English study is an academic discipline that includes the study of
literatures written in the
English language (including literatures from the
United Kingdom, the
United States,
Ireland,
Canada,
Australia,
New Zealand,
Hong Kong,
the Philippines,
India,
Pakistan,
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).