Faculty of Arts
Vacancy number: 23.19.10
Closing date: 1 February 2011
Job description
As a PhD student you will investigate how native speakers of Spanish communicate with native speakers of Dutch in English, under different conditions (requiring formal or informal speech). You will focus on how Spanish speakers adapt their pronunciation, how they prevent or solve miscommuniciation, how intelligible they are, and on how they are judged by native speakers of Dutch.
For this, you will collect a corpus of English produced by Spanish students communicating with a native speaker of Dutch of their own social status, and talking to a group of native speakers of Dutch and Spanish of the same and higher social status. You will provide an orthographic transcription of this corpus and then analyse this corpus with regard to pragmatic aspects (how is miscommunication prevented and solved?), acoustic aspects (what are the qualitative and quantitative aspects of English spoken by Spanish language users) and receptive aspects (what are the consequences of deviant patterns on comprehension and on speaker evaluation?). These corpus studies will be supplemented with experimental studies.
You will write at least four papers on the basis of this research for high-impact international journals, and also present the research at international conferences.
Requirements
You should:
- have a Master's degree in English, Linguistics, or (Business) Communication;
- have excellent writing and speaking skills in English;
- have thorough knowledge of linguistics and be highly motivated;
- be able to quickly learn new theories, research methods, and methods for data analysis.
Knowledge of Spanish and phonetics will be considered as an advantage.
Organization
Radboud University Nijmegen is strategically located in Europe and is one of the leading academic communities in the Netherlands. Established in 1923 and situated in the oldest city of The Netherlands, it has nine faculties and enrolls over 17.500 students in 107 study programmes.
The Faculty of Arts consists of ten departments in the areas of language and culture, history, history of arts, linguistics and business communication, which together cater for about 2.900 students and collaborate closely in teaching and research. The departments of Linguistics and Professional Communication, which will host this PhD-project, are two of the largest departments within the Faculty of Arts.
As a PhD student you will be a member of the Centre for Language Studies, which hosts all linguistic research carried out at the Faculty of Arts.
Website: www.ru.nl/cls
Conditions of employment
Employment: 1,0 fte
The gross starting salary is €2,042 per month based on full-time employment.
The total duration of the contract is 3.5 years. You will be offered an initial contract for 18 months with the possibility of extension by 2 years.
Other Information
Please submit a cover letter and an up to date CV.
Additional Information
Dr. M.T.C. Ernestus, Associate Professor
Telephone: +31 24 3612970
E-mail: m.ernestus@let.ru.nl
Prof. Dr. M.J.P. van Mulken
Telephone: +31 24 3612923
E-mail: m.v.mulken@let.ru.nl
Application
You can apply for the job (mention the vacancy number 23.19.10) before 1 February 2011 by sending your application -preferably by email- to:
RU Nijmegen, Faculty of Arts, Dr. M.T.C. Ernestus
P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH, Nijmegen (NL)
E-mail: m.ernestus@let.ru.nl
Vacancy number: 23.19.10
Closing date: 1 February 2011
Job description
As a PhD student you will investigate how native speakers of Spanish communicate with native speakers of Dutch in English, under different conditions (requiring formal or informal speech). You will focus on how Spanish speakers adapt their pronunciation, how they prevent or solve miscommuniciation, how intelligible they are, and on how they are judged by native speakers of Dutch.
For this, you will collect a corpus of English produced by Spanish students communicating with a native speaker of Dutch of their own social status, and talking to a group of native speakers of Dutch and Spanish of the same and higher social status. You will provide an orthographic transcription of this corpus and then analyse this corpus with regard to pragmatic aspects (how is miscommunication prevented and solved?), acoustic aspects (what are the qualitative and quantitative aspects of English spoken by Spanish language users) and receptive aspects (what are the consequences of deviant patterns on comprehension and on speaker evaluation?). These corpus studies will be supplemented with experimental studies.
You will write at least four papers on the basis of this research for high-impact international journals, and also present the research at international conferences.
Requirements
You should:
- have a Master's degree in English, Linguistics, or (Business) Communication;
- have excellent writing and speaking skills in English;
- have thorough knowledge of linguistics and be highly motivated;
- be able to quickly learn new theories, research methods, and methods for data analysis.
Knowledge of Spanish and phonetics will be considered as an advantage.
Organization
Radboud University Nijmegen is strategically located in Europe and is one of the leading academic communities in the Netherlands. Established in 1923 and situated in the oldest city of The Netherlands, it has nine faculties and enrolls over 17.500 students in 107 study programmes.
The Faculty of Arts consists of ten departments in the areas of language and culture, history, history of arts, linguistics and business communication, which together cater for about 2.900 students and collaborate closely in teaching and research. The departments of Linguistics and Professional Communication, which will host this PhD-project, are two of the largest departments within the Faculty of Arts.
As a PhD student you will be a member of the Centre for Language Studies, which hosts all linguistic research carried out at the Faculty of Arts.
Website: www.ru.nl/cls
Conditions of employment
Employment: 1,0 fte
The gross starting salary is €2,042 per month based on full-time employment.
The total duration of the contract is 3.5 years. You will be offered an initial contract for 18 months with the possibility of extension by 2 years.
Other Information
Please submit a cover letter and an up to date CV.
Additional Information
Dr. M.T.C. Ernestus, Associate Professor
Telephone: +31 24 3612970
E-mail: m.ernestus@let.ru.nl
Prof. Dr. M.J.P. van Mulken
Telephone: +31 24 3612923
E-mail: m.v.mulken@let.ru.nl
Application
You can apply for the job (mention the vacancy number 23.19.10) before 1 February 2011 by sending your application -preferably by email- to:
RU Nijmegen, Faculty of Arts, Dr. M.T.C. Ernestus
P.O. Box 310, 6500 AH, Nijmegen (NL)
E-mail: m.ernestus@let.ru.nl
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