语言学是一门越来越重要的学科，它影响着心理学，哲学，教育和人工智能领域。它在诸如人权，计算机辅助语言学习以及在医患互动，访调员与被访者对话以及法庭交流等环境中研究机构语言等各种领域中都有实际应用。我们的课程为您提供扎实的语言学基础，同时仍然允许您进行大量个人选择。您将探索语言学的各种核心主题，掌握语音，语音，形态，语法，语义和语用学的关键概念，并研究以下领域：多语言论语言，身份和性别隐喻，反讽和风格语言和思维语言失利
Linguistics is an increasingly important subject, impacting on areas in psychology, philosophy, education and artificial intelligence. It has real-world applications in such diverse fields as human rights, computer-assisted language learning, and the study of institutional language in settings like doctor-patient interactions, interviewer-interviewee dialogues, and courtroom exchanges.<br><br>Our course offers you a solid grounding in linguistics, while still allowing for a large amount of personal choice. You explore a wide range of core topics in linguistics, mastering key concepts in phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and also investigate specialist areas including:Multilingualism, Language and Gender, Language and the mind, Conversation and Social Interaction<br><br><br>Enhance your degree and demonstrate your quantitative skills with Q-Step. By following the Q-Step pathway of modules within your existing course, you will graduate from Essex with a qualifier award at the end of your degree, signalling to employers your capability in highly sought after quantitative research skills.<br>Studying language and linguistics allows you to develop your research and IT skills by collecting and analysing linguistic data using state-of-the-art technology, and a combination of team-work and independent projects enhances your communication, problem-solving, and management skills.<br>Our graduates have gone on to have careers in a wide variety of fields, including teaching, journalism,, advertising, marketing, travel, communications, publishing, speech and language therapy, and business administration.