Focus your studies on English or choose up to 3 modern languages from French, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Mandarin. Immerse yourself in new cultures by working or studying overseas. Our courses include the study of language with topics such as phonetics, syntax and discourse analysis. You’ll also cover applied linguistics, exploring language acquisition, sociolinguistics, and communication disorders. Alongside linguistics, we offer a wide range of cultural options, such as globalisation and transnational identity, race and ethnicity, gender in popular culture, and conflict narrative. On our courses, you'll discover the rich diversity and power of human communication.

 

  • Combine your studies with other subjects

    Mix languages and linguistics with business management, English literature or history

  • 6th

    in the UK for modern languages and linguistics

    Source: Complete University Guide 2025

  • Career opportunities

    Graduates go on to careers in interpreting, data analytics, speech and language therapy, and teaching

  • 1st

    For graduate outcomes in linguistics

    Source: Times Good University Guide 2025

Language and linguistics courses

Learn the skills and expertise to move to the next stage of your career with our language and linguistics courses.

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Matthew Hunt
Lecturer in Sociolinguistics
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My teaching in linguistics focuses on sociolinguistics, particularly language variation and change where I explore how a person’s age, gender, sexuality, ethnicity or social class group can shape how they talk. This is closely linked to my research in accent bias in the world of domestic abuse policing.
Alexandra Krendel
Lecturer in Applied Linguistics
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My teaching specialism is digital discourse, where we look at the ways people communicate online, how different platforms have different communicative norms and how to approach the research ethics surrounding digital contexts. As my principal research interest is in the language of online hate, this has closely informed my teaching.
Glyn Hicks
Head of Department
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My linguistics teaching reveals the hidden grammatical processes that underlie sentence structures. My research explores how these processes determine the patterns of language development that we observe in language acquisition, as well as in language attrition.

Student stories

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    Creative coursework helped build my career as an interpreter

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    Skills from my linguistic studies degree opened up a career in coding

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  • BA Spanish and Linguistics Graduate, Joe Dobinson standing by a sign for ITV studios.

    The close-knit academic community of my course helped shape my career path

    Discover how Joe's course transformed not just his language skills, but also his career through a powerful network of support and community.

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  • A group of students talking and walking along a path at Avenue campus. The trees are in full leaf and the sun is shining.

    Optional modules helped me turn a subject I love into a career

    Emily Woods explains how the University's flexible approach to learning led her to a career that blends language analysis with real-world business applications.

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