Department of English

MAJOR RESEARCH AREAS OF THE DEPARTMENT

The Department has an active research culture and strives to connect research with teaching. Staff members are active in international research communities and also aim to benefit local communities through knowledge transfer.

Linguistics and language studies
Sociolinguistics (e.g. language and identity, language ideologies) Discourse analysis (including multimodal and critical discourse analysis) Corpus linguistics English in the world: World Englishes, English as a lingua franca English language teaching and testing Linguistic landscapes Health communication Metaphor theory

Literature
Contemporary fiction, drama and poetry Transpacific literature Global literatures in English Literature and adaptation Semiotics Tragic drama and discourse on tragedy Travel writing Twentieth-century American literature

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MAJOR RESEARCH AREAS OF THE DEPARTMENT