12 monthsProgramme duration
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Programme overview
Main Subject
English Language and Literature
Degree
MA
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
Why Lancaster?
The combination of core and optional modules means you gain essential knowledge of linguistics but are free to focus on specialist topics that are of interest to you. Choose to study topics including:
There are also opportunities to get involved in organising and present your own work at the annual Lancaster Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference.
A supportive environment It’s not just an exciting academic environment you’ll be in but a friendly and supportive one too.
You’ll be assigned an individual advisor who provides one-to-one support and guidance throughout your degree.
In the second half of your programme, you’re assigned a dissertation supervisor who will help you produce a larger piece of work in a specialist area of your choosing.
Throughout your degree, there are recurrent workshops to help you develop additional skills you might need, including in academic writing and research methods.
- Lancaster is one of the best places in the world to study language and linguistics according to the QS World Rankings
- Study in one of the largest centres for language and linguistics in the UK with academics specialising in a broad range of different areas
- Learn from world-leading experts in fields including corpus-linguistics, cognitive linguistics, critical discourse studies, forensic linguistics, language acquisition, phonetics and bilingualism
- Benefit from our cutting-edge laboratory facilities, including our Phonetics Lab, our Eye-tracking Lab, and our Brain and Bilingual Experience Lab
The combination of core and optional modules means you gain essential knowledge of linguistics but are free to focus on specialist topics that are of interest to you. Choose to study topics including:
- Language acquisition and processing in the brain
- Language and society
- Political and media communication
- Meaning in interaction
- Figurative thought and language
- Language and AI
- Computer-assisted analysis of large-scale language data
- Language as evidence in criminal investigations
There are also opportunities to get involved in organising and present your own work at the annual Lancaster Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference.
A supportive environment It’s not just an exciting academic environment you’ll be in but a friendly and supportive one too.
You’ll be assigned an individual advisor who provides one-to-one support and guidance throughout your degree.
In the second half of your programme, you’re assigned a dissertation supervisor who will help you produce a larger piece of work in a specialist area of your choosing.
Throughout your degree, there are recurrent workshops to help you develop additional skills you might need, including in academic writing and research methods.
Programme overview
Main Subject
English Language and Literature
Degree
MA
Study Level
Masters
Study Mode
On Campus
Why Lancaster?
The combination of core and optional modules means you gain essential knowledge of linguistics but are free to focus on specialist topics that are of interest to you. Choose to study topics including:
There are also opportunities to get involved in organising and present your own work at the annual Lancaster Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference.
A supportive environment It’s not just an exciting academic environment you’ll be in but a friendly and supportive one too.
You’ll be assigned an individual advisor who provides one-to-one support and guidance throughout your degree.
In the second half of your programme, you’re assigned a dissertation supervisor who will help you produce a larger piece of work in a specialist area of your choosing.
Throughout your degree, there are recurrent workshops to help you develop additional skills you might need, including in academic writing and research methods.
- Lancaster is one of the best places in the world to study language and linguistics according to the QS World Rankings
- Study in one of the largest centres for language and linguistics in the UK with academics specialising in a broad range of different areas
- Learn from world-leading experts in fields including corpus-linguistics, cognitive linguistics, critical discourse studies, forensic linguistics, language acquisition, phonetics and bilingualism
- Benefit from our cutting-edge laboratory facilities, including our Phonetics Lab, our Eye-tracking Lab, and our Brain and Bilingual Experience Lab
The combination of core and optional modules means you gain essential knowledge of linguistics but are free to focus on specialist topics that are of interest to you. Choose to study topics including:
- Language acquisition and processing in the brain
- Language and society
- Political and media communication
- Meaning in interaction
- Figurative thought and language
- Language and AI
- Computer-assisted analysis of large-scale language data
- Language as evidence in criminal investigations
There are also opportunities to get involved in organising and present your own work at the annual Lancaster Linguistics and English Language Postgraduate Conference.
A supportive environment It’s not just an exciting academic environment you’ll be in but a friendly and supportive one too.
You’ll be assigned an individual advisor who provides one-to-one support and guidance throughout your degree.
In the second half of your programme, you’re assigned a dissertation supervisor who will help you produce a larger piece of work in a specialist area of your choosing.
Throughout your degree, there are recurrent workshops to help you develop additional skills you might need, including in academic writing and research methods.
Admission Requirements
3.3+
87+
58+
6.5+
2:2 Hons degree (UK or equivalent) in a related subject is normally required. We will also consider applications where you have a degree in other subjects and/or extensive relevant experience. In these cases, you should clearly demonstrate how your experience and skills have prepared you for postgraduate study.
Please see our website for more details.
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