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University of Glasgow: Speech, Language and Sociolinguistics
| Institution | University of Glasgow View institution profile |
|---|---|
| Department | College of Arts and Humanities |
| Web | glasgow.ac.uk |
| Jane.Stuart-Smith@glasgow.ac.uk | |
| Study type | Taught |
MSc
Summary
This Masters will enable you to explore the links between producing and processing speech and language as part of everyday social interaction. The range of courses available for this programme provide the key linguistic, technical, and research skills to investigate different aspects of spoken and written language, to carry out your own sociolinguistic studies, and to design and implement speech and language experiments of your own.
WHY THIS PROGRAMME
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This programme is suitable for students who have little or no background in linguistics and also for students with some background who wish to carry out more sophisticated independent research in a particular area.
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You'll be taught by expert academic staff who have directed and are currently directing research projects in speech, language and sociolinguistics (e.g. Seeing Speech, Sounds of the City, One Speaker Two Dialects, the Scots Syntax Atlas (SCOSYA), Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS), and SPeech Across Dialects of English (SPADE)).
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Our facilities include the Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics (GULP), which includes a speech recording studio, eyetracker and portable ultrasound, and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH), providing you with relevant training courses for graduate students in speech, language and sociolinguistics.
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English Language and Linguistics is currently within the Linguistics pathway for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnership, which is based at the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS). The SGSSS offers excellent additional training courses for graduate students working in the social sciences in Scotland.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
You will take: - Two core courses
-
One topics course in Phonetics or Sociolinguistics
-
One methods course in Phonetics or Sociolinguistics
-
Two optional courses
You will also produce an independent, small-scale research project.
Semester 1: September to December
Core Course Research Training Course 1: Introduction to Research
Topics course Choose one of the following: Introduction to Phonetics (PGT) Quantitative Sociolinguistics Topics in Phonetics Qualitative Sociolinguistics
Optional course Choose one optional course. Recommended courses include: Introduction to Phonetics (PGT) Quantitative Sociolinguistics Topics in Phonetics Semantics of English (PGT) Forensic Linguistics Social and Individual Variables in Language Learning and Teaching Qualitative Sociolinguistics
Semester 2: January to March
Core Courses Research Training Course 2: Dissertation Preparation Experimental Design and Data Analysis
Methods Course Choose one of the following: Methods in Phonetics (PGT) Methods in Sociolinguistics (PGT)
Optional course Choose one optional course. Recommended courses include: Methods in Phonetics (PGT) Methods in Sociolinguistics (PGT) Corpus Linguistics (PGT) Onomastics Contemporary Issues in Semantics (PGT) Critical Approaches to Language and Communication Multilingualism: Individuals, Institutions and Society
Summer: April to September Speech, Language & Sociolinguistics Dissertation
CAREER PROSPECTS
Some students take our programme as a secondment from an ongoing teaching or professional education position. Others continue into employment in language teaching, journalism, or other kinds of industrial or commercial research. The programme is also an excellent foundation to doctoral research, and/or further training in speech and language therapy.
| Level | SCQF Level 11 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | 2.1 Hons (or non-UK equivalent) in Linguistics or English or other Modern Languages or Psychology or English Language Teaching or Computing Science or any other relevant subject. We may also accept degrees in any other subject. Please include a short personal statement of approximately 200 words, outlining your interest in the programme. We also require a sample of written work, approximately 2,000 words in length written in English. While the content does not need to relate specifically to this programme, it should demonstrate the potential to engage successfully with postgraduate-level studies, demonstrating analytical skills and familiarity with appropriate scholarly methods and conventions. This could be a piece of work from a previous degree. |
| Location | Gilmorehill (Main) Campus University Of Glasgow University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ |
Summary
This Masters will enable you to explore the links between producing and processing speech and language as part of everyday social interaction. The range of courses available for this programme provide the key linguistic, technical, and research skills to investigate different aspects of spoken and written language, to carry out your own sociolinguistic studies, and to design and implement speech and language experiments of your own.
WHY THIS PROGRAMME
-
This programme is suitable for students who have little or no background in linguistics and also for students with some background who wish to carry out more sophisticated independent research in a particular area.
-
You'll be taught by expert academic staff who have directed and are currently directing research projects in speech, language and sociolinguistics (e.g. Seeing Speech, Sounds of the City, One Speaker Two Dialects, the Scots Syntax Atlas (SCOSYA), Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS), and SPeech Across Dialects of English (SPADE)).
