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Resources for Linguists at Work

Curious how linguistics can shape your career? These books by Anna Marie Trester provide insights, stories, and exercises that bring linguistics into professional practice. Whether you’re a student, educator, or working professional, they’ll help you connect your skills to real-world opportunities.

Bringing Linguistics to Work

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Bringing Linguistics to Work shares stories from professional linguists and offers developmental activities to help you critically analyze language, navigate the job search, and bring your expertise to new career paths. The world of work needs linguists — and this book helps you show why.

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Available at Amazon and LuLu Publishing. 

Download a sample chapter here.

Available in print and digital formats

Employing Linguistics

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Employing Linguistics explores the value of a linguistics background in the job market. With exercises, case studies, and a review of career literature, Employing Linguistics equips you to seek opportunities and face challenges with agency and curiosity.

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Available at Amazon and Bloomsbury Academic

Read a review in Te Reo – Journal of the Linguistics Society of New Zealand

Available in print and digital formats

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"Insightful, engaging, and practical, Bringing Linguistics to Work guides linguists in recognizing just how knowledgable, talented, and necessary they are in the 'real' world beyond academia - and how to find their place there."

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Natalie Schilling, Professor of Linguistics, Georgetown University