28.1531, Featured Linguist: Meet Robert A. Coté

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LINGUIST List: Vol-28-1531. Tue Mar 28 2017. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 28.1531, Featured Linguist: Meet Robert A. Coté

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Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2017 13:37:05
From: LINGUIST List [linguist at linguistlist.org]
Subject: Featured Linguist: Meet Robert A. Coté

 
Dear subscribers,

We are pleased to present you our next featured linguist of the 2017 Fund
Drive: Robert A. Coté! Read his story and more on our blog or on our fund
drive web page:

http://funddrive.linguistlist.org/

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I am not your typical linguist. In fact, my first degree is in meteorology
with a minor in math! Despite this, I have always been fascinated with
languages - most likely because I grew up in a multilingual environment: my
father and his parents spoke Quebecois, my maternal grandmother spoke
Pugliese, and my maternal grandfather spoke Neapolitan. Clearly, hearing
people around me speak something other than English was normal for me from a
very young age, but I never gave much thought to the rich sociolinguistic
world in which I lived. I always enjoyed reading and writing as well, so it
only seems natural to me that I became an applied linguist.

How I discovered the wonderful world of LINGUIST List is even more
interesting. I had completed my PhD coursework, comprehensive exams,
dissertation proposal, and data collection, and I was working full-time as an
administrator at an English-medium college in the United Arab Emirates. Like
many doctoral students, I had really grown tired of my research and had fallen
out of interest with academia. One of my professors suggested I look into
writing a book review, not only to read some current literature related to my
area of research, but more importantly, to practice the type of writing
required for a dissertation. This was probably the best advice I received in
my entire 10-year doctoral process.

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Read more:
http://blog.linguistlist.org/fund-drive/featured-linguist-robert-a-cote/

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