BA (Hons) English Language and Linguistics

The English Language and Linguistics BA (Hons) course offered by Lancaster University provides an innovative and comprehensive approach to studying language in its cultural, social, and professional contexts. This program will help students to develop valuable transferrable skills, including critical thinking, research methods, and argumentation, along with an understanding of how communication works at both, individual and societal level.Course Content: The course educates students about the fundamental structure of language, with a particular focus on English, the sound system (phonetics and phonology), the word-building (morphology), sentence-building (syntax), and meaning (semantics and pragmatics). Students will get an understanding of different varieties of English and how they function in society. They will learn to analyze real-life data such as conversation transcripts or online communications, and about topics which draw on our researchers' expertise such as language and gesture, literacy in school and the workplace, language and gender, language and youth culture, and the teaching of English as a foreign language.Key Modules: The key modules for the course include Understanding Language, Language Puzzles, Structures of English, Discourse Situations, and Varieties of English. Some optional modules include Transcribing Talk, Stylistics, Analysing conversation, Interaction in English, and Social Linguistics.Future Careers: The course can open up various career paths in fields such as teaching, media and journalism, marketing, human resources, and publishing. The program provides a strong foundation for further study in language, linguistics, and other communication-related fields.For more information on this course, please visit the official course page.