When one learns a language, becomes able to converse with it in a moderate level even without being necessarily fluent and wants to work, there are lots of opportunities both around him and on the World Wide Web if only he or she knows it. So, I would like to continue today enumerating more on the career opportunities language speakers and learners can take benefit of…..
When one learns a language, becomes able to converse with it in a moderate level even without being necessarily fluent and wants to work, there are lots of opportunities both around him and on the World Wide Web if only he or she knows it. So, I would like to continue today enumerating more on the career opportunities language speakers and learners can take benefit of. If you have not read the first article on this topic, kindly do now by clicking this link, before you proceed with this.
Linguistics Careers
Many a times when I read articles about career opportunities in the field of linguistics, there is no much accurate differences between the work you can actually do as a theoretical linguist and the ones you can most definitely benefit from as an applied linguist. So, I would like to differentiate in this post some of the jobs each of these types of linguists can venture into. To a lot of people, it seems as if this field of study is mainly pedagogic in nature but that is far from the truth. When it comes to the field of linguistics in general, that is asa theoretical linguist – you can apply for more job offers in addition to the monolingualcareers as any of the following:19. Language instructor/tutor – firstly, if you are a theoretical linguist, you best work as a language instructor or tutor in a school or institution while teaching the rudiments of a language, explaining the major components that make up a language and how best one can make use of it.
20. Linguistics lecturer – Likewise, in the university, you can also be lecturing students on their language courses and even carrying out researches in the linguistics field to help improve the pedagogy of study of the language study. Many of these lecturers soon become doctors with PhDs and professors in this field advancing the field of study with their wonderful works.
21. English Literature teacher – Literature differs from mainstream language. You can always work as a literature teacher in the schools explaining the works of great writers like Shakespeare, Wole Soyinka, Chinua Achebe and a host of others. You can teach subjects relating to prose, drama and poetry in a remarkable way and even work your way up to becoming a head of such department in the institutions.
22. Accent coach – I know of a person who makes good use of her linguistic knowledge to impact children and even adults alike in the perfect way to speak the English language like the Queen of England. These set of professional s focuses on the Queens English, Oral English, Diction and other phonetics-based language study.
23. Researcher – You can be a language researcher without necessarily being a language tutor, teacher or lecturer but you would have to be able to carry out quantum size and backed up researches that make you become an authority in the education scheme of things. And yes, in the digital world, you can get to that level without necessarily spending much on publishing your researches on paper.
24. Book Publisher – This is a very lucrative profession in the linguistics world. In fact, with little or no knowledge of linguistics, you can venture in it. However, it is best useful if you have a background knowledge in linguistics which would help judiciously in you knowing the art and science of language use and how exactly to better publish a book that would be in the cravings of the society. Forget not, the proofreader, editor among others are all professionals in this area as well.
Applied Linguistics Careers
Looking at the other professions in the applied linguistics department, you can function well if you have some specific additional training to your pure linguistics certification in order to get job opportunities. These trainings may be more professional courses, workshop certificates, seminars attendance certificates, online course certificates in related sub-fields. Examples of such professionals are as follows:
25. Speech pathologist/therapist – This professional works with the health practitioners to help treat people who have problems with their ability to speak. They may have some kind of speech defects or form of complexities in their speech organs and it becomes the duty of such professionals to examine, diagonize and treat such individuals. This is a profession that requires much expertise and training.
26. Forensic linguist – I admire this profession a lot. It involves the ability of a linguist to detect criminal offences and to run linguistic checks on a criminal based on the choice of words and even rhythm and other prosodic features of speech that can inform of the validity of a claim or the falsehood of such statements. These professionals can detect a lie, a misrepresentation in language, a bypass and so on. They are often skilled in forensics and criminology as well.27. Audiologist – these are professionals who focus on the properties of the audio communications. They focus on reading meanings imbedded in the oral speeches of people, They also take a step further to study the frequency of sound waves, the physical properties of radio-active systems among others.
28. Sociolinguist – these are experts in studying the variation in language and how these variants relate to social factors like age, sex, occupation and so on. They focus their attention on how language is used by people of different social stratification and how their strata affect their language. In short, they deal with language used in various areas of the society like home, school, office, restaurants, etc.
29. Psycholinguist – these people bother themselves on the cognitive processes and representations underlying language use. They relate language to the brain and study how the part of the mind responsible for speech can be developed, impaired or even understood to better use it.
30. Neurolinguist – The set of experts are concerned with the study of the structures of the human brain that underlie the grammar and communication that language involves. They are bothered with the left hemisphere of the brain that is useful to the study of language.Roar With Confidence
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31. Historical linguist – To understand history better, these group of individuals bother themselves with the change a language undergoes over time. However, the field can be divided into the synchronic and diachronic linguistics which focuses on change in the language use between forms or dialects of language at a particular time and change in a particular language in two or more periods in time respectively.
32. Biolinguist – I just even came across this sort of professionals myself and they seem rather interesting. They focus on the study of natural as well as human-taught communication systems in animals, compared to human language. They work with biologists and life scientist to understand the law of nature that revolves around language.
33. Geolinguist – This is also a new one to me but such experts are much more concerned with the study of the geographical distribution of languages and linguistics features. In other words, they deal with the languages in their areas and locations of usage.
34. Ethnolinguist – The study of the relationship between language and culture, and the way different ethnic groups perceive the world is the main concern of an ethnolinguist. They bother themselves with the different ethnic groups in a nation and how their languages or dialects make them use language as it differentiates them from other tribal people.
Indeed, I believe I have opened your eyes to the numerous job and career opportunities you can pursue with your knowledge of language and linguistics. If you have any other professions you want to add to all I have given which I did not mention, feel free to use the comment section and I would thankfully acknowledge it. Make comments about the professions you can venture in and tell me why you feel it is best for you. Kindly rate this video and share to your friends, colleagues and other language lovers. Thanks once again for reading through my article I know it is a lot but I felt you all need to know these so that you can better make your career decisions. Talk to you soon!