31.2615, Support: English; Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics: PhD, Humboldt University of Berlin

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Subject: 31.2615, Support: English; Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics: PhD, Humboldt University of Berlin

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Date: Wed, 19 Aug 2020 12:37:30
From: Mingya Liu [mingya.liu at hu-berlin.de]
Subject: English; Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics: PhD, Humboldt University of Berlin, Germany

 Institution/Organization: Humboldt University of Berlin 
Department: Department of English and American Studies 
Web Address: https://www.angl.hu-berlin.de 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics; Sociolinguistics 
 
Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

The Research Group of Dr. Mingya Liu at the Department of English and American
Studies invites applications for 1 PhD position (Reference number: DR/143/20)
to be filled on a fixed-term basis of 3 years (01.01.2021-31.12.2023). 

The candidate is to participate in the research activities within the
DFG-funded research project “Pragmatic Functions and Effects of Register
Variation and Switch: a Register approach to negation and polarity” (RATNAP,
for more information, see: https://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de/projects/a07/).
Responsibilities include particularly the investigation of negation and
polarity items, and the publication of the results. 

- The candidate is expected to pursue a PhD in linguistics. 
- The RATNAP is one of the participating projects in the Collaborative
Research Center CRC1412 (in German, SFB) ‘Register: Language Users’ Knowledge
of Situational-Functional Variation’ (http://sfb1412.hu-berlin.de) at the
Humboldt-University of Berlin and the Leibniz-Centre General Linguistics
(ZAS). The CRC has an Integrated Graduate School serving, among others, the
Ph.D. students and early career postdocs in the CRC.
- The position will be part-time (65%); salary and social benefits are
determined by the German public service pay scale (E13 TV-L).

Requirements:
- Applicants should have completed an excellent academic degree
(Master/Diploma) in linguistics, cognitive science, psychology or related
fields by the planned start date of 01.01.2021. PhD holders are not eligible
for this position.
- Knowledge of formal semantic- and pragmatic theories, and experience with
sociolinguistic or psycholinguistic methods (experimental design, data
analysis) is mandatory, as well as an excellent command of English. 
- The candidate should have skills of taking initiative, collaboration and
time management.
- Knowledge of a variety of English (e.g. Black English, Hong Kong English,
etc.) or experience with corpus-linguistic methods is not required, but a
plus.

To Apply:
Please send your application with the following documents by e-mail (using the
subject line: DR/143/20: your full name) in one single PDF-file to
mingya.liu at hu-berlin.de:
- Motivation letter,
- CV,
- Certificates,
- Names of 2 references.

HU is seeking to increase the proportion of women in research and teaching,
and specifically encourages qualified female scholars to apply. Severely
disabled applicants with equivalent qualifications will be given preferential
consideration. People with an immigration background are specifically
encouraged to apply. Since we will not return your documents, please submit
copies in the application only. 

Further information can be obtained from Dr. Mingya Liu
(mingya.liu at hu-berlin.de). Please visit our website
(https://www.hu-berlin.de/de/service/arbeit/stellen) which gives you access to
the legally binding German version.
 

Application Deadline: 02-Sep-2020 

Mailing Address for Applications:
	Attn: Prof. Dr. Mingya Liu 
	Unter den Linden 6 
	Humboldt University of Berlin 
	Berlin 10099 
	Germany 
	
Web Address for Applications: https://www.hu-berlin.de/de/service/arbeit/stellen 

Contact Information: 
	Dr. Mingya Liu 
	mingya.liu at hu-berlin.de  


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