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I am curious (being a linguistics major) why you gave up your minor.
ReplyDeleteI just didn't have time for a linguistics minor. I was a double major (Italian and History) and studied abroad for a semester. I used linguistics courses to fulfill my Humanities core requirements, and took several additional Ling. classes beyond that, but couldn't fit a whole minor. I do still sometimes wish I'd figured out a way, because I still find linguistics incredibly interesting.
ReplyDeleteWell, education is also free. You can read the same books on your own that you would have read in a linguistics course. I suggest that you get online, google some university professors' linguistics course syllabi (many professors put theirs online to make it easy for students. What area of linguistics fascinates you -- psycholinguistics, descriptive linguistics, historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, phonetics, relational/transformational/universal grammar, morphology and syntax, dialectology, applied linguistics?
ReplyDeleteI'll sound like I'm making excuses - but being in grad school, working, and interning, I don't have time for much pleasure reading lately. I did look up some linguistics blogs recently, to try to add some bite-sized linguistics into my regular reading while I still don't have the time to devote to weighty tomes other than those that are on the syllabi for the classes I'm currently enrolled in.
ReplyDeleteGenerally, my interests tend towards historical linguistics, sociolinguistics, dialectology, stuff like that - I was never as interested in the more technical aspects like phonology and morphology.