Full Description
This unique collection of essays, edited by and for students of linguistics, offers insights into the personal and professional journeys of some of the key thinkers in language studies.
With contributions by fifteen established scholars, the volume provides first-hand insights into the 'becoming' of a linguist, and the many joys and challenges which come with it. The contributors pair honest and practical academic advice with personal experiences to assist novice and aspiring linguists to find their footing in the rapidly changing landscape of language studies, and guide them through linguistics past, present, and future. Autobiographical and reflexive, each chapter also includes recommendations for key readings and resources used or produced by the contributors.
As a volume focused on the people behind the ideas, Becoming a Linguist will be of interest to students and scholars of language and linguistics, the history of linguistic thought, as well as the interested general reader.
Contents
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INTRODUCTION
CHAPTER 1: Re-making linguistics
CHAPTER 2: What I got out of linguistics, and what I gave back
CHAPTER 3: Becoming an applied linguist
CHAPTER 4: Lessons learned
CHAPTER 5: Welcome to a lifetime of fun
CHAPTER 6: On becoming/observing people languaging
CHAPTER 7: Worlds in grains of sand: Interactional sociolinguistics and linguistic ethnography
CHAPTER 8: Embracing vulnerability
CHAPTER 9: The reluctant linguist
CHAPTER 10: From apprentice to mentor: An applied linguist's voyage
CHAPTER 11: Remaking the world with Linguistics
CHAPTER 12: Why identity, ideology and emotion matter: A Global South perspective
CHAPTER 13: Chronotopes: Time and space in identity-making
CHAPTER 14: Yes, aspiring linguist, what you're doing is linguistics
CHAPTER 15: Arriving at a linguistics of hope
CONCLUSION
Index
