English Language & Linguistics BA (Hons)

This programme enables you to study language from a broad range of perspectives, including the way speech is articulated, how language is structured and related to meaning, and how it relates to speakers’ intentions and purposes in social interaction. As well as studying how speakers and writers use language, you may also study social attitudes to language, and the way language choices can express identities and cultural values.

Everyone uses language, but not everyone knows about language - for example, how we learn language; why our language abilities sometimes fail us; why people might have different views about what is correct; how and why language varies between individuals and in different contexts. If you choose to study our English Language & Linguistics degree, you will learn how to answer these questions, and more. This programme enables you to study language from a broad range of perspectives including the way speech is articulated, how language is structured and related to meaning and how it relates to speakers’ intentions and purposes in social interaction. As well as studying how speakers and writers use language and how it is acquired, processed and used in communicative contexts, linguists also study social attitudes to language and the way language functions to express identities and cultural values. Our programme explores these topics and more through a wide array of modules which may include Language, Gender and Sexuality, Forensic Linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Psycholinguistics, Child Language Acquisition and Speech and Language Pathology.

Program Available At (Campus) - York campus