEG (Electroencephalography) and child language analysis.