How Linguistics fits into a career

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• Understand the systematicity of language
• Understand how language can spread geographically; how languages change over time
• Recognize common cross-linguistic patterns; language universals
• Understand scientific importance of all languages/dialects
• Recognize properties of signed as well as spoken languages
• Understanding the potential effects of social factors
• Understand the value of describing language as a formal system

• Analyzing & investigating
• Creativity
• Generate & apply new ideas & solutions
• Identify the impact of social diversity

• Gather information systematically to establish facts & principles.
• Problem solving
• Able to act on initiative, identify opportunities & proactive in putting forward ideas & solutions
• Able to plan activities & carry them through effectively

• The analysis of sound, word, and sentence structures of individual languages
• The modelling language as a formal system

• Using computational skills and digital analysis tools
• Analyzing & investigating
• Creativity
• Generate & apply new ideas & solutions

• Computing skills
• Evaluate options based on logic & fact & present solutions
• Ability to obtain and process information

• Gathering data and making observations
• Hypothesis formation and testing
• Making predictions about possible vs. impossible patterns
• Empirical advantages of working with large amounts of data

• Analyzing & investigating
• Creativity
• Generate & apply new ideas & solutions

• Ability to analyze quantitative data

• Writing skills
• Reasoning skills
• Ability to focus on/pinpoint a problem
• Library research

• Written Communication
• Planning & organizing
• Time management
• Teamwork

• Able to express ideas clearly and confidently in speech and writing
• Manage time effectively, prioritizing tasks and able to work to deadlines
• Work confidently within a group
• Ability to obtain and process information.
• Ability to create and/or edit written reports