Projects

Browse through our research projects below.

Linguistics in MFL Project

Making the case for the place of linguistics in school-based language teaching and taking positive action to address the crisis in modern foreign languages uptake in schools.

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The semantics of word borrowing in late Medieval English

The context of the semantic borrowing project is a gap in our knowledge about the semantic development of words borrowed from one language into another during the medieval period

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Migrant food, languages, and identities in the dawn of the post-Brexit and COVID-19 era

A study of how migrants who work in Greek and Italian food and hospitality businesses use the languages they speak, the knowledge they have about Greek and Italian food, and their social networks of other migrants.

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Makers, advocates, and users of language policy as co-creators of sociolinguistic research: onward migrants in London

This project will establish the linguistic challenges that onward migrants face in their everyday lives, the linguistic needs that they have, and the extent to which these are known to and met by existing policy makers and policy advocates.

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John of Garland’s Dictionarius

John of Garland’s Dictionarius, a thirteenth-century Latin lexicographic work survives in at least 26 manuscript copies disseminated across England and the Continent.

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Introducing Meaning Studies

This project argues that Semantics fails to embrace entire strands of significant research in language and meaning, such as phraseology, functional grammar and metaphor, while over-emphasising topics of less relevance, such as logic, truth and reference.

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EFFORT Project

The University of Westminster is a partner university in the Erasmus+ project EFFORT (“European Framework for Translation"), which is part of the ongoing Key Action KA2 of the Erasmus+ Strategic Partnerships (Higher Education) programme.

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