This unit aims to give students skills to analyse and understand the structure of the English language, in both spoken and written form from the level of the smallest structural unit to the level of the sentence using techniques and terminology drawn from various schools of linguistics. Students will analyse the English sound system and the English word building system, English vocabulary and the relationships between words, and the grammar and syntax of English.

The aim of this unit is to familiarise students with the historical development of English from Old English through to the modern varieties of English around the world today. It explores the linguistic and historical influences on English from early times to the present and examines these influences as they reveal themselves in the grammar, phonology and vocabulary of older and modern varieties of English

This unit is part of the English Linguistics Major. It introduces students to two important fields of linguistics, semantics and pragmatics, with special reference to English. It intersperses the theoretical elements with practical applications through examples, exercises and textual analysis, which enable students to understand the significance of these fields of linguistics to the languages professions, such as interpreting and translation and language teaching. The unit also aims to refine students' academic writing skills through the preparation of a short research paper.

This unit explores language at the text or discourse level, overviewing several linguistic approaches to the analysis of discourse and focusing on the role of features such as context, social purpose, appropriateness, and textual cohesion and coherence in the production of texts.