BA Hons Linguistics

Are you curious about our most crucially human attribute, language Is a subject that combines the arts and sciences appealing If you ve found yourself asking why or how in relation to language, then Linguistics is for you. Linguistics is the systematic study of human language. Superficially, there s huge variation among the world s languages, and linguists not only describe the diverse characteristics of individual languages but also explore properties which all languages share and which offer insight into the human mind. The study of linguistics draws on methods and knowledge from a wide range of disciplines. For instance, the study of meaning draws on philosophy, the analysis of the speech signal uses methods from physics and engineering, and the study of language acquisition draws on psychology.