32.3089, Jobs: Cognitive Science; Philosophy of Language: PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Language and Experimental Linguistics, Radboud Universiteit

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Subject: 32.3089, Jobs: Cognitive Science; Philosophy of Language: PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Language and Experimental Linguistics, Radboud Universiteit

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Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 14:12:30
From:  CM [cm.radbouduniversiteit at brockmeyer.nl]
Subject: Cognitive Science; Philosophy of Language: PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Language and Experimental Linguistics, Radboud Universiteit, Nijmegen, Netherlands

 
University or Organization: Radboud Universiteit 
Job Location: Nijmegen, Netherlands 
Web Address: https://ltpx.nl/j4XABrb
Job Title: PhD Candidate in Philosophy of Language and Experimental Linguistics
Job Rank: Other; PhD Candidate

Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science; Philosophy of Language 


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.

Profile: 
 - You have an MA or MSc in philosophy, linguistics, cognitive neuroscience,
psychology or a related field.
 - You have proven affinity with philosophy of language and/or linguistics.
 - You are proficient in English.
 - You are highly motivated to conduct interdisciplinary research and to
present your work to different kinds of audiences.
 - You have good collaborative and communication skills.
 - You are committed to open science and scientific integrity.
 - Proven affinity with experimental research with human participants and
experience with quantitative data analysis techniques would be a plus.
 - Given that the experiments will probably be run in Dutch, proficiency in
Dutch would be a plus.
For more information about your working environment see
https://www.ru.nl/ptrs/ccl/ and https://www.ru.nl/ptrs/.

We offer: 
 - Employment for 0.8 (5 year contract) - 1.0 FTE (4 year contract).
 - The gross starting salary amounts to €2,434 per month based on a 38-hour
working week, and will increase to €3,111 from the fourth year onwards (salary
scale P)
 - You will receive 8% holiday allowance and 8.3% end-of-year bonus.
 - You will be employed for an initial period of 18 months, after which your
performance will be evaluated. If the evaluation is positive, the contract
will be extended by 2.5 years (4 year contract) or 3.5 years (5 year
contract).

For questions about the position and project, please contact Corien Bary,
Professor Logical Semantics at the email address below.

Practical information and applications: 
You can apply until 16 November 2021, exclusively using the application button
via the URL below. Kindly address your application to Corien Bary. Please fill
in the application button and attach the following documents:
 - Letter of motivation.
 - CV including contact details of two references.
 - An academic transcript with courses taken and grades obtained.
 - A sample of your written work (or a link to it).



Application Deadline: 16-Nov-2021 
	  
Web Address for Applications: https://ltpx.nl/HzT7WaN 
Contact Information:
	Corien Bary 
	Email: corien.bary at ru.nl 


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