<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type>
<META content="MSHTML 5.00.2919.6307" name=GENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial><FONT size=2><FONT size=2><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE">Two
PhD studentships in <B style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal">German
Linguistics</B> available from October 1, 2001<?xml:namespace prefix = o ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></FONT>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE"> </SPAN><FONT
size=3><SPAN lang=DE>1. Sociolinguistics / Dialectology of 21st-century German,
based at the University of Wales Aberystwyth</SPAN></FONT></FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE"></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE">Supervisor:
Dr Winifred Davies.</SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE">2.
Historical Linguistics / Sociolinguistics of 17th-century German, based at the
University of Bristol<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE">Supervisor:
Dr Nils Langer<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE">The
AHRB has awarded Aberystwyth and Bristol a research grant of £105,234 spread
over three years from October 1, 2001, for the project 'The history and current
status of "bad language" as a concept in German folk linguistics.' We are
therefore looking for two PhD students to join the research team which will be
based at Aberystwyth and Bristol.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE">The
tuition fees and maintenance costs of the successful applicants (for three
years) will be covered by the research award.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">The award contains provision
for the successful candidates to spend two separate periods of three months
collecting data or conducting archival research in Germany (travel and
subsistence will be paid).<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">Each doctoral student will
have access to a computer as well as to office
space.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">The Aberystwyth-based PhD
student will carry out a study of lay knowledge of and perception of linguistic
norms in modern German on the basis of an empirical sociolinguistic
investigation in a particular dialect area.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt">The Bristol-based PhD
student will be investigating the origins of ‘bad’ German by examining
seventeenth-century grammars with the aim of identifying when and how ‘bad’
German was stigmatised by language users and language
teachers.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE">Applicants
should have a good (2i or higher) first degree in German, and should preferably
have some knowledge of linguistics. Usually, they will hold, or be about to
complete, a first postgraduate degree in German or Linguistics (normally an MA
or MPhil). Further terms and conditions are set out in the AHRB’s Guide to
Postgraduate Studentships in the Humanities (<SPAN class=MsoHyperlink><SPAN
style="COLOR: blue">www.ahrb.ac.uk</SPAN></SPAN>). <o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><FONT face="Times New Roman"><SPAN lang=DE
style="FONT-SIZE: 12pt; mso-bidi-font-size: 10.0pt; mso-ansi-language: DE">If
you wish to apply, please send a letter of application; CV; all undergraduate
and postgraduate marks available; and names of two referees to Dr Wini Davies,
University of Wales Aberystwyth, Ceredigion SY23 3DY, Wales. Informal enquiries
can be made to Dr Davies (tel.: 01970-622557; e-mail: <SPAN
class=MsoHyperlink><SPAN style="COLOR: blue"><A
href="mailto:wid@aber.ac.uk">wid@aber.ac.uk</A></SPAN></SPAN>) or Dr Langer
(tel.: 0117-9841; e-mail: nils.langer@bris.ac.uk). The closing date for
applications is June 22, 2001. Interviews will take place in the second week of
July.<o:p></o:p></SPAN></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal></FONT><FONT size=2>Dr Wini Davies,<BR>Adran Ieithoedd
Ewropeaidd/Dept of European Langs,<BR>P.C.A./U.W.A.,<BR>Aberystwyth SY23
3DY<BR>Cymru/Wales.</FONT></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2>Tel: 01970-622557<BR>Ffacs/Fax:
01970-622553<BR></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>