I have completed my M.A. in English . I am interested in pragmatics and critical discourse analysis. I want to pursue my M.Phil (linguistics) in these areas in UK. What are the good universities that I can apply to? Please reply..

Lancaster University has a strong record in CDA and pragmatics. Ruth Wodak, the queen bee of CDA, works there and Norman Fairclough is emeritus professor. They also have good lecturers/potential supervisors in pragmatics - Mick Short, (he's a national teaching fellow, I think), Elena Semino and Jonathan Culpeper.

Lancaster University does not seem to advertise itself very well, but it has a great reputation in this area of Linguistics.

Lancaster is in the north west of England and quite small, so it would be cheaper to live in than London, but it's on the main train line so is well connected for getting to London, Manchester and Scotland.