How does a linguist understand language and its relationship to communication?
Linguists are aware of the many ways that language helps us convey information including representing the external world to one another: the physical people, placan the MA Linguistics with a track in Language and Communication help me prepare for a course in education?es, things, actions and events that we can observe. Training in linguistics will enable you to explore how we convey more internal aspects of our experience: the subjective states of mind and feelings that are part of our cognitive and perceptual worlds. Besides conveying external and internal information to other people, language also allows us to perform actions (such as requests, warning, promises), convey moods, express various facets of our identities, and form personal and social relationships.
