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English Studies is an academic discipline that includes the study of
literatures written in the English
language (including literatures from the U.K., U.S., Canada, Australia, New
Zealand, Hong
Kong, India, South
Africa, and the Middle
East, among other areas), English linguistics (including English phonetics, phonology, syntax, morphology, semantics, pragmatics, corpus
linguistics, and stylistics), |
and English sociolinguistics (including discourse
analysis of written and spoken texts in the English language, the history
of the English language, English
language learning and teaching, and the study of World
Englishes).
More broadly, English studies explores the production and analysis of texts
produced in English (or in areas of the world in which English is a common mode
of communication). It is not uncommon for academic departments of
"English" or "English Studies" to include scholars of the English
language, literature (including literary
criticism and literary
theory), linguistics, law, journalism, composition
studies, the philosophy
of language, literacy, publishing/history
of the book, communication
studies, technical
communication, folklore, cultural
studies, creative
writing, critical
theory, disability
studies, area
studies (especially American
studies), theatre, gender
studies/ethnic
studies, digital
media/electronic
publishing, film
studies/media
studies, rhetoric,
and various courses in the liberal
arts and humanities,
among others.
In most English-speaking countries, English studies is practiced in university departments of English, while the study of texts produced in non-English languages takes
place in other departments, and such as departments foreign language or comparative
literature. This disciplinary divide is one motivation for the division of
the North American Modern
Language Association (MLA) into two subgroups.
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