-
Our facilities include the Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics (GULP), which includes a speech recording studio, eyetracker and portable ultrasound, and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH), providing you with relevant training courses for graduate students in speech, language and sociolinguistics.
-
English Language and Linguistics is currently within the Linguistics pathway for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnership, which is based at the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS). The SGSSS offers excellent additional training courses for graduate students working in the social sciences in Scotland.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
You will take: - Two core courses
-
One topics course in Phonetics or Sociolinguistics
-
One methods course in Phonetics or Sociolinguistics
-
Two optional courses
You will also produce an independent, small-scale research project.
Semester 1: September to December
Core Course Research Training Course 1: Introduction to Research
Topics course Choose one of the following: Introduction to Phonetics (PGT) Quantitative Sociolinguistics Topics in Phonetics Qualitative Sociolinguistics
Optional course Choose one optional course. Recommended courses include: Introduction to Phonetics (PGT) Quantitative Sociolinguistics Topics in Phonetics Semantics of English (PGT) Forensic Linguistics Social and Individual Variables in Language Learning and Teaching Qualitative Sociolinguistics
Semester 2: January to March
Core Courses Research Training Course 2: Dissertation Preparation Experimental Design and Data Analysis
Methods Course Choose one of the following: Methods in Phonetics (PGT) Methods in Sociolinguistics (PGT)
Optional course Choose one optional course. Recommended courses include: Methods in Phonetics (PGT) Methods in Sociolinguistics (PGT) Corpus Linguistics (PGT) Onomastics Contemporary Issues in Semantics (PGT) Critical Approaches to Language and Communication Multilingualism: Individuals, Institutions and Society
Summer: April to September Speech, Language & Sociolinguistics Dissertation
CAREER PROSPECTS
Some students take our programme as a secondment from an ongoing teaching or professional education position. Others continue into employment in language teaching, journalism, or other kinds of industrial or commercial research. The programme is also an excellent foundation to doctoral research, and/or further training in speech and language therapy.
| Level | SCQF Level 11 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | 2.1 Hons (or non-UK equivalent) in Linguistics or English or other Modern Languages or Psychology or English Language Teaching or Computing Science or any other relevant subject. We may also accept degrees in any other subject. Please include a short personal statement of approximately 200 words, outlining your interest in the programme. We also require a sample of written work, approximately 2,000 words in length written in English. While the content does not need to relate specifically to this programme, it should demonstrate the potential to engage successfully with postgraduate-level studies, demonstrating analytical skills and familiarity with appropriate scholarly methods and conventions. This could be a piece of work from a previous degree. |
| Location | Gilmorehill (Main) Campus University Of Glasgow University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ |
Summary
This Masters will enable you to explore the links between producing and processing speech and language as part of everyday social interaction. The range of courses available for this programme provide the key linguistic, technical, and research skills to investigate different aspects of spoken and written language, to carry out your own sociolinguistic studies, and to design and implement speech and language experiments of your own.
WHY THIS PROGRAMME
-
This programme is suitable for students who have little or no background in linguistics and also for students with some background who wish to carry out more sophisticated independent research in a particular area.
-
You'll be taught by expert academic staff who have directed and are currently directing research projects in speech, language and sociolinguistics (e.g. Seeing Speech, Sounds of the City, One Speaker Two Dialects, the Scots Syntax Atlas (SCOSYA), Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS), and SPeech Across Dialects of English (SPADE)).
-
Our facilities include the Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics (GULP), which includes a speech recording studio, eyetracker and portable ultrasound, and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH), providing you with relevant training courses for graduate students in speech, language and sociolinguistics.
-
English Language and Linguistics is currently within the Linguistics pathway for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnership, which is based at the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS). The SGSSS offers excellent additional training courses for graduate students working in the social sciences in Scotland.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
You will take: - Two core courses
-
One topics course in Phonetics or Sociolinguistics
-
One methods course in Phonetics or Sociolinguistics
-
Two optional courses
You will also produce an independent, small-scale research project.
