31.1995, Support: Slavic; Russian; Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

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Subject: 31.1995, Support: Slavic; Russian; Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, UiT The Arctic University of Norway

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Date: Wed, 17 Jun 2020 12:51:22
From: Laura A. Janda [laura.janda at uit.no]
Subject: Slavic; Russian; Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Norway

 Institution/Organization: UiT The Arctic University of Norway 
Department: Department of Language and Culture (ISK) 
Web Address: https://uit.no/enhet/isk 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Text/Corpus Linguistics 
Media Studies 
Required Language(s): Russian (rus)

                      Slavic 

Description:

PhD in Russian Linguistics - Language of perceived threats in Russian Media

A PhD position is available at the Department of Language and Culture (ISK)
which belongs to the Faculty of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education
(HSL). The position is part of the THREAT-DEFUSER project which explores the
role of “soft” information strategies propagated through mass and social media
that can be used in hybrid warfare. We investigate Norwegian perceptions of
Russia, as well as Russian perceptions of Norway, in the context of Norwegian
national security.

The successful candidate will:
- Assemble a so-called “seed” vocabulary of dominant words and collocations
that are symptomatic of news articles/broadcasts that highlight threats in
Russian.
- Learn to use functions such as semantic vectors and word embeddings in
resources such as the Russian corpus in the Aranea Family of Gigaword Web
Corpora and Collocations Colligations Corpora for Russian, with the aim of
enhancing the seed vocabulary.
- Further enhance seed vocabulary by extracting texts for analysis and
comparison with reference corpora.
- Identify texts with prominent threat-related content that can be tracked for
connectivity in social media.
- Identify texts with alternative messages for comparison.
- Assist others in assembling and enhancing similar seed vocabularies and
identifying texts for English, Norwegian, and North Saami Write up results in
dissertation/articles for scholarly journals.
- Assist in production of a webpage and podcast series to disseminate results.
- Assist in organizing conferences and outreach activities.

Work place is Campus Tromsø.

The position is for a period of four years. The nominal length of the PhD
program is three years. The fourth year is distributed as 25 % each year, and
will consist of teaching and other duties for the Faculty of Humanities,
Social Sciences and Education.

Please use the application link below to find the complete announcements and
to apply for this position.
 

Web Address for Applications: https://www.jobbnorge.no/en/available-jobs/job/185277/phd-in-russian-linguistics-language-of-perceived-threats-in-russian-media 

Contact Information: 
	Professor Laura A. Janda
	laura.janda at uit.no  


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