Why is the Georgetown University Linguistics Department a good place to study language and communication?
The Linguistics Department at Georgetown University is unsurpassed in the areas of Discourse Analysis, Sociolinguistics and Pragmatics. Evidence of this abounds through the achievements and reputations of our faculty. (See below Q/A Can you describe some of the faculty who will teach Basic and Advanced courses?). Our department is unique in the breadth of areas in which our faculty and students specialize, so it’s an exciting place to study. In addition, our programs in Sociolinguistics and Applied Linguistics are especially large and lively, and our faculty in Sociolinguistics have a range of specializations, from discourse analysis to quantitative sociolinguistics. Some of our areas of interest include language and family, language and medicine, language and the law, narrative analysis, stylistic variation, linguistic performance, language and dialect endangerment and death, and language and gender. We are also conducting a large-scale study of language and dialect variation, and lan
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