Undergraduates
Degree in Linguistics and Modern Languages
This course allows students to study one modern language alongside linguistics, the study of language itself.
One half of the course focuses on linguistics, where you will be introduced to the analysis of the nature and structure of human language. Topics include:
- the structure and history of languages
- how words are formed, how sentences are constructed, how we make and hear sounds, and how these sounds behave in particular languages
- how age, sex and social status affect language use
- how children learn to speak
- how languages change and how the same language can vary according to where it is spoken
- how words and sentences mean what they mean – and how they sometimes don’t mean what they seem to mean
- how language is used in literature, the media and by various social groups
and what happens to language abilities when the brain is damaged by stroke or injury
READING LIST for FIRST YEAR LINGUISTICS here
The other half of your course will be the Modern Languages course giving you practical linguistic training and an extensive introduction to the literature and thought of the European language you have chosen.
Options in other degrees
A number of options in Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics are offered as part of different degree courses, in various subjects such as:
English, Experimental Psychology, Greats (Classics and Philosophy), Human Sciences, Modern Languages, PPP (Psychology, Philosophy and Physiology) and the various joint schools.
The faculties involved are:
Classics
Experimental Psychology
Oriental Studies
