York is committed to excellence in research and scholarship in all its forms. Informed by a strong commitment to shared values, including the promotion of social justice, diversity, and the public good, we aspire through our research to better understand the human condition and the world around us and to employ the knowledge we gain in the service of society.
Electronic Theses and Dissertations
Research within the Graduate Program in Linguistics & Applied Linguistics is determined by the proposed projects presented by successful aspirants. Our students complete a thesis and/or dissertation, which then becomes published as "Electronic Theses & Dissertations" and sits as a public document within our institutional repository - YorkSpace.
Graduate Program in Linguistics & Applied Linguistics Electronic Theses
Awards & Recognition
Nicole Hildebrandt-Edgar
Nicole Hildebrandt-Edgar was awarded the award for best student paper at the meeting of the Canadian Linguistics Association for her talk 'I don’t know' in Toronto and Victoria: Comparing analyses of discourse variation.
Gabrielle LaFortune
Gabrielle LaFortune was awarded the Faculty of Graduate Studies Master's Thesis prize for her thesis A Qualitative Study of Anti-Feminist Discursive Strategies in Online Comment Sections, supervised by Professor Susan Ehrlich.
Andrew Peters
Andrew Peters has won the best student paper contest of the Centre for Research on Language and Culture Contact. His paper examines Cantonese-English codemixing on the basis of data from the Toronto Heritage Language Variation and Change corpus, created by Professor Naomi Nagy at the University of Toronto.
Learn More
The Graduate Program in Linguistics & Applied Linguistics at York is an exciting environment to pursue innovative, socially engaging, career-ready education. Contact our Graduate Program Assistant to learn more.