Linguistics Bharathiar University

Overview

The Department of Linguistics was established in the year 1985. Since its inception, the department is successfully doing higher researches and offering courses leading to M.A., M.Phil., and Ph.D degrees. In addition to these, the Department has taken up academic extension activities in the socially relevant areas such as tribal literacy, adult literacy, teacher training, etc. 

M.A. Linguistics programme offered by the Department from Bharathiar University is quite innovative in the sense that it includes both core and Applied Linguistics Subjects. Besides that, it offers certain unique supportive papers which attract students from science disciplines.

Program Outcomes (POs)

• Students can understand the nature and function of language in terms of sound, structure and meaning.

• Students can get familiarity with the basic concepts and assumptions of different theoretical frameworks of linguistics discipline, and obtain the ability to critically question and evaluate these assumptions.

• Integrate relevant knowledge to establish a foundation for advanced researches in indigenous languages and people.

• Grasp the complexity of language as a communication system shaped by cognitive, biological, cultural, and social factors.

• Students can employ their linguistic knowledge and skills in teaching, training and linguistics researches at further studies.

• Can engineer the mechanics of language through various linguistic components so as to employ them in Natural language processing.

• Demonstrate the in depth knowledge and understanding of the concepts, theories, and methodologies proposed by linguists in Linguistics and its different applied and subfields.

• Students can apply their linguistic knowledge to enhance their writing activities and also to improve their understanding on psycho-socio skills in inter and intralingual communicative contexts.

• Students can attain a comprehensive understanding of the basic principles of research in theoretical and descriptive linguistics.

• Understand and demonstrate the technical vocabulary and theoretical tools of the field, necessary to read published linguistic research.