Linguistics

Investigate how age, gender, social background, and regional origins influence the way we communicate BA Linguistics is a three-year degree, with an optional fourth year for a placement or study abroad, taught at our Colchester campus. Linguistics explores how language works and what it means to “know a language”. You’ll investigate how age, gender, social background, and regional origins influence the way we communicate, how languages change over time, how children acquire language, and why languages differ across the world.

Linguistics is an increasingly important subject with connections to psychology, philosophy, education, and artificial intelligence. Studying language helps us better understand ourselves, our societies, and the ways humans communicate. The discipline has real-world applications in areas such as human rights, computer-assisted language learning, and the analysis of communication in professional settings, including healthcare, legal systems, and institutional interactions.