29.4470, Support: Australian; Pragmatics; Comparative conversation analysis: PhD, University of Queensland

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Subject: 29.4470, Support: Australian; Pragmatics; Comparative conversation analysis: PhD, University of Queensland

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Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2018 10:38:04
From: Ilana Mushin [i.mushin at uq.edu.au]
Subject: Australian; Pragmatics; Comparative conversation analysis: PhD, University of Queensland, Australia

 Institution/Organization: University of Queensland 
Department: Languages and Cultures 
Web Address: https://languages-cultures.uq.edu.au 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: Pragmatics 
Comparative conversation analysis 

                      Australian 

Description:

Project: Conversational Interaction in Aboriginal and Remote Australia (CIARA)

The research project ‘Conversational Interaction in Aboriginal and Remote
Australia’ (CIARA) is funded by the Australian Research Council and will run
for four years from 2018-2022. The research team consists of Chief
Investigators Dr Joe Blythe (Macquarie University; project leader), Professor
Lesley Stirling (University of Melbourne), Associate Professor Ilana Mushin
(University of Queensland) and Associate Professor Rod Gardner (University of
Queensland), as well as Research Assistant Dr Francesco Possemato and
Macquarie PhD student Josua Dahmen. The project’s methodology is Comparative
Conversation Analysis, sometimes called Pragmatic Typology, and the overall
aim of the project is to investigate possible variation within the
interactional domain by comparing informal conversations conducted in four
Australian Aboriginal languages (Jaru, Gija, Murrinhpatha and Garrwa) with
conversations conducted in poorly documented varieties of non-Aboriginal
English in rural and remote outback regions of Australia. The project is
supported by a reference group of Aboriginal researchers.

We are seeking a student to undertake a PhD to be associated with but not
funded by the project, to be based at the University of Queensland under the
primary supervision of Associate Professor Ilana Mushin. We would expect the
student to apply for a standard PhD scholarship and be accepted by the
University through its standard application processes, where preference is
given to students working within ARC-funded projects, and their applications
can be considered outside of the usual deadlines for scholarship applications.

The student would work on a comparison of an aspect of conversation across at
least two of the Aboriginal languages under study in this project using a
Conversation Analysis/Interactional Linguistics approach. The student would
work with the existing corpus being developed for this project and not be
expect to undertake additional fieldwork to collect data. It is expected that
the student would however be able to transcribe and annotate existing
recordings as part of the PhD study. The specific topic of the PhD would be
open for discussion but would probably align with one of the themes of the
broader project: turn-taking and action sequences; conversational narrative;
and knowledge representation. We would welcome students who would like to
focus on practices of language mixing or shifts between languages in these
multilingual communities, as well as students who would like to focus on the
comparative use of grammar in conversation.

The student would be part of the project team and have the opportunity to
receive mentoring and intellectual support from project members and to
contribute to the larger project through taking part in workshops and
publications. The student would also benefit from being part of the large and
vibrant postgraduate student cohort within the Linguistics program in the
School of Languages & Cultures at the University of Queensland.

Prospective students should be eligible to apply for a PhD in Linguistics at
the University of Queensland, either as a domestic or an international
applicant (for more information see
https://languages-cultures.uq.edu.au/study/linguistics and
https://graduate-school.uq.edu.au/node/69/2#2 ). Students with a background in
Australian Aboriginal Languages, conversation analysis/interactional
linguistics, discourse analysis or pragmatics, could be particularly suited to
this PhD topic area, but anyone with an interest in this PhD is welcome to
contact us for more information.
 

Application Deadline: 03-Dec-2018 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Dr Ilana Mushin 
	School of Languages and Cultures 
	St Lucia Queensland 4070 
	Australia 
	
Web Address for Applications: https://graduate-school.uq.edu.au/node/69/2#2 

Contact Information: 
	Dr Ilana Mushin 
	i.mushin at uq.edu.au 
	Phone:+61 7 33656810  


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