What can you do with a degree in linguistics?
Will Fitzgerald
MSU Linguistics ’78
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CREATE A WELL REGARDED SKETCH COMEDY SHOW
(CARRIE BROWNSTEIN, SOCIOLINGUISTICS ’94 FROM THE EVERGREEN STATE COLLEGE)
Strategies Teaching English Overseas
Relatively easy to get a modest job overseas with a BA
Consider getting an MA in ESL/EFL that pays your way
Strategies for staying in linguistics
You'll need more schooling
Lots of math
Lots of linguistics
Lots of writing
Hound your professors for research opportunities
MSU has lots of opportunities
The right school will matter
Strategies for computational linguistics
You'll need more schooling, unless ...
Lots of math
Probability/Combinatorics/Statistics
Coding
Never too late to start coding
never too early to start coding
Internships?
Strategies for Literacy and Translation
Summer Institute of Linguistics/Wycliffe
American Bible Societies
Stategies for Lexicography
Trend is computational (so see that slide)
Most Lexicographers don't have a background in linguistics
Naming things
Might be able to get a marketing internship
Start now.
Start your own consultancy?
Strategies for working with The NSA/CIA/FBI
Hiring "linguists"
Traffic analysis
Crypography
Computational linguistics
Strategies for Networking
Professors
Alumni
Linguist List
Friend-of-friends
An offer ...
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