MA in Linguistics

MA in Linguistics (semester based) program is designed to enable the students to become theory-oriented and explanatorily motivated academic linguists, observationally oriented and descriptively motivated field linguists, and also service-oriented and developmentally motivated applied linguists. The courses further aim at promoting linguistics as an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary discipline, encouraging the students to describe numerous languages of Nepal and applying the knowledge of linguistics in various fields.

This two-year MA program in Linguistics comprises various fields of general and applied linguistics. The focus has been given to foundation courses like phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. With this background, students will then be introduced to sociolinguistics, psycholinguistics, historical linguistics, typological studies, various linguistic theories, field methods and application of linguistics to various practical fields.

General Objectives

The courses under this program are designed to enable the students to become theory-oriented and explanatorily motivated academic linguists, observationally or iented and descriptively motivated f ield linguists, and also service-oriented and developmentally motivated applied linguists.

The program aims at promoting linguistics as a discipline, encouraging the students to describe numerous languages of Nepal and applying the knowledge of linguistics in various fields like text analysis, translation, language teaching, lexicography, literacy and other similar kinds of works.

Objectives of the courses

On completion of courses for MA in Linguistics, the students will be able to:

• develop expertise in various linguistic fields;
• analyze languages at different levels;
• use their knowledge of linguistics in various practical fields related to specific language communities in particular and Nepalin general; and
• work in various practical fields such as language teaching, language documentation, translation, lexicography, language policy and planning, language revitalization, clinical linguistics, forensic linguistics and translation.