11.1062, Jobs: Sheffield Usage Survey/Research assistantship

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Subject: 11.1062, Jobs: Sheffield Usage Survey/Research assistantship

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Date:  Tue, 9 May 2000 10:38:44 +0100
From:  "A.R.Linn" <A.R.Linn at sheffield.ac.uk>
Subject:  Survey of Sheffield Usage: Research assistantship, U of Sheffield

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Date:  Tue, 9 May 2000 10:38:44 +0100
From:  "A.R.Linn" <A.R.Linn at sheffield.ac.uk>
Subject:  Survey of Sheffield Usage: Research assistantship, U of Sheffield

RESEARCH ASSISTANTSHIP
SURVEY OF SHEFFIELD USAGE

Applications are invited for a research assistantship connected to
the Survey of Sheffield Usage materials housed in the National
Centre for English Cultural Tradition (NATCECT) at the University of
Sheffield. The successful candidate would be a member of the
Department of English Language and Linguistics and would report
to a small steering group made up of staff of the department and of
NATCECT.

The Sheffield Usage material was collected during the early 1980s
and has recently been supplemented by further lexical material
from the Sheffield area. The original material provides a valuable
tape-recorded catalogue of Sheffield usage from 100 informants,
discussed in a series of student projects, but stored in an ad hoc
way, such that it is not apparent which tapes relate to which
projects. There is however material here for a range of research -
dialectological, sociolinguistic and phonological in the first
instance, but of interest to anyone concerned with regional urban
varieties of English. Sheffield is unique in having an unbroken
history of dialectological study for 250 years, and this material
forms an important part of that tradition.

The initial task of the research assistant would be to make working
copies of the recordings and to organise this material so that it
could be used widely for research and for student work alike. Part
of this task would be reconstructing the background to the
individual recordings and to the informants and the linguistic
varieties they exemplify. In addition to copying and organising the
material, the research assistant will do what they can to publicise
it and generate a research culture around it. It is expected that the
person appointed will begin to carry out their own research using
the resource, possibly in conjunction with the other dialectological
resources housed in NATCECT. A published outcome will be
expected.

This is a half-time post and would suit either a post-doctoral
student or a recent graduate with an appropriate linguistics
background who is considering research focusing on regional
varieties of English. Salary will be paid pro rata at an appropriate
point on the AUT-negotiated scale for research staff. It may be
possible for a suitably qualified appointee to supplement their
income through teaching in the Department of English Language
and Linguistics. Further information is available from Dr Andrew
Linn (address below) to whom applications (consisting of a CV,
names and addresses of two potential referees, and a letter
proposing the research use you would make of the material) should
be sent by Friday 2 June 2000.

Department of English Language and Linguistics
University of Sheffield
Sheffield S10 2TN
UK

E-mail: 	A.R.Linn at Sheffield.ac.uk
Tel: 		0114 222 0216
Fax:		0114 276 8251



__________________________________________________
Dr Andrew R. Linn
Department of English Language and Linguistics
The University of Sheffield
GB-Sheffield S10 2TN, England

Tel: +44 (0)114 222 0216
Fax: +44 (0)114 276 8251

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