Linguistics Joint Honours, BA (Hons)
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This course equips you with the tools needed to analyse language and discusses the immense power that language has to construct meaning. Combine Linguistics with another Joint Honours subject to create your perfect degree. Why choose this course?Linguistics is the study of natural language. It covers the study of:
- language structure (grammar)
- meaning (semantics)
- the social functions of language (sociolinguistics).
It is a popular and expanding subject within NTU. This course will equip you with the tools for analysing language and for conducting your own research. You will discuss the immense power that our language has to construct and to constrain meaning.
To study this course you wi…
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Linguistics is the study of natural language. It covers the study of:
- language structure (grammar)
- meaning (semantics)
- the social functions of language (sociolinguistics).
It is a popular and expanding subject within NTU. This course will equip you with the tools for analysing language and for conducting your own research. You will discuss the immense power that our language has to construct and to constrain meaning.
To study this course you will not need any prior knowledge of any of the following:
- grammar
- foreign languages
- technical terminology.
You will be introduced to the fundamentals of language description and to some applications of linguistic theory. Throughout the course you will be introduced to ways in which linguists carry out research. Through this you will learn how to record and transcribe naturally occurring language, how to arrive at a hypothesis and how to test it scientifically.
We have recently launched several new modules which draw on our staff’s own and other contemporary research. This means that you will be studying the very latest developments in clinical linguistics, media discourse and child language acquisition.
Joint honours degree combinations and UCAS codesLinguistics is taken in combination with one or two of the following subjects as part of the BA Joint Honours programme. The number in brackets is the UCAS code for a Joint Honours degree in Linguistics alongside the listed subject:
- Chinese (Mandarin) (TQ11)
- Communication and Society (LQ31)
- English (QQ13)
- Film and TV (PQ3C)
- French (RQ11)
- German (RQ21)
- Global Studies (LQ91)
- History (QV11)
- International Relations (QL12)
- Italian (RQ31)
- Media (PQ31)
- Philosophy (VQ51)
- Spanish (RQ41).
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Linguistics must be combined with another subject to create your degree programme.
Find out more about our degree combinations including Linguistics:
- BA (Hons) English and Linguistics (QQ13)
- BA (Hons) Film and TV and Linguistics (PQ3C)
- BA (Hons) French and Linguistics (RQ11)
- BA (Hons) German and Linguistics (RQ21)
- BA (Hons) Global Studies and Linguistics (LQ91)
- BA (Hons) Italian and Linguistics (RQ31)
- BA (Hons) Linguistics and Communication and Society (LQ31)
- BA (Hons) Linguistics and History (QV11)
- BA (Hons) Linguistics and International Relations (QL12)
- BA (Hons) Linguistics and Media (PQ31)
- BA (Hons) Philosophy and Linguistics (VQ51)
- BA (Hons) Spanish and Linguistics (RQ41)
Our flexible curriculum has been designed to create some amazing opportunities for students in the School of Arts and Humanities. Your second year of study is divided into two semesters that enable students to take part in optional:
- International exchange
- Work placements
- Learn or improve language skills
Gain valuable work experience that will impress employers, learn another language, experience other cultures and travel the globe - all as part of your degree. Our international exchange partners include universities in:
- Australia
- Europe
- USA
- Canada
- Thailand.
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Books and library resources
In our library
you will have access to an extensive and diverse range of books
including those on your reading list. The library also stocks
Literary and Linguistics periodicals. Clifton campus has its own
Blackwell’s Bookshop which stocks relevant academic texts plus a
wide range of bestselling novels.
IT resources
Our IT resource rooms and PC
clusters are distributed across Clifton campus, with PCs providing
access to Microsoft Office, email, web browsing, networked file
storage and high-speed online printing services (with a free
printing allowance for each student). Resource rooms are available
24 hours a day.
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