Part A: General linguistics
EIC responsibility: Jim Blevins, Professor of Linguistics, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA Structural linguistics Foundations Probabilistic perspectives Theoretical perspectives Complex systems perspectives Sound patterns Articulatory phonetics Acoustic phonetics Theoretical phonology Laboratory phonology Grammar Derivational morphology Inflectional morphology Word-based models Realizational approaches Models of morphemic analysis Transformational approaches to syntax Constraint-based models of syntax Models of cognitive grammar Meaning Sentential semantics Lexical semantics Distributional semantics Pragmatics and communication Semiotics Dimensions of linguistic variation Diachrony and language evolution Historical linguistics Analogy Diachronic perspectives on synchronic systems Language evolution Typology and universals Typological traditions Typological resources The status of language universals History of ideas History of linguistics Greco-Roman linguistics Sanskrit grammarians European structuralism American descriptivism Generative linguistics Empiricist approaches
Part B: Applied linguistics and sociolinguistics
EIC responsible: Hilary Nesi, Professor in English Language, Coventry University, UK Applied Linguistics Overview and history Critical applied linguistics Applied linguistics in various parts of the world (Africa, S.Asia, China, S.E Asia, N America, S, America, Europe, Australasia) Linguistic anthropology Descriptive linguistics Ethnography Field linguistics Language contact, language change Indigenous Languages Gender and sexuality Identity ideology, linguistic ethnonationalism Speech genres in cultural practice Taboo Language and society Language policy and planning, lingua franca, English as an international language Language education policies, general and regional Migration and language Gender-specific language Discourse communities and communities of practice Subcultures and counter-cultures Linguistic rights, discrimination Language use in primary, secondary and tertiary education Cross-cultural pragmatics, language identity, language socialization Contributions of civilisations to language and discourses (e.g. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B0080448542047210 ) Education and language Mother tongue language education - curriculum content, teacher preparation Education and standard and non-standard varieties - grammar, correctness, purism Language education and social justice Communicative competence Culture and language education Pedagogical grammars Second and foreign language learning and teaching Second and foreign language teaching technologies Second and foreign language curriculum development Second and foreign language assessment Second and foreign language teacher preparation Teaching minority languages Immigrant language education Languages for specific purposes Corpus Linguistics Types of language corpora Corpus linguistic techniques Corpus linguistic studies of language variation 2nd language corpus studies Language in: Business Genres of business communication Advertising and marketing Traditional advertising methods Advertising and the new media Wordplay Marketing semiotics, brands and logos Education Educational linguistics, history, lines of enquiry (SFL etc) Law Legal genres Language of legal texts Language of the lawcourt Language of the police Applied forensic linguistics Media Methods of analysis Types of media (radio, TV, press, computer-mediated) Media genres (documentary, news, sports broadcasting, documentary) Media and panics, bias, spread of information Medicine Inter- and Intra- professional communication Written medical discourse Oral medical discourse Medical communication skills training Politics Genres in political discourse The language of politics and diplomacy Political rhetoric Parliamentary discourse The role of the internet in political discourse Religion Genres of religious language Sacred texts Religious beliefs about language Religion and the spread of literacy Ritual language Religious languages (e.g. Sanskrit, Hebrew, of the Bible, Koran,) Literature Literary language and literary discourse National literatures Methods of studying the language of literature, e.g. metaphor. narrative. narratology, reader research, reader response, schema theory, stylistics, thematics Invented languages in literature The language of children's literature Science and Technology Genres of scientific and technical discourse Audiences for scientific and technical discourse Grammatical characteristics of scientific and technical discourse terminology Acquisition of other languages Models of second language acquisition Second language acquisition research methods Second language listening, speaking, reading, writing Phonology, morphology, syntax Second language vocabulary acquisition Motivation Attrition 3rd language acquisition Acquisition of the mother tongue Models of language acquisition and language development Language acquisition research methods Language development in infancy, school-age children, adolescents, adults Discourse, pragmatic, narrative development Bilingual language development Language disorders, dementia, recovery after injury Language development and education of the deaf, blind
Part C: Data-driven and cross-disciplinary language research
EIC responsible: Petar Milin, Senior Lecturer in the Psychology of Language and Language Learning, University of Birmingham, UK Linguistic/Language data and resources Resources of Distributed Semantic Models (DSM) Resources from General Psychology and Cognitive Psychology (experimental) Resources from Educational Psychology and Pedagogy (normative, survey-based) Usage-based linguistics Cognitive Linguistics Emergentism (e.g., McClelland, Tomaselo, Bybee etc.; also, diachronic work) Network approach (including CAS) Interactions with Engineering and Computer Sciences Speech technology Machine translation Natural language processing Corpus-linguistics (in relations with data and resources) Interactions with Neurobiology and Psychology Neurolinguistics Brain and language Psychology of language (including modelling) Psycholinguistics Interactions with Mathematics and Physics Quantitative Linguistics Probability Theory and Statistics in language research Interactions with Physics
Part D: Discourse, text analysis and stylistics
EIC: divided equally between 3 other EICs translation lexicography discourse and conversation analysis the analysis of written discourse (genre analysis) accent, dialect and register philosophy and language animal communication Languages of the world Writing systems Corpus linguistics Stylistics
