32.3199, Support: Dutch; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics: PhD, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

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Subject: 32.3199, Support: Dutch; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics: PhD, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen

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Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2021 16:13:39
From: Corien Bary [corien.bary at ru.nl]
Subject: Dutch; Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics: PhD, Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen, Netherlands

 Institution/Organization: Radboud Universiteit Nijmegen 
Department:  

Level: PhD 

Specialty Areas: Pragmatics; Psycholinguistics; Semantics 
 
Required Language(s): Dutch (nld)

Description:

Are you fascinated by how we use language? Then join this new research project
as a PhD Candidate. You will aim to understand commitments in communication,
combining linguistic experiments with theoretical discourse analysis.

By speaking we undertake commitments, obligations to others to act in certain
ways. We do this both by performing speech acts and by choosing certain
vocabulary. Within linguistics the notion of commitments has popped up in
accounts of a wide range of phenomena (ranging from promises to rising
declaratives, and from evidentiality markers to transparent free relatives).
In our society, issues about commitment come up in the media and even in court
rooms.

Despite the central place of commitment in both our language make-up and our
society, a true understanding of how we undertake, attribute and avoid
commitments through language use is lacking. This understanding is what this
project aims to contribute to.

You will perform a series of experiments in which we measure the commitments
that discourse participants undertake, as interpreted by the participants of
the experiment. We measure this through both explicit and implicit judgments.
For the latter, we use inter alia physiological measures such as fEMG.
Combined with theoretical discourse analysis (as done in the fields of
semantics, pragmatics, philosophy of language, conversational analysis and
dialogue modelling), the series of experiments will result in four journal
papers, to be integrated into a dissertation.

Teaching related tasks may be part of your responsibilities, constituting up
to 10% of your appointment.

For more information, including information about how to apply, see the
application link below. 
 

Application Deadline: 16-Nov-2021 

Web Address for Applications: https://www.ru.nl/werken-bij/vacature/details-vacature/?recid=1169884&doel=embed&taal=nl 

Contact Information: 
	Prof. Dr.  Corien Bary
	corien.bary at ru.nl  


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