<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">Dear All,<div><br></div><div>Pia Lane is looking for applicants to two 3-year PhD positions in her research project at the University of Oslo (deadline 15 October!):</div><div><blockquote type="cite"><p><a href="http://www.hf.uio.no/iln/english/about/"></a></p><p>The
positions will be part of a new research project “Standardising Minority
Languages”, funded by the Research Council of Norway and the University
of Oslo. The aim of the project is to carry out in-depth analyses of
the standardisation of European Regional or Minority Languages,
expanding the focus from macro-level processes and linguistic aspects of
standardisation to include investigations of how users relate to
standardisation processes. Developing a standard for a minority language
is not a neutral process; this has consequences for the status of the
language and how the language users position themselves in relation to
the new standard. Language standardisation can be seen as a form of
technology, and the project will use Nexus Analysis and theories from
the tradition of science and technology studies (STS) to analyse the
role of social actors and users in the standardisation of historical
minority languages in Europe. STS has dealt with different aspects of
the standardisation of technologies. These insights will be applied to
the case of language standardisation, and the project will explore
issues such as: how the users of the standard are configured, the
exclusionary effects of standards, the positions of non-users, and the
political role of standards.</p></blockquote></div><div>For the complete announcement text and contact information, visit <a href="http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/706851/62043?iso=no">http://uio.easycruit.com/vacancy/706851/62043?iso=no</a> .</div><div><br></div><div>Best</div><div>JL</div><div><br><div apple-content-edited="true">
<div style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div>--</div><div>Univ.Prof. Dr. Johanna Laakso</div><div>Universität Wien, Institut für Europäische und Vergleichende Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (EVSL)</div><div>Abteilung Finno-Ugristik</div><div>Campus AAKH Spitalgasse 2-4 Hof 7</div><div>A-1090 Wien</div><div><a href="mailto:johanna.laakso@univie.ac.at">johanna.laakso@univie.ac.at</a> • <a href="http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Johanna.Laakso/">http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Johanna.Laakso/</a></div><div>Project ELDIA: <a href="http://www.eldia-project.org/">http://www.eldia-project.org/</a> </div><div><br></div></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><br class="Apple-interchange-newline">
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