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Dear all,<br>
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Apologies for cross-posting. This is an exciting opportunity:<br>
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Applications are invited for a fully-funded three year PhD to commence in October 2019.<br>
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Misogyny and homophobia in online amateur translation communities<br>
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This PhD offers a fantastic opportunity for a candidate interested in
investigating hate speech in online fan communities to undertake new
research on misogyny and homophobia in fansubbing and fan translation
forums, such as Subsfactory or YYETS, and YouTube translation
communities (e.g. Vietsub). While we anticipate that the successful
applicant will refine the research questions and choose case studies,
it’s expected that the project will provide an account of the language
used in bullying or hate speech in these communities and investigate the
forms and practice of mediation that have been used to minimise it.<br>
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The successful applicant will explore how linguistic discrimination is
carried over from the offline world into the online world, and how
aggressors construct their online identity, both individually and as
part of a group. Existing datasets collected from Reddit as part of the
project ‘The Language of Cybersexism’ will provide opportunities for
statistical comparison with the linguistic features seen in fansubbing
communities.<br>
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This is an exciting opportunity for interdisciplinary study that touches
on aspects of linguistics, fandom, translation, sociology, criminology
and gender studies. The successful applicant will benefit from the
supervisors’ interdisciplinary experience of fan communities,
translation, corpus linguistics, gender and sexual discrimination,
discourse analysis, law, as well as their experience of dealing with
research ethics.<br>
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Candidate specification<br>
Candidates must be UK or EU residents and hold a good honours degree
(2:1 or above) from a recognised higher education institution.<br>
We require English language proficiency at a minimum of IELTS band 6.5 with no component score below 6.0.<br>
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Additionally, we welcome applications from candidates who have native or
near-native competence in a language other than English (preferably
French or Italian) with a 2:1 (or equivalent) at bachelor’s degree in
applied linguistics, media studies, or translation studies (or related
disciplines). Ideally, candidates will have a master’s degree in a
relevant area, excellent IT skills, especially webscraping, as well as
familiarity with corpus-based discourse analysis.<br>
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Enquiries and application<br>
Please contact Dr Jonathan Evans (<a href="mailto:jonathan.evans@port.ac.uk" target="_blank"><span class="gmail-m_-19860558626261821gmail-il">jonathan.evans@port.ac.uk</span></a>) to discuss your interest before you apply, quoting both the project code and the project title.<br>
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When you are ready to apply, you can use our online application form,
making sure you submit a personal statement, proof of your degrees and
grades, details of two referees, proof of your English language
proficiency and an up-to-date CV.<br>
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Please also submit a research proposal (up to 1000 words), detailing how you would develop this project:<br>
• What research questions would you pose?<br>
• How would you design the project?<br>
• What research methods would you use?<br>
• How would you engage with/ build on existing research?<br>
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Our ‘How to Apply’ page offers further guidance on the PhD application process.<br>
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If you want to be considered for this funded PhD opportunity you must quote project code SLAL4360219 when applying.<br>
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More details here: <a href="https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/misogyny-and-homophobia-in-online-amateur-translation-communities/?p104350" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.findaphd.com/phds/project/misogyny-and-homophobia-in-online-amateur-translation-communities/?p104350</a></div><div><br></div><div>Best wishes,</div><div><br></div><div>Alessia</div><div><br></div><div>--</div><div><br></div><div>
<span><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">Dr Alessia Tranchese<br>Senior Lecturer in Communication and Applied Linguistics<br>School of Languages and Area Studies<br>University of Portsmouth<br>p: +44 (0)23 9284 6044</font></span></span></div>
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