文学硕士（荣誉）中文和语言学

语言学关注的是更多地了解语言如何获得，产生和理解，语言如何在个人与社会之间的相互作用中发挥作用，其抽象结构是什么以及在大脑中如何表现以及语言如何随时间变化。在语言课程中学习语言学的学生能够识别并清楚地描述他们在复杂的表层系统中的系统性。<br>该课程在文学，语言和文化与哲学，心理学和语言科学学院内教授。 <br>国外年份
As the world’s second most spoken language, Mandarin Chinese and its associated cultures have helped to shape the contemporary world in many ways.This joint honours programme gives you the opportunity to study Chinese while developing your social scientific understanding of language.Chinese and Linguistics make an excellent joint honours choice by combining the study of:a language in its cultural, historical and political contextthe expression and creation of meaningLinguistics courses of particular relevance to language students cover:the speech sounds of the world's languagesvariation in the languages of the worldthe structure and history of world languagesEdinburgh is the only university in Scotland to offer both single and joint honours undergraduate programmes in Chinese.While we specialise in teaching students with little or no prior knowledge of the language, we can also accommodate students who already have some experience of studying Chinese.Linguistics examines how language works, describing how sounds, words, sentences and conversations combine to express and create meaning.You will also study:the uses of language in everyday lifethe ways in which language varies across society and evolves over timehow language is mastered by childrenAs you progress through the programme, you will have the opportunity to plan and test scientific hypotheses about linguistic phenomena using specialist linguistics and phonetics equipment.