Speech, Language and Sociolinguistics

University of Glasgow
Postgraduate MSc Full-time 12 Months English language

About this course

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

    • Study Options

    This course is available in 2 study options:

    Full-time Shown above

    Duration: 12 Months

    Qualification: MSc

    Location: Glasgow

    Part-time

    Duration: 24 Months

    Qualification: MSc

    Location: Glasgow

    Career Prospects

    Graduates from this course typically go into the following occupations:

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    4135 Library clerks and assistants
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    2492 Newspaper and periodical broadcast journalists and reporters
    2491 Newspaper, periodical and broadcast editors
    2115 Social and humanities scientists

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    Course Details

    Qualification
    MSc
    Study Mode
    Full-time
    Duration
    12 Months
    Start Date
    2025
    Academic Year
    2025
    Campus / Location
    Glasgow
    Scheme
    Postgraduate
    Subjects
    English language

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    University of Glasgow

    Glasgow

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