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University of Glasgow: Speech, Language and Sociolinguistics
| Institution | University of Glasgow View institution profile |
|---|---|
| Department | School of Critical Studies |
| Web | www.glasgow.ac.uk/ |
| Study type | Taught |
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.
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.
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.
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
- SEMANTICS OF ENGLISH (PGT)
- FORENSIC LINGUISTICS
- METHODS IN WRITTEN TEXT ANALYSIS
- SOCIAL AND INDIVIDUAL VARIABLES IN LANGUAGE LEARNING AND TEACHING
Semester 2
- 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
- INTRODUCTION TO QUALITATIVE SOCIOLINGUISTICS
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.
MSc
The University of Glasgow is one of the UK’s most prestigious seats of learning, and the fourth oldest university in the English speaking world. Established in 1451 and recognised for its world-changing research and teaching, the University has inspired thinkers from eminent scientist Lord Kelvin and the father of economics Adam Smith, to Scotland’s First Minister Nicola Sturgeon.
Rankings
The University:
is ranked 81st in the world in the QS World University Rankings 2023
- is in the top 100 in the world: Times Higher World University Rankings 2023
- 95.9% of students in employment or further study 6 months after graduation …
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