LINGUIST List 33.3294
Thu Oct 27 2022
Support: Garifuna; Yaka (H.30); Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics; Typology: PhD, Leiden University
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Date: 26-Oct-2022
From: Maria Carmen Parafita Couto <m.parafita.couto
hum.leidenuniv.nl>
Subject: Garifuna; Yaka (H.30); Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics; Typology: PhD, Leiden University, Leiden, Netherlands
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Web Address:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/humanities/leiden-university-centre-for-linguistics Level: PhD
Institution/Organization: Leiden University
Specialty Areas: Anthropological Linguistics; General Linguistics; Language Documentation; Sociolinguistics; Typology
Required Language(s):
Garifuna (cab) Yaka (H.30)
Description:
Application link:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2022/kwartaal-3/22-67513049phd-researcher-in-linguistics-language-use-and-code-mixing The Faculty of Humanities, Leiden University Centre for Linguistics (LUCL) is looking for a PhD researcher in linguistics: 'language use and code-mixing' (1,0 FTE)
Vacancy number: 22-675 13049
Project description:
- The PhD candidate will carry out research in the framework of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) funded project "Crossing language borders " led by Prof. dr. E. O. Aboh (UvA), Prof. dr. F. K. Ameka (LUCL) dr M.C. Parafita Couto (LUCL & U. Vigo), and dr. A. Beaty-Martinez (McGill University).
- The project’s aim is to yield an integrated approach to multilingual speech that is both descriptively and explanatorily adequate. Despite extensive research in this area, no clear explanation emerges about the regularities underlying mixed speech. While most existing studies focus on Western communities in which Code Switching/ Code Mixing (CSCM) is socially disfavoured, this project investigates CSCM in multilingual communities, Benin (West Africa) and Belize (Central America), where multilingual discourse involving CSCM is the norm. We will use a multimethod, comparative approach, linking linguistic, cognitive and social factors to help us understand how multilinguals adapt to communicative demands of contexts where CSCM is the norm.
We are looking for a talented and creative junior scholar with a Master’s degree (or equivalent) who is fascinated by language use in a multilingual community, and is curious about how to describe and analyse CSCM phenomena from an interdisciplinary perspective. We expect you to conduct fieldwork in a multilingual community in Belize. You will collect data on CSCM, transcribe and annotate them digitally, and analyse the data in scholarly articles or book chapters as part of your thesis. You will present your results in (inter)national conferences, and participate in research activities within the project team and within the Leiden University of Linguistics as well as with collaborating groups at the Amsterdam Centre for Language and Communication (ACLC), UvA. At the end of the four years of appointment you will submit and defend your doctoral thesis.
Tasks and responsibilities:
- Submission of a PhD thesis within the period of appointment;
- Collection of community network data;
- Stimuli creation for speech elicitation tasks;
- Collection, transcription, and annotation of naturalistic CSCM data;
- Coding and analysis of naturalistic and elicited CSCM data;
- Participating in meetings of the project research group and developing a shared database;
- Publishing co-authored and single-authored peer reviewed articles as part of the thesis;
- Presenting intermediate research results at (inter)national workshops/conferences;
- Organising knowledge dissemination and training activities;
- Teach courses at bachelor’s and/or assist at master’s level in the 2nd and 3rd year (0,2 FTE per year).
- Participation in the Research School and Faculty of Humanities PhD training programmes.
Selection criteria:
- A completed Master's degree in linguistics or related fields (e.g., sociolinguistics, grammatical description, psycholinguistics, anthropology of language, language and education).
- Excellent research and field or lab work skills demonstrated by your Master's thesis and a demonstrable capacity to develop a track record of publishing in high-ranking journals and/or with leading presses;
- A strong cooperative attitude and willingness to engage in collaborative research;
- Enthusiasm for communicating academic research to non-academic audiences;
- Excellent command of Spanish and/or English, and also knowledge of Belizean Kriol and/or a Mayan language or any other local language.
Applications Deadline: 06-Nov-2022
Web Address for Applications:
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/vacancies/2022/kwartaal-3/22-67513049phd-researcher-in-linguistics-language-use-and-code-mixing Contact Information:
Dr. M. Carmen Parafita Cotuo
m.parafita.couto
hum.leidenuniv.nl
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