#linguist job

[brown-spider]

I made a note document titled "Hobie and Noir's Stupid Words"

I really sat here and took notes while watching 1970's films that took place in London, and 1930's films that took place in NYC to study their turns of phrase, idioms, insults, and so on. I feel like an insane person.

Anyways how has your day been? Productive?

[lingthusiasm]

Bonus 76: Linguistic jobs beyond academia

Linguistics professors are some of the most visible career role models that you see if you're taking courses in linguistics (since they're teaching the courses), but most people who study linguistics go on to jobs outside academia. Eight years ago, Lauren was trying to figure out what some of those job options were and how people kept using their linguistics training in doing them.

In this bonus episode, Lauren and Gretchen get enthusiastic about the jobs that people go on to do after a linguistics degree! We talk about Lauren's new academic article in a fancy linguistics journal about a blog post series she's been running for 8 years, interviewing 80 people who studied linguistics, from a minor to a doctorate level, and their experience and advice for non-academic jobs. We also talk about domain-general versus domain-specific skills, the literature by other people on career options for linguists, and Lauren and Gretchen's own thought processes by which we ended up in one academic and one non-academic career.

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Listen to this episode about linguistics, jobs and skills, and get access to many more bonus episodes by supporting Lingthusiasm on Patreon.

[kingofthewilderwest]

So if a walrus emailed you with a contract gig to cover fairy linguistics, would you take it?

Mmmmmmmmmm... that depends on pay. That sounds like a tough, tough job. And I don't want to think that hard.

[allthingslinguistic]

June-July 2023: Lingstitute and Merriam-Webster

In June and July, I headed to Lingstitute 2023, the LSA summer institute, at UMass Amherst. It was great to get to hang out with old friends and meet lots of new people While I was in Massachusetts, I dropped by the headquarters of Merriam Webster to say hi to the dictionaries and lexicographers! (In that order.) Thanks especially to Peter Sokolowski for the guided tour and to Stacy Dickerman…

[superlinguo]

Linguistics Jobs Interviews - directory of posts and resources

Superlinguo has a range of resources about studying linguistics, and how this relates to skills, jobs and careers. This post links to all the resources across this blog.

Full list of interviews

Over 80 interviews, published between 2015 and 2022. Listed in reverse chronological order. The 2022 interviews were conducted by Martha Tsutsui-Billins.

Article summary post

I teamed up qualitative researcher Dr Anuja Cabraal to use the first 50 interviews in the Superlinguo series as the basis of an article, published in Language. This article also includes an overview of careers and skills for humanities and linguistics students, and ways we can do better at helping students connect the skills they’ve learnt with future careers.

Doing your own Linguistics Jobs interviews

The Superlinguo series has ended, but I still strongly encourage you to do interviews. This post includes information about why it’s good to interview people, and how to interview people about their jobs and careers, including how I ran the Superlinguo interviews.

Superlinguo Interviews featured in For The Love of Language (Intro to Ling textbook)

Excerpts from five of the Superlinguo Linguistics Job Interviews are featured in the second edition of the introductory linguistics textbook For The Love of Language (Burridge & Stebbins, Cambridge). I use this textbook across two different undergraduate subjects, including a week on linguistics and careers.

Resources slides

Everything has been brought together in this set of slides I put together with Gretchen McCulloch. These slides are made available under a Creative Commons license so you can use and remix them for your own needs.

[pizzapasta23045]

Ok but the fact that Al Haitham is a lingiustics major in canon is something I will never accept.

To me he will forever be a physics major and or a civic engineer that works with Kaveh and constaly fights with him about how impossible certain aspects of his building are. It's just the truth.

[funky-little-vulcan]

tumblr dialect is writing in long sentences that merge into each other without punctuation* or any sort of pause marker except for word order on the one hand it’s hard to read but on the other hand it communicates a very specific vibe,,,,

*all punctuation to be deposited at end of post

[la-galaxie-langblr]

So Much happening, lots of it good but So Much

[drlinguo]

Source

[gacorley]

The most annoying thing about jobs boards is that, if you indicate at all that you have training in linguistics, are looking for linguist or translation jobs, or speak multiple languages, you will get recommended jobs for ANY non-English language.

Like, no, I do not speak Japanese. If you have a job that requires Spanish, I can probably do it. If it requires Chinese at a basic level, I might be able to do it. Do not send me languages that aren't on my profile.

[victusinveritas]

Soviet linguist, epigrapher and ethnographer Yuri Knorozov, who was particularly renowned for the pivotal role his research played in the deciphering of the Maya script, the writing system used by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization of Mesoamerica, 1971. His cat, Asya, was credited as co-author on most of his research--if she was not credited by publishers, Knorozov would bother them until they issued an apology and correctly cited her valuable research.

[steadfastgirl]

the girl i had a situationship with throughout high school is now a christian influencer and anti language inclusivity activist 😵‍💫

[dadbodbensisko-moved]

what does uhura do? is she an engineer? is she a linguist? why does she randomly start talking about what's on the scanners? that's spock's job. why is she doing spocks job?

no one knows, least of all star trek

[superlinguo]

Linguistics Jobs resource set: bit.ly/ling-jobs

This slide set has been created as a resource for helping linguistics lecturers talk to students about using linguistics in their careers, and for linguistics students who are thinking about work.

These slides include four main sections:

An overview of linguistics and careers

An introduction to the Linguistics Jobs Interview Series

Activities to get students thinking about linguistics jobs  

Links and resources

These slides have been licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. Feel free to edit and use them for your own classes, with attribution to Lauren Gawne and Gretchen McCulloch.

These slides have been updated to include a summary of Gawne & Cabraal (2023), which includes a qualitative analysis of the first 50 interviews.

See also:

Superlinguo Linguist Job Interviews full list

Doing your own Linguistics Job Interviews

Gawne & Cabraal (2023) Linguistics education and its application in the workplace: An analysis of interviews with linguistics graduates. Language.

Gawne & Cabraal (2023) summary post

[lesmiserablol]

brought up the chat is a fourth person pronoun to my coworkers in the writing tutoring lab so naturally instead of doing our job we spent forty minutes inventing fourth, fifth, and sixth person pronouns from existing english words and also created two categories of verbs while we were at it