English Language and Linguistics with Placement Experience

About this course

English language and linguistics is the scientific and humanistic study of language itself: how it is structured, how it is acquired, how it changes over time and varies across communities, and what it reveals about human cognition and social life. Where literature degrees foreground the reading of texts, linguistics foregrounds language as a system and a social phenomenon. You will learn to analyse speech sounds, grammatical structures, meaning, and discourse, and to ask empirical questions about how language actually works in the real world rather than relying on intuition alone. At the University of Reading, this four-year, full-time programme combines the close analysis of linguistic form with attention to language in use, covering areas such as phonology, syntax, semantics, pragmatics, sociolinguistics, and the history of English. You will develop strong research skills in both qua

Where its graduates go

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• 62 / 100Secretarial and related occupations · 5% of graduatescards →
• 55 / 100Administrative occupations · 20% of graduatescards →
• 48 / 100Business and public service associate professionals · 25% of graduatescards →
• 45 / 100Media Professionals · 10% of graduatescards →

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