Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - Linguistics (Placement Year)

Bangor University

On this Linguistics Bachelor of Arts course, students will learn about, understand and interpret many aspects of human language. They will study the ‘science’ behind language, including possible sounds used in speech and their combination (phonetics, phonology), how words are built up morphology), what distinguishes sentences from just strings of words (syntax), meaning (semantics and pragmatics), the effect that society, culture and norms have upon language use (sociolinguistics) and how languages change over time.

Linguistics as a subject has been taught at Bangor University since the 1960s, making the department one of the first linguistics departments in the United Kingdom.

Linguistics, like all the sciences, involves the systematic study of the patterns and regularities found in data. In the case of Linguistics, the data involves speech and language, something all humans possess and something that is central to students' identity and existence.