MA English Language & Linguistics
Entry requirements
A level: ABB or BBB (Additional requirements: A-level English or another Humanities subject.) IB: 34 (6,5,5) (Additional requirements: English HL6 or Humanities HL6 with English SL6.) Scottish Higher: BBBB is the minimum requirement from S5 to be reviewed for an S6 offer Offers are not guaranteed to applicants who meet the minimum from S5 Typically offers will be made at AAAAB by end of S6. B at Advanced Higher is equivalent to A at Higher Additional requirements: Higher English and a Higher Humanities subject at AA. (AB or BA may be considered). Scottish Higher (widening access): MD20 : BBBB (also other target groups*) MD40 : AABB* Additional requirements: Higher English and a Higher Humanities subject. Successful completion of Top-Up or one of our Summer Schools.
About this course
MA in English Language & Linguistics, a psychology and english language and linguistics degree exploring structural and historical aspects of human communication. Core topics include data analysis and research methods. Students complete an independent dissertation project in the final year. The course begins in the first year with compulsory modules such as English Language & Linguistics 1A: Language, Meaning, and Power and English Language & Linguistics 1B: Language, Society, and Change, establishing foundational concepts in meaning and social context. The second year continues with English Language & Linguistics 2A: Language, People, and Culture and English Language & Linguistics 2B: Language, Mind, and Expression. Later study allows specialisation through optional modules spanning historical texts, phonetics, sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, and lexicography, alongside dissertation options. Representative optional modules include Corpus Linguistics, Phonetics 1: Introductory Concepts, Sociolinguistics, and Introduction to Psycholinguistics.
Modules
- ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS 1A: Language, Meaning, and Power
- ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS 1B: Language, Society, and Change
- ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS 2A: Language, People, and Culture
- ENGLISH LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS 2B: Language, Mind, and Expression
- Contemporary Issues in Semantics
- Corpus Linguistics
- Culture and English Language Teaching
- Dissertation in English Language (40 credits)
- Heroes, Outlaws, and Outsiders: Old English and Old Icelandic Literature in Translation
- Editing Historical English Texts
- History of English
- History of Scots
- Medieval Multitudes: Exploring Middle English Texts
- Medieval Literature: Other Worlds
- Methods in Sociolinguistic Variation
- Name Studies
- Old English Language
- Old Icelandic Language
- Phonetics 1: Introductory Concepts
- Phonetics 2: Advanced Concepts
- Discourse in Professional Contexts
- Reading the Past: From Script to Print
- Semantics of English
- Sociolinguistics
- Reading with Style
- ENGLANG 4056 Honours Core Course
- Dissertation in English Language (20 credits)
- Introduction to Psycholinguistics
- The Language of Laws
- Experimental Design and Data Analysis
- Applied Dissertation with Placement in English Language and Linguistics
- Dictionaries and Thesauruses
- Bad Language: From Taboo to Prescriptivism
- Pragmatics: Language use in context
- Language and Identities