English Language and Linguistics BA (Hons)

Discover how societies communicate and how language shapes our experience of the world around us.<br/><br/>Develop your technical knowledge of language, how it works, and how it is analysed and classified, then use this to understand how language is used in the world around us.<br/><br/>Choose from topics like the use of language in social media or business, how and why language varies in different contexts, and specialist areas such as authorship analysis, language and AI, psycholinguistics, and teaching English as a Foreign Language.<br/><br/><strong>Why study this course?</strong><br/><br/><br/>• Develop your communication skills – understand how language shapes human behaviour, relationships and worldviews.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Explore a broad range of specialisms – choose from areas like historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, discourse analysis, or language and media.<br/><br/><br/><br/>• Access excellent resources including our Linguistics Research Laboratory and online language databases (corpora).<br/><br/><br/><br/>• With our active English Language and Linguistics student community, you’ll enjoy a range of social activities from quizzes to sports matches to a yearly summer ball.<br/><br/><br/><br/><strong>Top 15 for English in the UK in the Complete University Guide 2025</strong><br/><br/><strong>Top 30 in the world for English Language and Literature (QS World Subject Rankings 2025)</strong>