PhD and M.A. degrees by research
- Applying
- Choosing a thesis topic
- Areas of expertise within the Linguistics Program
- Academic staff in Linguistics and their principal interests
- Contact
Applying
- Any time for PhD candidature.
- For MA: before the last week in October for enrolment the following year (starts late February).
- Overseas students return completed application forms together with proof of English proficiency. For further information, refer to Monash International.
Prospective research students should refer to How to Apply. The first step is to complete the on-line Pre-Application Form.
Choosing a thesis topic
In choosing a thesis topic, prospective candidates should select an area of study that falls within the scope of the expertise available within the department. Members of the Linguistics Program have expertise in the areas of linguistics named in the box over the page. In addition, there is close collaboration with linguists in other programs within the School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics who may have skills not represented within the Linguistics Program. Co-supervision can be arranged where it will be beneficial to a postgraduate student.
Areas of expertise within the Linguistics Program
- anthropological linguistics
- applied linguistics
- Australian Aboriginal languages
- Australian English
- Austronesian languages
- bilingualism and multilingualism
- child language acquisition
- cognitive linguistics
- comparative and contrastive linguistics
- computers in linguistic research
- conversational analysis
- cross-cultural discourse analysis
- cross-cultural communication
- dialectology
- discourse analysis
- English as a Second Language
- functional grammar
- historical linguistics
- immigrant languages
- intercultural communication
- language and discrimination
- language and gender issues
- language and ideology
- language attitudes
- language attrition
- language contact
- language ecology
- language maintenance
- language planning and policy
- language shift
- language typology
- languages for special purposes
- literacy development
- morphology and morphosyntax
- New Englishes
- phonetics (acoustic and articulatory)
- phonology
- politeness phenomena
- pragmatics
- prosody and meaning
- second language acquisition
- semantics
- sociolinguistics
- syntax
Academic staff in Linguistics and their principal interests
Keith Allan
Semantics; pragmatics; discourse analysis; jargon, euphemism and dysphemism; history and philosophy of linguistics; cognitive linguistics.
Heather Bowe
Syntax and language typology; second language acquisition; phonetics and phonology; linguistic issues in cross cultural communication, especially in business; Aboriginal languages.
Julie Bradshaw
Sociolinguistic aspects of second language acquisition; classroom discourse; bilingualism; English in Southeast Asia; community languages and schooling; languages and cultures in contact; language variation; applied linguistics.
Kate Burridge
Euphemism, dysphemism and political correctness; structure and history of English; grammar and sociolinguistics of Pennsylvania German speech communities; Germanic linguistics; historical linguistics.
Margaret Florey
Sociolinguistics; language shift and maintenance; anthropological linguistics; Austronesian languages; Australian languages; language and gender.
Anna Margetts
Morpho-syntax, Austronesian and Papuan languages, language typology, semantics, pragmatics, grammaticalization, discourse analysis, first language acquisition.
Contact
PG Studies Coordinator
Linguistics Program
School of Languages, Cultures &
Linguistics
Monash University, Victoria 3800
Australia
TEL +61(0)3 9905 2223
FAX +61(0)3
9905 5437
EMAIL: ling.enquiry@arts.monash.edu.au