Linguistics and Social Anthropology

MA (Hons) Linguistics and Social Anthropology is a joint programme where you will examine human culture and communication through time.

Linguistics explores how language works. It describes how we create meaning through:

* sounds

* words

* sentences

* conversations

It also studies:

* the uses of language in everyday life

* ways in which language varies across society and evolves over time

* how language is mastered by children

Social anthropology

Social anthropology is the study of human behaviour in living societies.

Understanding a living society and its members involves participant observation. This means spending many months, or even years, living with and sharing the experiences of the people being studied.