Master of Arts In Linguistics

“…All the core theoretical courses of the Programme will be taught in general classes while the language specific components will, ifThe programme examines the principles and theories of linguistic inquiry as well as their application to the major branches of linguistics, namely: Syntax, Morphology and Phonetics (i.e. Descriptive Linguistics); Sociolinguistics; Psycholinguistics; Applied Linguistics; Comparative and Contrastive Linguistics; Semantics; Lexicography; Translation and Interpretation; Pragmatics; et cetera. …”
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‘Back to the future’: The ‘new prescriptivism’ in twenty-first-century Britain by Joan C. BEAL

“…In this paper I examine the phenomenon of popular and institutional prescriptivism in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries and consider why, far from receding in the face of descriptive linguistics it is, if anything, resurgent.…”
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Phonological Processes in Ekegusii Borrowing: A Constraint-based Approach by Edinah Mose

“…Since this was a phonological study, descriptive linguistic fieldwork was used. The data used in this article was extracted from Mose’s doctoral study, whereby purposive sampling was used to obtain two hundred borrowed segments from the Ekegusii dictionary, then supplemented by introspection. …”
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TO BUY OR NOT TO BUY: LANGUAGE AS A TOOL OF PERSUASION ON SOCIAL MEDIA by Asta Pukienė, Ugnė Lisauskaitė

“…The practical analysis is based on the video footages of Jeffree Star, who is one of the most famous influencers in the digital environment with more than 20 million dedicated followers. The descriptive linguistic method was applied for processing the collected examples and revealing the most common linguistic techniques of persuasion that were used by the famous influencer while promoting his beauty products online. …”
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