Congratulations on your offer to study our MAs Language Teaching and Cultural Diversity!

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* Although this page was up-to-date at the time it was produced, some changes to courses and teaching staff may occur. Please make sure you check the specific course page or contact us directly for the very latest information before you commit yourself to any of our courses.

You can also reach out to the course director Dr Lavanya Sankaran at any time with any questions you may have about studying on the course. 

This reading list includes a list of books and, in case you are unable to get hold of them, also some papers that can be downloaded from the internet. The list provides a background to your studies on the MA in Language and Cultural Diversity, and will be supplemented by bibliographies provided by module tutors during the year.  Some of these titles will be referred to within particular modules, though usually tutors suggest additional reading and supply lecture handouts and materials as per module requirements.  We hope that the list can provide a general overview of the programme and some inspiration to keep you interested before you arrive. 

You can find the reading list here

Watch the recording from our online offer holder event from March 2026. 

The Centre for Language, Discourse and Communication is a globally influential centre for language research with exceptional strengths in discourse studies and sociolinguistics.

The Centre offers extensive research training and supervision on a range of (socio)linguistic methods and frameworks, including: cognitive linguistics, conversation analysis, corpus-assisted discourse studies, discourse & sociolinguistic approaches to social media communication, identities-in-interaction, narrative analysis and small stories research.

Visit the website here to find out more about the research that we do at our dynamic and globally influential research centre. 

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MA Language and Cultural Diversity

Find out what you can expect from the MA in Language and Cultural Diversity.