Applications of Linguistics

Learning Outcomes

Knowledge and Understanding

Having successfully completed this module, you will be able to demonstrate knowledge and understanding of:

• Draw on your understanding of language acquisition and language processing in order to explore the relationship between language and the human mind and brain
• Language variation and language varieties;
• Forensic Linguistics: use of language analysis in relation to the law
• Corpus Linguistics and data analysis
• Language in an educational context
• Language politics and language policy;

Transferable and Generic Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Understand the relationship between theoretical frameworks and empirical evidence;
• Synthesise evidence from a range of sources in order to present a coherent argument;
• Apply sophisticated analytical tools to the investigation of a problem,

Subject Specific Practical Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Apply analytical linguistic tools and concepts to the analysis of the topics studied;
• Understand and analyse language variation;
• Analyse language data from a range of perspectives;
• Understand and analyse language acquisition data

Subject Specific Intellectual and Research Skills

Having successfully completed this module you will be able to:

• Link empirical evidence to the formulation of linguistic theories;
• Language in its geographical, social, historical and political context;

Summative

This is how we’ll formally assess what you have learned in this module.

Referral

This is how we’ll assess you if you don’t meet the criteria to pass this module.

Repeat

An internal repeat is where you take all of your modules again, including any you passed. An external repeat is where you only re-take the modules you failed.