Overview

Ideally complementing your Bachelor studies, the Master of Arts in English Linguistics at the University of Zurich offers you a thorough knowledge of English linguistics and a critical awareness of approaches and methodologies. The programme is set up to develop creative, critical, intellectual, and communicative skills, preparing graduates for a wide range of professional settings and providing them with research training and preparation for a possible subsequent doctorate.

Why an Master of Arts in English Linguistics at Zurich?

• largest professorial staff in Switzerland
• largest English-studies library in Switzerland
• access to the Zentralbibliothek, Switzerland’s largest library
• great thematic range
• wide variety of possible combinations of topics
• supportive teaching and learning environment
• preparation for independent research at PhD level
• attractive location in Zurich’s city centre: easy to reach, close to cafes and refectories, libraries, museums, cultural centres.

We offer a wide range of subjects in English linguistics. Our particular areas of expertise include:

Sociolinguistics

• Language variation and change
• Dialectology
• Global English
• Contact linguistics (Contact dialectology, Pidgin and Creole linguistics)
• Varieties of English, better- and lesser-known

Pragmatics

• Historical pragmatics
• Cognitive pragmatics

New Media / Mass Media

• Hypertextlinguistics
• Language of mass media

English Historical Linguistics

• For example, historical syntax

Corpus linguistics

• Corpus-based synchronic and diachronic description of English