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MResAnalysing Language Use

University of Essex
United Kingdom, Colchester
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Overview

Interested? To learn more about this study programme, entry requirements and application process, please contact one of our consultants in a country nearest to you.

Programme structure

Year 1

Dissertation (Research)
CA I – Conversation and Social Interaction (optional)
Language and Sex (optional)
Pragmatics: Discourse and Rhetoric (optional)
Sociolinguistic Methods 1: Data Collection (optional)
Sociolinguistic Methods: Data Coding and Analysis (optional)
Variationist Sociolinguistic Theory (optional)
Varieties of English (optional)
Variation in English II (optional)

Career opportunities

On our course you develop key employability skills including thinking analytically, research design, data collection using quantitative and qualitative methods, data analysis and essay writing. Our course can lead to a career in areas such as academia, secondary school teaching, forensics, publishing, administration, and public service.

Within our Department of Language and Linguistics, we also offer supervision for PhD and MPhil. We offer supervision in areas including language acquisition, language learning and language teaching, culture and communication, psycholinguistics, language disorders, sociolinguistics, and theoretical and descriptive linguistics.

Apply now! Fall semester 2023/24
Application period has ended
Notes
Please see the university profile or contact us for the deadlines that apply to you
Apply now! Fall semester 2023/24
Application period has ended
Notes
Please see the university profile or contact us for the deadlines that apply to you