Our community of PhD students is very active and vibrant, and their research findings have reached far and wide this semester!. These are some of the latest academic presentations by the department’s doctoral researchers since September 2023.

Doctoral researcher Vicki Noble joined York graduate Danny Bate’s podcast A Language I love is… and discussed some of the unique features of Welsh.

Dr Gustavo Góngora-Goloubintseff, Associate Lecturer in our department, has recently taken part in the Warwick Seminar Series presenting research on Multimodal Discourse Analysis.

New poll reveals overwhelming UK public support for compulsory language learning in schools. Professor Monika Schmid, Head of Department of the Department of Language and Linguistic Science discusses the benefits of learning foreign languages at school – and even earlier.

September 26th is the European Day of Languages, celebrating the diversity of languages in Europe.

York staff, students and associates have had a busy Summer of research. They have made significant paper and poster contributions during two key conferences in the areas of Phonetics, Phonology, and Prosody: IAFPA and ICPhS.

The Department of Language and Linguistic Science has placed 3rd for French, joint 3rd for linguistics and joint 5th in the UK for Iberian Languages in The Times and Sunday Times Good University Guide 2024. The ranking recognises the quality of our courses, and the experiences and opportunities we provide to our students.

The Department of Language and Linguistic Science had a very strong presence at this year's conference of the Linguistic Association of Great Britain in Cambridge earlier this month, with a range of paper presentations.

New published work in the field of Language for Specific Purposes

The results of a nationwide survey have revealed that the Department of Language and Linguistic Science is home to some of the happiest English language, linguistics and Italian studies students in the UK.

York staff/students at the sociolinguistics conference

Launching the fourth edition of the department’s highly popular online learning course in sociolinguistics

Cultural event to promote Japanese culture at the University of York

Department of Language and Linguistic Science subjects at York ranked in the UK Top 10 according to the latest release of the Complete University Guide league tables (2024).

On Friday 28 April 2023 the Department of Language and Linguistic Science hosted its annual Alumni Event ‘What can you do with a degree in Language and Linguistics?’ to showcase to current students the range of different career paths open to language and linguistics graduates.

Linguistics talk at the York Festival of Ideas 2023

On Friday 28 April 2023 the Department of Language and Linguistic Science hosted its annual Alumni Event ‘What can you do with a degree in Language and Linguistics?’ to showcase to current students the range of different career paths open to language and linguistics graduates.

Linguistics at York placed 10th in the UK and in the top 100 in the world according to the latest release of the QS World University Rankings by subject (2023).

The South-East European Research Centre at CITY College (Thessaloniki, Greece) is advertising several PhD positions. These research projects will be co-supervised by academics from Language and Linguistic Science and the Humanities Department at CITY College.

Short courses offered in the Summer Term (May to June) 2023

PASR project welcomes Poppy Welch