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