Career as Depicted in Popular (or Unpopular) Culture
Read:
The Southern Reach Trilogy
Language and Politics by Noam Chomsky (or really any book he's written)
Eats, Shoots & Leaves
The Lexicographer's Dilemma: The Evolution of "Proper" English, from Shakespeare to South Park, by Jack Lynch
See:
Star Wars. C3PO is a translator.
That clip of the fake translator who embarrassed president Obama.
Mean Girls. People have used it to study the "language of girlhood."
My Fair Lady