English Language and Linguistics

About this course

Language is the medium through which almost everything in human life is conducted, yet most of us rarely stop to examine how it actually works. English language and linguistics turns that everyday familiarity into a subject of rigorous inquiry, asking how language is structured, how it is learned, how it varies across communities and contexts, how it changes over time, and how it is used to construct meaning, identity, and social relations. It is a discipline that combines the precision of science with the interpretive richness of the humanities, and it trains you to analyse one of the most complex systems human beings have ever produced. At the University of York you will engage with core areas of linguistic inquiry including phonetics and phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics, developing both theoretical frameworks and practical analytical tools. You will work

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