Welcome to the home page of the Linguistics Council,
representing general and applied linguistics in UK Higher Education.
The Council was established in 2009, to provide a unified voice on public policy matters for linguistics within the UK higher education community. The Linguistics Council links together major learned societies and associations in the field, with the following aims:
representing general and applied linguistics in UK Higher Education.
The Council was established in 2009, to provide a unified voice on public policy matters for linguistics within the UK higher education community. The Linguistics Council links together major learned societies and associations in the field, with the following aims:
- to promote research, teaching and learning, and scholarship in general and applied linguistics;
- to promote co-operation and co-ordination, and the sharing of expertise and good practice, between institutions, learned societies, professional associations and related bodies in the area of general and applied linguistics;
- to support and promote the health and sustainability of general and applied linguistics;
- to represent general and applied linguistics in the co-ordination and formulation of policies and their adoption by appropriate national and international agencies.
