The Philological Society Blog

When I began telling people in Arkansas that I would be coming to Oxford to study philology, I was often met with a follow-up question: “What even is philology?” The term wasn’t one with which many people in the US were familiar; … Continue reading Master’s Bursary – by Isaac Raymond →

What first drew me to linguistics was realising that language is far more than the words we use to communicate. Something as ordinary as having a conversation can be looked at through so many different lenses. How we produce and … Continue reading Master’s Bursary – by Lilian Jaber →

Written by Cosima Hapke (Trinity College Dublin) With great thanks to the Philological Society, the Summer School on the History of English (SSHOE) could take place from the 29th of June to the 3rd of July at the University of Cardiff this … Continue reading Summer School on the History of English (SSHOE) →