Linguistics BA Hons
Our Linguistics degree allows you to explore the phenomenon of language, focusing on the sound, grammar and meaning systems of different languages.
Undergraduate Study
As one of the largest departments of Linguistics in the UK, we offer a wide range of BA (Hons) degrees right across the fields of English Language and Linguistics.
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English Language BA Hons
Our English Language degree gives you the opportunity to learn about the structure, history and uses of the English Language.
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English Language and Linguistics BA Hons
Our combined degree in Linguistics and English Language gives you the best of both worlds.
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Language Sciences BSc Hons
Discover the fascinating science of language – from how children acquire language skills to how machines comprehend and produce language.
Flexible programme
A key feature of degree schemes at Lancaster is their flexibility. You take three subjects in your first year, then build on one or more of these in your second and third years when you can choose a wider range of courses. You will be admitted to 'major' in a particular subject, but you can opt to change at the end of your first year if you decide you are better suited to one of your other subjects.
Flexible Programme
Linguistics or English Language?
We offer BA degrees in Linguistics, English Language, and Linguistics and English Language. Which programme is right for you depends on your interests.
Linguistics
Our Linguistics degree is focussed on general principles of language, including its properties, development, variation and use.
English Language
Our English Language degree focusses on how these issues relate to English in particular, including the sounds and structures of English, its history, its regional and global varieties, and its use in areas like politics, the media, and advertising.
Linguistics and English Language
Our combined degree Linguistics and English Language gives you the best of both worlds.
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Facilities
The Department has some outstanding resources. We have fully equipped laboratories for eye-tracking, phonetics, EEG (Electroencephalography) and child language analysis.
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Careers
A degree in English Language or Linguistics equips individuals in a range of skills that set them up for vibrant and exciting careers.
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Internships
All second and third year Linguistics and English Language undergraduates can apply for paid research internships
Study Abroad
We offer a wide range of interesting study-abroad opportunities for undergraduate students who wish to spend a year studying abroad. Credits obtained at a foreign university count towards your Lancaster degree.
We also welcome visiting or exchange students, whether taking courses for one term or longer. You must have completed a year of study at your home university before coming to Lancaster.
Study AbroadMeet our staff
Get to know some members of our staff. In the videos they give brief insights into their research interests and teaching.
Silke Brandt
Dr Silke Brandt discusses child language acquisition and the question of how much innate knowledge children bring to the task and how much they learn from the linguistic environment.
Sam Kirkham
Dr Sam Kirkham discusses articulatory phonetics, demonstrating how ultrasound technology allows us to observe the dance of the tongue during speech production.
Claire Nance
Professor Claire Nance discusses sounds of the world’s languages using ‘r’ as an example, which articulatorily complex and varies in its articulation across different languages.
Chris Hart
Professor Christopher Hart discusses linguistic relativity and the language of Tzeltal, which describes object locations as uphill, downhill or across the hill rather than using words for left and right.
George Brown
Dr George Brown discusses computational linguistics and its contributions to speech technology including text-to-speech conversion and AI.
Claire Hardaker
Dr Claire Hardaker discusses forensic linguistics and the different tasks that forensics linguists perform for the police, including authorship analysis and profiling.
Elena Semino
Professor Elena Semino discusses stylistics, highlighting how linguistic analysis helps us to understand the way poems or novels work in arousing feelings or transporting us to another world.
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