Analysing Language Use

Overview

You cover topics including:

• Quantitative and qualitative methodologies for analysing sociolinguistic data
• Interview, questionnaire and observation data
• Sociocultural factors in language use
• Variationist sociolinguistic theory

Your future

On our Analysing Language Use  course offered by the University of Essex you develop key employability skills including thinking analytically, research design, data collection using quantitative and qualitative methods, data analysis and essay writing. Our course can lead to a career in areas such as academia, secondary school teaching, forensics, publishing, administration, and public service.

We work with the University’s Employability and Careers Centre to help you find out about further work experience, internships, placements, and voluntary opportunities.

Within our Department of Language and Linguistics, we also offer supervision for PhD and MPhil. We offer supervision in areas including language acquisition, language learning and language teaching, culture and communication, psycholinguistics, language disorders, sociolinguistics, and theoretical and descriptive linguistics.