If you are doing a major in Linguistics, there are so many fields to work as a linguist. In this article we are going to discuss and elaborate everything related to job prospective areas in linguistics until we make your job path clear after your graduation.
Career paths
If
you are interested in academic field it is one of the best options for you, as
well as you can choose many fields we will show you all of them below:
1.
The Most common jobs are classified into two categories:
(a) Translator: you can choose this field if
you are having that much ability to memorize many and many vocabularies,
because as a translator you will have to go deeply in the particular language
and you have to memorize a lot of phrases and more of vocabularies. And this
major also are divided into more than one category, such as document translator
as well as you can work as a interpreter.
(b)
Linguistics Teacher:
As
a teacher it is one of the best options and easiest one among all, there is no
much efforts you will have to do unless you understand all areas of linguistics branches. foreign language teacher is also second
option for the students who dedicated most of them time to learn other language
by applying linguistics methodology in learning that particular language.
2-
Technical writer:
The work of technical writer is based on collaboration
with graphic designers, user experience designers, software developers and
testers. The main role of technical writer is collecting information, planning
content and writing technical documentation to educate consumers about a
product or service in the form of manuals, whitepapers, business
correspondence, et cetera.
3- Lexicographer:
The work of lexicographer is to write, compile and
edit dictionaries. The main work as lexicographer is to monitor and record new
words and check the accuracy of their own texts, performing a wealth of
editorial tasks.
4-
Forensic linguist:
Forensic
linguist he performs language analysis on emergency calls, suicide letters,
threat communication and social media during legal proceedings for law firms in
order to solve crimes.
5-
Computational linguist:
Computer
systems which deal with human language are developed by computational linguists,
although it is a field of great challenges and needs technicality but demand
for computational linguists is high. Tasks such as speech recognition (e.g.,
Siri), speech synthesis, machine translation (e.g., Google Translate), grammar
checking, text mining and other “Big Data” applications, and many others are performed
by the systems developed by computational linguists .
Written by: Zaid & Hosam
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