Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics (CRAL)

Description

The Centre for Research in Applied Linguistics (CRAL) was established in 2002 and is committed to developing world-class research into language use.

Since its establishment over 15 years ago, CRAL has branched out in many different directions and specialises in the following areas of linguistic enquiry:

• Discourse analysis and sociolinguistics
  • Language, gender and sexuality
  • Health communication
  • Professional communication
  • Corpus-based language enquiry
  • Multimodality and corpus linguistics
• Psycholinguistics
  • Psychological aspects of language acquisition and use
  • Multi-word unit formulaic language processing
  • Emotional responses to language
  • Infants and children learning word forms and dialects
• Second language acquisition and language teaching and learning
  • Motivation in the language classroom
  • Vocabulary studies
  • Second language acquisition and pedagogy
  • Corpus linguistics and language teaching
• Stylistics
  • Interfaces of language and literature
  • Stylistics
  • Cognitive Poetics

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

2002

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University affiliation(s)

University of Nottingham
Nottingham