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Linguistics for social scientists

Explore the reciprocal relationship between language and specific social contexts and structures (class, gender, ethnicity), and study the role that language plays in the creation, maintenance and change of social relations and institutions

Important themes are changing attitudes to language and the prestige afforded to particular languages and language varieties.

The use of language for academic purposes will be analysed, as will be situations of language contact, multilingualism and the role of translation in intercultural and international communication. The implications and consequences for less widely used languages of the emergence of English (and other widely spoken languages) as global lingua francas will be outlined and discussed.

The courses we offer

Linguistics and intercultural communication degree courses