Occupation Atlaslinguist
ESCO · http://data.europa.eu/esco/occupation/a9c7a04d-807a-41b5-b441-87c73c73c9c5
linguist
Linguists study languages scientifically. They master languages and can interpret them in terms of their grammatical, semantic, and phonetic characteristics. They research the evolution of language and the way it is used by societies.
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Typically associated skills
Essential (37)
ESCO's essential and optional tags describe how its taxonomy relates a skill to this occupation. They are not the essential functions of a job under the ADA, which an employer determines for its own role.
- apply for research funding
- apply research ethics and scientific integrity principles in research activities
- apply scientific methods
- communicate with a non-scientific audience
- conduct research across disciplines
- demonstrate disciplinary expertise
- develop professional network with researchers and scientists
- disseminate results to the scientific community
- draft scientific or academic papers and technical documentation
- evaluate research activities
- grammar
- increase the impact of science on policy and society
- integrate gender dimension in research
- interact professionally in research and professional environments
- linguistics
- manage findable accessible interoperable and reusable data
- manage intellectual property rights
- manage open publications
- manage personal professional development
- manage research data
- mentor individuals
- operate open source software
- perform project management
- perform scientific research
- phonetics
- promote open innovation in research
- promote the participation of citizens in scientific and research activities
- promote the transfer of knowledge
- publish academic research
- scientific research methodology
- semantics
- speak different languages
- spelling
- study acquisition of language
- synthesise information
- think abstractly
- write scientific publications
Optional (33)
- anthropology
- apply blended learning
- apply teaching strategies
- computer engineering
- computer science
- conduct field work
- conduct public surveys
- cooperate in linguistic process steps
- cultural history
- develop scientific theories
- develop technical glossaries
- develop terminology databases
- forensic linguistics
- history
- history of literature
- improve translated texts
- interview focus groups
- journalism
- literature
- manage ICT semantic integration
- philology
- postediting
- practical lexicography
- pronunciation techniques
- psycholinguistics
- teach in academic or vocational contexts
- teach languages
- terminology
- theoretical lexicography
- translate language concepts
- use consulting techniques
- use word processing software
- write research proposals
O*NET equivalents
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