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School of English

Bringing together the study of English literature, language and linguistics, we form a community that is unique in the world in its breadth and depth of study of the English language.

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4 February 2020

Sheffield Postgraduate Scholarships

There are 100+ scholarships worth £10,000 each for home students starting a taught postgraduate course in 2020.

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11 February 2020

One day workshop for teachers and researchers: What is grammar and what place does it have in our schools?

Roy Alderton

10 February 2020

Speaker gender and salience in sociolinguistic speech perception: GOOSE-fronting in Standard Southern British English

Dr Roy Alderton discusses speaker gender and speech.

Mariana Cordero Caballero

24 January 2020

School of English student wins Faculty of Arts and Humanities International Masters Scholarship

Mariana Cordero Caballero is currently an MA in Applied Linguistics with TESOL student.

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School of English
Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA

+44 114 222 8480

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