本课程旨在提高您对语言（尤其是英语）的工作方式的了解，使您能够准确，有洞察力地描述和分析英语和其他语言。您将对语音和语音，语法，语义和语用学有深入的了解，并探索如何将该知识应用于口头和书面，文学和非文学文本的实际分析。我们特别强调在现实环境中分析语言。模块反映了员工的专业知识，这意味着您将有机会参与您感兴趣的领域的前沿研究。我们拥有一个由国内外学生组成的充满活力的研究社区，他们经常合作开展项目，并在我们年度研究生会议的支持环境中介绍他们的工作。我们举办定期的研究研讨会计划，并由教职员工，学生和来访的演讲者
This course is designed to develop your knowledge of how language works, in particular the English language, enabling you to describe and analyse English and other languages with accuracy and insight. You'll gain a solid understanding of phonetics and phonology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and explore how that knowledge can be applied to the practical analysis of spoken and written, literary and non-literary texts. We place particular emphasis on analysing language in real-world contexts. Modules reflect staff expertise, which means you have the opportunity to engage with cutting-edge research in your area of interest. We have a vibrant research community of national and international students, who often collaborate on projects and present their work within the supportive environment of our annual postgraduate conference. We hold a regular research seminar programme, with presentations by staff, students and visiting guest speakers, and organise and host conferences reflecting our own research interests. Our staff have links with scholars at many top-ranking universities worldwide, from the United States of America to the Far East. Members of staff are on the committees of significant professional organisations (such as PALA – the Poetics and Linguistics Association - and edit major journals such as the leading stylistics journal, Language and Literature.