The Institute of Applied Linguistics, Translation and Interpreting at Universität des Saarlandes (Saarbrücken, Germany) offers a half-time researcher position in the DFG-funded project ‘English-German contrasts in cohesion - Towards an empirically-based comparison’. 

The institute is part of the Faculty of Linguistics, Literary and Cultural Studies (Philosophische Fakultät II) and maintains close collaborative links with computational linguistics, psycholinguistics, phonetics and the philologies. The research group around Prof. Erich Steiner (http://fr46.uni-saarland.de/index.php?id=3434) has a focus in English translation studies and English linguistics with topic areas ranging from properties of translation over (contrastive) register analysis and English-German contrasts to text and corpus linguistics. 

The position is open for a Postdoc or PhD student. Main tasks include developing a bilingual corpus for English and German, annotating the corpus on several linguistic levels, developing a model of English-German contrasts in cohesion on the basis of the corpus linguistic analysis as well as supervising student annotators. Prerequisites are a relevant masters/ diploma degree or a PhD in translation or (applied) linguistics. A strong background in text linguistics as well as English-German contrastive linguistics is required; experience in corpus-based methods is desirable. A good command of German and English is mandatory. 

The salary is according to the German TV-L system (level 13). The position is for two years, the starting date is April 1, 2011. Depending on developments in the chair’s resources, there may be an opportunity to upgrade the position to a full one (100%). 
Universität des Saarlandes is an equal opportunities employer. Applications of women are thus especially encouraged; applications of disabled persons will be given preferential treatment to those of other candidates with equal qualifications. 

Applications should be sent to Erich Steiner (e.steiner@mx.uni-saarland.de) and include a letter of motivation, CV, list of academic publications, and copies of academic degree certificates (reference no. W320 (http://www.uni-saarland.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Campus/Service/Stellenausschreibung/Wissenschaftliches_Personal/w320.pdf)). 

The deadline for application is Dezember 15, 2010. For inquiries please contact Erich Steiner at the above e-mail address.

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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Erich Steiner
Englische Übersetzungswissenschaft

Universität des Saarlandes
Fachrichtung 4.6
Angewandte Sprachwissenschaft sowie Übersetzen und Dolmetschen
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D-66041 Saarbrücken

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E-Mail: e.steiner@mx.uni-saarland.de
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