Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics, University of Oxford
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The Faculty of Linguistics, Philology & Phonetics is a department of the University of Oxford
, headed by Aditi Lahiri
. It was created in 2008, uniting the discipline which had previously been studied across a variety of other departments. It is part of Oxford's Humanities Division
.
Research is currently in the following areas:
University of Oxford
The University of Oxford is a university located in Oxford, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest surviving university in the world and the oldest in the English-speaking world. Although its exact date of foundation is unclear, there is evidence of teaching as far back as 1096...
, headed by Aditi Lahiri
Aditi Lahiri
Aditi Lahiri is an India born German linguist at the University of Oxford. She received the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 2000.-Early life:She was educated at the Bethune College, and later at the University of Calcutta...
. It was created in 2008, uniting the discipline which had previously been studied across a variety of other departments. It is part of Oxford's Humanities Division
Humanities Division, University of Oxford
The Humanities Division is one of the four Divisions into which the activities of the University are grouped. Each Division has a Head and an elected board. The current Head is Professor Sally Shuttleworth. It has received considerable praise for its work at the forefront of digitising the Humanities...
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Research is currently in the following areas:
- Linguistic Theory
- Comparative PhilologyPhilologyPhilology is the study of language in written historical sources; it is a combination of literary studies, history and linguistics.Classical philology is the philology of Greek and Classical Latin...
- PhoneticsPhoneticsPhonetics is a branch of linguistics that comprises the study of the sounds of human speech, or—in the case of sign languages—the equivalent aspects of sign. It is concerned with the physical properties of speech sounds or signs : their physiological production, acoustic properties, auditory...
and PhonologyPhonologyPhonology is, broadly speaking, the subdiscipline of linguistics concerned with the sounds of language. That is, it is the systematic use of sound to encode meaning in any spoken human language, or the field of linguistics studying this use... - Romance Philology (Research Centre on Romance Linguistics)
- SociolinguisticsSociolinguisticsSociolinguistics is the descriptive study of the effect of any and all aspects of society, including cultural norms, expectations, and context, on the way language is used, and the effects of language use on society...
- History of Linguistics