31.2869, Support: Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, University of South Carolina

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Subject: 31.2869, Support: Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, University of South Carolina

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Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 17:37:27
From: Stanley Dubinsky [dubinsky at sc.edu]
Subject: Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD, University of South Carolina, USA

 Institution/Organization: University of South Carolina 
Department: Linguistics Program, English Department, Political Science Department 
Web Address: https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/linguistics/index.php 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 

Description:

Call for applications for PhD student participation in the Language Conflict
Project:
The Language Conflict Project is an interdisciplinary research collaborative
across Political Science, Linguistics, and Digital Humanities that studies the
relationship between language difference and human conflict. Prospective
students interested in pursuing research in the Language Conflict Project are
invited to apply to the University of South Carolina PhD program. Please
contact one of the project leaders with any questions.

Departments and Project Leads:
- Linguistics: Stanley Dubinsky, dubinsky at sc.edu 
- English Language and Literature: Michael Gavin, mgavin at mailbox.sc.edu 
- Political Science: Juan Tellez, tellezj at mailbox.sc.edu

Description of the Language Conflict Project:
The Language Conflict Project’s goal is to advance our understanding of the
mechanisms by which language-based conflicts cause intrastate ethnic
fragmentation, political polarization, and even political violence. Our
research questions include:
- What are the politics and societal impacts of language difference? 
- Do different kinds of linguistic differences (e.g. phonological, lexical,
syntactic, orthographic) have different societal consequences? 
- What sorts of language laws, policies, and social conditions ameliorate
conflict, and which exacerbate them? 
- How do ethnic grievances circulate online, and with what consequences? 
- How can computational, text-as-data approaches to the study of politics
inform the study of language conflicts in particular? 

In addition to an exploration of the research questions outlined above, the
Project is also engaged in the construction of the Language Conflict
Encyclopedia, a curated digital source of information about ethnolinguistic
conflicts and language rights violations around the world, information not
readily available elsewhere.

Description of Language Conflict Project Participation:
Opportunities to contribute to the project will be many faceted, and students
who are admitted to the PhD program in one of the three relevant fields of
study and who are selected to join the project will participate in a variety
of ways. In addition to or as part of their regular program of study, graduate
students are encouraged to develop and implement their own independent
research.

Participation can include:
- Designing and applying data-gathering techniques for investigations into
particular conflicts, conflict types, and conflict regions,
- Authoring or co-authoring research papers to emerge from the project, and
- Assisting with researching, writing, and editing entries for the Language
Conflict Encyclopedia.

Application and Funding:
Applicants responding to this call must apply and be accepted to the Ph.D.
program in one of the three departments listed below. Funding will be provided
through the student’s home department according to its standard procedures,
which typically involve multi-year packages that require teaching and/or other
responsibilities. Participants in this project will be eligible to compete for
additional funding through research grants and may occasionally be hired to
work on the project for specific tasks. Although we have had, and expect to
continue to have, success in securing supplementary funding for student
participants, there is no separate funding associated with this invitation.

Graduate Program websites for the three departments:
English:
https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/english_language_and_lit
erature/study/graduate/index.php 

Linguistics:
https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/linguistics/study/gradua
te/index.php  

Political Science:
https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/political_science/study/
graduate/index.php

Web Address for Applications: https://sc.edu/study/colleges_schools/artsandsciences/linguistics/study/graduate/index.php 

Contact Information: 
	Professor Stanley Dubinsky
	dubinsky at sc.edu  

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