The MA (Hons) Linguistics and Social Anthropology is a joint programme that will enable you to examine the diversity of human culture and communication, both ancient and modern.

Linguistics examines how language works. It describes how sounds, words, sentences and conversations combine to express and create meaning.

It studies:

the uses of language in everyday life
the ways in which language varies across society and evolves over time
how language is mastered by children
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.