By: Kumudini Menda
Key words: Entrepreneur, translation, career, commercial, language professional, economy
Starting with teaching or training the language, there are several alternate career options a language professional can have. To name them a few are, voice over, writing, web designing, content writing, citizen journalism, translation, transcreation, interpretation etc. Depending upon their ability, expertise and interest, language professionals can be absorbed in the range of organizations including universities and colleges, high tech companies, research institutions, consulting firms, government, and the military.
Given below are some of the professions which are all language related but there are many differences between the training, skills, and talents needed for each of them. Some of them require in-depth knowledge of one or more foreign languages and for some professions not necessarily you need to speak foreign languages, but such knowledge can be useful for them.
Translation
The job of the translator is to translate the written material from one language to another. This career demands the ability to write and express very well like native or near natives in the target language.
Interpretation
Interpreters help in interpretation spoken words at conferences, meetings, trials, hospitals and anywhere else that interpretation is needed, at times simultaneous or giving a translation after speakers have finished speaking.
Language teaching and training
Language teaching may involve teaching a foreign language to students from primary/elementary schools to universities and colleges.
Voice over
It is also known as off camera or off stage commentary. It is a production technique where a voice is not a part of narrative but is used in Radio, TV production, film making and other presentations to represent a character or to provide information to an audience or user.
Transcreation
This is the process of adapting a message from one language to another, while maintaining its intent, style, tone and context.
Linguistics
Linguists mainly do the scientific study of the nature and characteristics of human language.
Forensic linguist
Forensic linguists perform language analysis on emergency calls, suicide letters, threat communication and social media during legal proceedings for law firms, the police and/or the government to help solve crime. Other areas they may be involved in as a forensic linguist include trademark disputes, author identification and language analyses of asylum seekers. Forensic linguists working with the CIA or FBI in the US would work on matters of national security.
In the present scenario where socialism is collapsing, the economies are becoming more Capitalistic. Hence rich is getting richer and everyone else is getting poorer, inequality is increasing and the power and the money is concentrated among the few. And these few are entrepreneurs!
Let’s discus how, a language professional can be a better entrepreneur. From discovering new problems, making better decisions, to improving the communication skills — learning a foreign language can be a great help to an individual to think differently to increase his/ her chances of success.
The creation of new business organization is a contributing factor for social and economical growth of the nation as it creates new employment directly and indirectly. This way an entrepreneur provides Economic prosperity to the country which is the keystone of commercial development. Further, the commercial development of any country is directly related to the social welfare and infrastructure facilities, giving better living conditions to its citizens.
I won’t be exaggerating, if I say that entrepreneurship is seen as a saviour for our society and economy.
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Reference:
https://semioticon.com/semiotix/2010/03/the-translator-as-entrepreneur-an-indian-perspective
