About Us

Housed in the NTNU Department of English, the Linguistics Group is devoted to the scientific study of language. Our students receive a solid training in basic areas such as phonetics, phonology, syntax, and semantics. The groundwork will serve as a foundation for empirical studies in other subfields, including language acquisition, discourse analysis, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, neurolinguistics, corpus linguistics, computational linguistics, etc. In addition to courses at the undergraduate level, the linguistics track offers a broad graduate training program leading to the MA or PhD degree. Through coursework and research, students learn how languages are structured and change, how language is represented in the brain and acquired by children, what language tells us about human societies and cultures, and in this 'Age of Big Data,' how computational tools and methods can be used to process volumes of texts and speech data.

Notably, ‘NTNU Linguistics’ is ranked 48th out of 200 programs in the QS World University Rankings for 2017 (NTNU Office of Research & Development Press Release). With its inclusion in the THCI-Level 1, our journal, Concentric: Studies in Linguistics, has continually been recognized for its excellence by the Ministry of Education (MOE) in Taiwan, specifically in the field of linguistics. The journal is also included in other major international indexing and abstracting services such as SCOPUS and Emerging Sources of Citation Index (ESCI).

As part of the English Department that also houses the literature and TESOL tracks, the linguistics track contributes to a vibrant intellectual community that is committed to excellence in research, teaching, and mentoring. There is much student interaction between the three tracks, as well as some teaching and research collaborations.