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So you know a linguist

by Jodie Martin on Feb 01, 2012

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So you know a linguist — Presentation Transcript

So youknow alinguist… twitter.com/jazzlinguist slideshare.net/jayelem

Did you ask them howmany languages theyspeak?

Did they forward you this presentation?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2168/1558028479_1fb667e2f2_You see there’s two types of linguists.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/elo/3683835341/Type 1: Speaks many languages (also called a ‘polyglot’)

And often features in science fiction

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gzap/2997986634/sizes/l/in/photostream/Yeah, a lot of us get into linguistics because we learnt or speak another language.

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4112/5001399117_7651e6384d_b.jpg But we get asked that question all the time.

ALL. THE. TIME. http://www.flickr.com/photos/ohhector/2366343607/in/photostream/

So it might help if you understand there’s another type of linguist http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2168/1558028479_1fb667e2f2_o

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kcolwell/2854702332/sizes/l/in/photostream/ language Type 2: a scientist

We studypronunciationhttp://farm3.static.flickr.com/2071/2088252449_ddfc4c2733_b.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eelend/5079913/sizes/o/We study writing

http://www.flickr.com/photos/surrealmuse/4757004/sizes/z/in/photostream / We study words and word histories

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4034/4260719610_35b63d043f_b.jpg We study old languages

We study new ways ofcommunicationhttp://leepro.deviantart.com/art/IM-language-100019257

http://www.flickr.com/photos/benrussell/1477899923/ We study teacher talk

http://www.flickr.com/photos/bluesquarething/429And student writing

We study successful communicationhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/pricklebush/224674200/

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3318/4584323789_a060dc2417_o.jpgWe study not so successfulcommunication

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_oLbtTQY0cnE/TIgcnggvQyI/AAAAAAAAAF8/jlDFC95ZWE8/s320/darth-vader-face.jpg Most linguists aren’t grammar nazis

Think of us aslanguage hippies http://www.flickr.com/photos/nopiedra/2266078656/

Who get REALLY excited over an aspirated p, or the history of a word, or using “Dude” as a gender-neutral greeting. http://www.flickr.com/photos/fussylittlengine/3946695040/

REALLY EXCITEDhttp://www.flickr.com/photos/carplips/1704434626/

So give a linguist a hug.They probably need it. http://www.flickr.com/photos/thecaucas/3849178561/

Jodie Martin , PhD student at University of Adelaide @magicalpretz47 Thanks! Glad it's helpful. I've just put 'LANGUAGE HIPPY NOT GRAMMAR NAZI' on the door of our office with the appropriate pictures. Apparently a Classics lecturer insists there's no such thing as grammar nazis - out pendanticing the pendantic! 1 week ago

Are you sure you want to Yes No

Sally Kao , research assistant & college student at National Taiwan University of Science & Technology Thank you sooooooo much for the slides. It really says it all. I just shared it on my fb wall without a second thought! I've finally found a brilliant explanation for what I'm studying. Really I was so often bothered with the same question, hahaha... 1 week ago

Red Rose Awesome and SO TRUE :D Linguist and PROUD :)) 3 weeks ago

Jodie Martin , PhD student at University of Adelaide @vahidm Thanks for the feedback, Vahid. Glad you liked it! 3 months ago

Vahid Masrour , Thinking about ICTs 4 Education Lovely! As a polyglot and a presenter, i enjoyed it a lot. Thanks. 3 months ago

Jodie Martin , PhD student at University of Adelaide @bdchauvette Thanks! I was thinking about that already - something about recording and re-energising languages. Will try a few out and see what works and what pictures I can find to go with it. 3 months ago

Ben Chauvette , PhD Student, Linguistics at Rice University Having something about language documentation and description in there would be great, but it's kind of hard to capture that in a simple, sexy phrase without sounding like you're exoticizing the languages ('Linguists study cool/weird/unknown languages!').

Perhaps 'Linguists study endangered languages'? Or 'Linguists revitalize endangered languages', for something a bit jazzier? 3 months ago

Jodie Martin , PhD student at University of Adelaide Hey folks, if I'm missing anything important linguists do, give me a simple phrase ('We verb noun') and I'll add a slide! Remember, though, I'm not trying to categorise everything linguists do, just demonstrate it's not all about learning numerous languages, and we're not gonna judge their grammar prescriptively. If there's more to say, it'd be great to have more slideshows illustrating what different types of linguists do! Or ESL teachers or librarians or physicists or engineers or sociologists or architects or.... 3 months ago

Jodie Martin , PhD student at University of Adelaide Now featured on the slideshare homepage! Thank you to everyone! 3 months ago

Jodie Martin , PhD student at University of Adelaide Thank you everyone who has favourited, followed, tweeted, retweeted, shared, liked, +1'd and said awesome things about my slideshow. I'm glad you all like it and I'm happy to fill a need. Linguists: feel free to share anytime you get an annoying question or simply need a hug! Non-linguists: I hope it all makes a little more sense to you now! 3 months ago

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