English Linguistics, PhD

Doctoral School: Doctoral School of Linguistics

Doctoral council of disciplinary area: Humanities

Discipline: English linguistics

Research areas:

• Doctoral program of general and applied linguistics
• English linguistics

Duration: 8 semesters

Starting date: September/February

Short description: We are especially interested in syntax, morphology, semantics, and pragmatics; as well as in the more interdisciplinary fields of computational linguistics, discourse analysis, first and second language acquisition, and sociolinguistics. With a firm devotion to linguistic theory, we also welcome and encourage experimental and corpus-driven approaches to the study of language; and though we focus on English, we are also open to other languages of the world.

Only students with a university/MA degree are accepted, based on an interview that evaluates the applicant's scholarly performance, research proposal, and general professional intelligence. Doctoral students may be engaged in teaching in the undergraduate program of the University of Debrecen.

Language requirements: English language proficiency (TOEFL 600 /IELTS 8.0 /oral examination)

Entry requirements:   Relevant master’s degree, research plan

Fees:

Application fee: 150 USD, entrance procedure fee 350 USD

Tuition Fee: 6,500 USD/year

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