28.1109, Featured Linguist: João Costa

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1109. Fri Mar 03 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1109, Featured Linguist: João Costa

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Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2017 12:01:30
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Featured Linguist: João Costa

 
Dear subscribers,

We are pleased to present you our first featured linguist of the 2017 Fund
Drive: João Costa! Read his story and more on our blog or on our fund drive
web page:

http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/

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Becoming a linguist was partly a matter of chance (or luck!) partly genuine
interest. As a junior high school student, I was convinced I wanted to become
a teacher. I guess I wanted to be a teacher of French, sometimes an elementary
school teacher. High school changed things, and as I turned 16 my interests
started fluctuating (almost weekly). I started considering many possible
paths: journalism (because I had a radio show with friends at the time),
philosophy (because epistemology was my favorite topic), classical languages
(I was in love with Latin and Greek), theatre (because I was playing theatre
with an amateur group, and asked by a professional group to join them)… too
many options, and I had to make a choice. At some point, I had to choose
between becoming an elementary school teacher, studying language and
literature, or a new undergraduate program at the University of Lisbon: a
program in Linguistics. I’m a literature freak, a compulsive reader, but I
never liked reading literary critics. I couldn’t picture myself in that world.
So, I was left with two choices. I found the structure of the new degree quite
interesting, although I had no clue about what formal linguistics was about. I
saw that there were courses in cognitive psychology, mathematical methods in
linguistics, sociolinguistics, and I found it a perfect cocktail! But still I
couldn’t make up my mind… So, I flipped a coin, and the choice of the coin was
Linguistics! I’m sorry I didn’t keep that coin as a little treasure.

(...)

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