30.3050, Support: Sociolinguistics; English: Open, University of Hong Kong

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LINGUIST List: Vol-30-3050. Wed Aug 07 2019. ISSN: 1069 - 4875.

Subject: 30.3050, Support: Sociolinguistics; English: Open, University of Hong Kong

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Date: Wed, 07 Aug 2019 12:27:52
From: Brian King [bwking at hku.hk]
Subject: Sociolinguistics; English: Open, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

 Institution/Organization: University of Hong Kong 
Department: School of English 
Web Address: https://english.hku.hk/ 

Level: Open 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Sociolinguistics 
 
Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

One PhD/MPhil Studentship in Sociolinguistics/Language and Health
Communication at University of Hong Kong

Available: Starting date 1st September 2020
Application first deadline 31st October 2019 

The School of English (https://english.hku.hk/) at the University of Hong Kong
is offering a PhD/MPhil Studentship in Sociolinguistics/Language and Health
Communication. The School’s vibrant research culture and the rapidly expanding
cohort of full-time research students from many countries provides a
stimulating intellectual environment. 

The successful candidate will be expected to start in September 2020, to
coincide with Dr. Brian King’s larger research project, “Language use and the
intersex body: Communicating sex variations in multilingual Hong Kong”. 

Candidates must have a suitable degree in a relevant subject area, and
proficiency in Chinese reading, preferably those who can speak Cantonese. A
condition of the award is that the candidate must work on Dr. King’s project,
completing work for the principal investigator in addition to their own
PhD/MPhil project work on a related topic (see below). 

The following research questions will be addressed in the broader
interview-based project:
- What discourse and rhetorical framings do people with intersex traits,
laypeople, and health care professionals in Hong Kong deploy to report their
use of the language available to them in English and Cantonese for referring
to intersex/ disorders of sex development (DSD)?
- How do they ‘speak back to’ or ‘trouble’ language via metapragmatic
evaluations of the use and interpretation of terminology in the contexts most
relevant to them?
- What ideologies are revealed and/or espoused during such metapragmatic talk
about intersex/DSD among all participants in the study?

Secondary data will also be collected, including a range of activist and
medical-organization documents (such as information brochures, standardized
letters sent to parents of children with intersex traits, and counseling
protocols for parents of children with intersex traits). In addition,
mediatized data (print and broadcast media, online, etc) will form an
important aspect of the database and could constitute an ancillary thesis
research topic for the RPg student on “Mediatization of intersex in Hong
Kong”. These data will also be analyzed according to the research questions
guiding this study, with a focus on the language used in the documents.

If you have a first degree from a university where the language of teaching
and examination is not English, you must have obtained a score of 550 or above
in the TOEFL (Test of English as Foreign Language) and a score of 4 or above
in the TWE (Test of Written English). We also accept the International English
Language Testing System (IELTS) but you must have at least a score of 7 with
no subtest lower than 5.5. You will be expected to have a good academic
reference.

To apply, please email:
- Your CV, 
- A 2-3000-word research proposal, and 
- Your proof of English score (if applicable) 
to Brian W. King (bwking at hku.hk) by 31st October 2019. 

To speed up the process, please ask your referee to send one reference letter
by email directly and confidentially to Dr. King by the same deadline. The
successful candidate will be invited to apply by 1st December 2019 for a
3-year full-time PhD programme (who should already hold a research master’s
degree (e.g., MPhil) for admission to a 3-year PhD programme), or a 2-year
full-time MPhil programme, offered by the University of Hong Kong. The
University of Hong Kong will provide financial support to the successful
candidate. For details, please refer to the University webpage at
https://www.gradsch.hku.hk/gradsch/prospective-students/scholarship-funding-an
d-fees
 

Contact Information: 
	Dr Brian W. King
	bwking at hku.hk  


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