The English Language and Linguistics MA aims to provide students with a thorough understanding of the linguistic features of English from a wide range of perspectives: theoretical and applied, synchronic and diachronic. It will enable them to understand and evaluate critically a wide spectrum of ideas put forward in the study of the English language (particularly in connection with linguistic variation in terms of space, time, communicative context and linguistic contact) and will equip students with the intellectual perspectives and the scholarly skills that will prepare them to conduct independent research.