27.2080, Featured Linguist: Joanna Błaszczak

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LINGUIST List: Vol-27-2080. Fri May 06 2016. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 27.2080, Featured Linguist: Joanna Błaszczak

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Date: Fri, 06 May 2016 09:45:32
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Featured Linguist: Joanna Błaszczak

 
Dear LINGUIST List Readers,

We are pleased to present you our next featured linguist, Joanna Błaszczak,
for Fund Drive 2016.

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How did I become a linguist?

Well, my parents wanted me to become a doctor one day, a woman in a white coat
examining patients, using diverse medical instruments, conducting studies. I
myself would have rather preferred to work with animals (I love animals, dogs
are my favorite ☺). I imagined myself travelling around the world, living in a
jungle with wild animals, observing and studying the behavior of chimpanzees
and the like. What has become of it? Depending on how you view it, the answer
to this question could be: NOTHING, as I became neither a doctor nor an animal
researcher or world traveller, or BOTH in some sense. Do you wonder how this
latter answer may be sensical at all? I am indeed a world traveller, maybe not
(always) in a physical sense, but as a linguist you have the opportunity of
travelling around the world through different languages. Originally, I wanted
to study the behavior of animals, but studying the structure of languages,
trying to understand the principles behind such structures, can be equally
fascinating. My parents wanted me to be a doctor. Well, I do not cure sick
people but still I have something to do with ‟patients” and medical equipment
while conducting psycholinguistic experiments.

But let me go first a few (actually much more than ‟a few” ☺) years back and
tell you how all this started.

(...)

Read more:

http://blog.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/featured-linguist-joanna-blaszczak/






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