Linguistics Career Course Institutions in India and Abroad

LINGUISTICS
Linguistics is the study of social, historical, political, biological, psychological and economic aspects of a language. Language experts examine the structure of a world with their knowledge of different branches of this subject like etymology, semantics, semiotics, etc. He can analyse the structure of words, syllables and sentences apart from observing the changes and variations in the structure, meaning and pronunciation of words.

More and more people across the world are learning a foreign language for economic reasons. Even the Chinese, whose mother tongue is spoken by the maximum number of people in the world, are studying English. In this age of globalisation, being bilingual helps.

Students of linguistics are taught phonetics, grammar(syntax), semantics, the relationship between language and mind, language and society. They also learn lexicography and language teaching. Students are asked to take up an Indian language on which no work has been done so far.

Students are also required to undertake fieldwork. They also go to a little-known area where residents speak a dialect that has not been written down. Pupils speak to the people and transcribe their dialect.

SCOPE:
"India is a linguistically rich country and every Indian is largely bilingual unlike the Europeans", notes Professor Sharma. Our country boasts of five families of languages including Indo-Aryan, Dravidian, Tibeto-Burman, Austro-Asiatic and those of other assorted groups like the ones spoken by the aborigines of the Andaman and Nicobar Islands. So, there is a great need to translate written texts from one Indian language to another.

Linguistics is not a popular subject among students as most of them are drawn towards 'market-oriented' courses. However, academics see good scope in the field.

The work is not limited to translation and interpretation. Linguistics finds direct applications in many other disciplines including Sociology, Anthropology and Psychology, say academics. A student of Psychology will study it from a different point of view whereas a student of Economics can view it from another perspective. Likewise, in Sociology, you can take up projects to examine social stratification.

Computational Linguistics is a promising field wherein professionals write technical programmes for computer software such as those used for language teaching. Apart from this option, careers exist in publishing houses who employ qualified candidates to compile their databases, concordances and online dictionaries.

Linguists can also find work in organisations like the Central Institute of Indian Languages, Mysore, the Central Hindi Training Institute, New Delhi and the Anthropological Survey of India. Those trained in linguistics have the options of imparting training in related courses to students in B.Ed. and M.Ed. programmes or teaching foreign or second languages.

Employment avenues also include advertising, journalism as well as corporate and business communication.

Linguists could also explore job possibilities with hospitals as speech therapists, with call centers as speech trainers or as dubbing and voice experts. They may go for medical transcription job as well. Another potential option that linguists could consider is deciphering legal language.

INSTITUTES
University of Delhi: M.A. in Linguistics, Post M.A., Diploma in Linguistics, Advanced Diploma in Applied Linguistics.
Jawaharlal Nehru University(New Delhi): M.A. in Linguistics.
Central Institute of English and Foreign Languages, Hyderbad: M.A. in Linguistics.
Aligarh Muslim University(UP): B.A.(Hons.)/ M.A. in Linguistics, Certificate in Linguistics, P.G.Diploma in Linguistics.
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