Becoming a Linguist

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. This will be of interest to students and scholars of language and linguistics, the history of linguistic thought, as well as the interested general reader.

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Eldin Milak received his PhD in Linguistics from Sungkyunkwan University, South Korea. His research looks at language and script practices and policies in the context of East Asia. Eldin is a Global Korea scholar, a Korea Foundation postdoctoral fellow, and lecturer at Curtin University, Australia.

Ana Tankosi completed her PhD in 2023 at Curtin University, Australia. Her research explores sociolinguistic and cultural inequities, translingual identities, and discourses of the Global South. Ana is a Fulbright alumna from Bosnia and Herzegovina, lecturing and conducting research in Australia.

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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