Linguistics and Social Anthropology, MA (Hons)

Course summary

MA (Hons) Linguistics and Social Anthropology is a joint programme where you will examine human culture and communication through time. Linguistics explores how language works. It describes how we create meaning through:

• sounds

• words

• sentences

• conversations

It also studies:

• the uses of language in everyday life

• ways in which language varies across society and evolves over time

• how language is mastered by children

Social anthropologySocial anthropology is the study of human behaviour in living societies. Understanding a living society and its members involves participant observation. This means spending many months, or even years, living with and sharing the experiences of the people being studied.

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