Semester 1: September to December
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS - RESEARCH TRAINING (core course)
Topics course (choose one of the following): INTRODUCTION TO PHONETICS (PGT) INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLINGUISTICS (PGT) TOPICS IN PHONETICS TOPICS IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Optional course
Semester 2: January to March
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND DATA ANALYSIS (core course)
Methods course (choose one of the following): METHODS IN PHONETICS (PGT) METHODS IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS (PGT)
Optional course
Summer: April to September
SPEECH, LANGUAGE & SOCIOLINGUISTICS DISSERTATION
Optional Courses
Recommended courses include:
Semester 1 INTRODUCTION TO PHONETICS (PGT) INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLINGUISTICS (PGT) TOPICS IN PHONETICS TOPICS IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLINGUISTICS (PGT) ONOMASTICS SEMANTICS OF ENGLISH (PGT)
Semester 2 METHODS IN PHONETICS (PGT) METHODS IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS (PGT) CORPUS LINGUISTICS (PGT) LANGUAGE AND THE GLOBAL CAMPUS: LINGUISTIC ISSUES IN THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION CRITICAL APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION METHODS IN WRITTEN TEXT ANALYSIS MULTILINGUALISM: INDIVIDUALS, INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY
| Level | SCQF Level 11 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | Entry requirements for postgraduate taught programmes are a 2.1 Honours degree or equivalent qualification (for example, GPA 3.0 or above) in a relevant subject unless otherwise specified. |
| Location | Gilmorehill (Main) Campus University Of Glasgow University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ |
Summary
This Masters will enable you to explore the links between producing and processing speech and language as part of everyday social interaction. The range of courses available for this programme provide the key linguistic, technical, and research skills to investigate different aspects of spoken and written language, to carry out your own sociolinguistic studies, and to design and implement speech and language experiments of your own.
WHY THIS PROGRAMME
-
This programme is suitable for students who have little or no background in linguistics and also for students with some background who wish to carry out more sophisticated independent research in a particular area.
-
You'll be taught by expert academic staff who have directed and are currently directing research projects in speech, language and sociolinguistics (e.g. Seeing Speech, Sounds of the City, One Speaker Two Dialects, the Scots Syntax Atlas (SCOSYA), Scottish Corpus of Texts and Speech (SCOTS), and SPeech Across Dialects of English (SPADE)).
-
Our facilities include the Glasgow University Laboratory of Phonetics (GULP), which includes a speech recording studio, eyetracker and portable ultrasound, and the Scottish Graduate School for Arts and Humanities (SGSAH), providing you with relevant training courses for graduate students in speech, language and sociolinguistics.
-
English Language and Linguistics is currently within the Linguistics pathway for the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Doctoral Training Partnership, which is based at the Scottish Graduate School of Social Science (SGSSS). The SGSSS offers excellent additional training courses for graduate students working in the social sciences in Scotland.
PROGRAMME STRUCTURE
You will take: - Two core courses
-
One topics course in Phonetics or Sociolinguistics
-
One methods course in Phonetics or Sociolinguistics
-
Two optional courses
You will also produce an independent, small-scale research project.
Semester 1: September to December
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS - RESEARCH TRAINING (core course)
Topics course (choose one of the following): INTRODUCTION TO PHONETICS (PGT) INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLINGUISTICS (PGT) TOPICS IN PHONETICS TOPICS IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS
Optional course
Semester 2: January to March
EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN AND DATA ANALYSIS (core course)
Methods course (choose one of the following): METHODS IN PHONETICS (PGT) METHODS IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS (PGT)
Optional course
Summer: April to September
SPEECH, LANGUAGE & SOCIOLINGUISTICS DISSERTATION
Optional Courses
Recommended courses include:
Semester 1 INTRODUCTION TO PHONETICS (PGT) INTRODUCTION TO SOCIOLINGUISTICS (PGT) TOPICS IN PHONETICS TOPICS IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS INTRODUCTION TO PSYCHOLINGUISTICS (PGT) ONOMASTICS SEMANTICS OF ENGLISH (PGT)
Semester 2 METHODS IN PHONETICS (PGT) METHODS IN SOCIOLINGUISTICS (PGT) CORPUS LINGUISTICS (PGT) LANGUAGE AND THE GLOBAL CAMPUS: LINGUISTIC ISSUES IN THE INTERNATIONALISATION OF HIGHER EDUCATION CRITICAL APPROACHES TO LANGUAGE AND COMMUNICATION METHODS IN WRITTEN TEXT ANALYSIS MULTILINGUALISM: INDIVIDUALS, INSTITUTIONS AND SOCIETY
| Level | SCQF Level 11 |
|---|---|
| Entry requirements | Entry requirements for postgraduate taught programmes are a 2.1 Honours degree or equivalent qualification (for example, GPA 3.0 or above) in a relevant subject unless otherwise specified. |
| Location | Gilmorehill (Main) Campus University Of Glasgow University Avenue Glasgow G12 8QQ |
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