现代语言语言学文学士学位（荣誉学位）

探索我们使用的语言的理论方面，并获得说另一种语言的实践能力。对语言的任何理解都会增强我们的自我意识，激发我们去解决有关人类沟通的基本问题。语言学是一门越来越重要的学科，它影响着心理学，哲学，教育和人工智能领域。它在诸如人权，计算机辅助语言学习以及在医患互动，访调员与被访者对话以及法庭交流等环境中研究机构语言等各种领域中都有实际应用。
Linguistics is an increasingly important subject, impacting on areas in psychology, philosophy, education and artificial intelligence. It has real-world applications in such diverse fields as human rights, computer-assisted language learning, and the study of institutional language in settings like doctor-patient interactions, interviewer-interviewee dialogues, and courtroom exchanges.<br>You explore a wide range of core topics in linguistics, mastering key concepts in phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, semantics and pragmatics, and also investigate specialist areas including: Multilingualism and language impairment, Language, identity and gender<br>Metaphor, irony and style, Language and the mind<br><br><br>Companies and organisations in the UK and abroad are struggling to find university graduates who are fluent in at least one other language, apart from English.<br>Being an Essex modern languages graduate places you in a very advantageous position. You will be able to speak and write fluently, or to a very competent standard, in up to two languages. Language skills are in scarce supply and can be used in almost any job.<br>Our graduates become teachers, translators, administrators and journalists. Their valued language skills have enabled them to work in diverse fields including banking, entertainment, media, education and tourism, as well as for a host of UK and international companies. In particular, a degree in modern languages lends itself to a career in education, translation, interpretation, trade, PR, communications, immigration or diplomacy.