Some up-and-coming business executives hit a glass ceiling in their careers when partners, peers, or clients cannot fully understand them. Sometimes, managers who grew up in rural areas might find themselves discriminated against when competing for jobs or contracts in urban areas. Repeated studies...
Linguistics majors are therefore well equipped for a variety of jobs and graduate-level programs. Job Opportunities A linguistics major provides students with valuable training for many different kinds of opportunities following graduation. Some may require additional training or skills, but not all do....
Successful students in this major are strong verbal and written communicators. They’re often at least somewhat scientifically-minded and skilled in research and analysis. The linguistics degree opens up a wide array of jobs, many of them in education and academia. Graduates commonly become teachers...
Defining the scope of the field, and the linguists major jobs andtools.LabovLabov, William. 1987. Some observations on the foundation of linguistics. Available at http://www.ling.upenn.edu/ ˜wlabov/Papers/Foundations.html.Labov, W. (1987). Some Observations on the Foundation of ...
Have you considered the possibility of a double major to make your linguistic work part of an interdisciplinary program of study? Having a double major can widen your skill set, thus making you more marketable to employers. A secondary specialization in one of the following areas can complement ...
Computational linguistics can be divided into major areas depending upon the medium of the language being processed, whether spoken or textual; and upon the task being performed, whether analyzing language (recognition) or synthesizing language (generation)....
The archaeology of North America is traditionally parsed out into culture areas which correspond to major physiographic divisions. These include the Arctic and sub-Arctic in Canada and Alaska; the northeast in New England; the Mid-Atlantic of the eastern seaboard; the Southeast associated with the ...
Almost everyone, absent a major cognitive impairment, acquires BICS. This is the language of everyday life, the way children talk to each other and to their parents and the way adults speak to each other in day to day conversation. BICS is all that is necessary for many jobs, for example...
(HKIEd being the major provider) had to be reduced, some of HKIEd’s staff inherited from the former teacher training colleges (civil servants) were paid on a higher scale than university professors when they were not trained or prepared to teach up to degree level, and that TEIs were not...
The School of Southeast Asian Language and Culture under the Guangxi University of Foreign Languages has been a major source of training in Asian languages in Guangxi. The school offers undergraduate majors in Vietnamese, Thai, Cambodian, Indonesian, Burmese and Japanese. "The school has been devo...