[Corpora-List] Fully-funded PhD opportunity, University of Glasgow

[Wendy Anderson]

Dear colleagues,

Please see below for information about a fully-funded AHRC PhD studentship in English Language, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow. I’d be grateful if you could bring it to the attention of possible candidates (such as recent graduates and Masters students). Please note the deadline for applications of Fri 2 December 2011.


AHRC Doctoral Studentship in English Language, January 2012-December 2014

This studentship is part of the 3-year AHRC-funded project, Mapping Metaphor with the Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. The project will undertake an empirical investigation of the foundations and nature of metaphor in English using the unique evidence base of the recently completed and published Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary. The project is led by Dr Wendy Anderson (Principal Investigator), Professor Carole Hough and Professor Christian Kay (Co-Investigators), all English Language, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow.

The Doctoral Research
An important aspect of the project is a fully-funded doctoral studentship. The doctoral work will be an in-depth study of an aspect of metaphor in the history of English, and will be carried out under the supervision of Dr Anderson and Professor Hough. There is considerable scope for the PhD student’s project to be shaped by his/her own research interests, in terms of a focus on a particular period of English or a particular semantic category or group of categories. For example, the student may choose to look at metaphor in Old English, or during the scientific revolution, or within the semantic category of colour, or the category of pleasure/enjoyment. If appropriate to the study, the student may choose to draw on corpus evidence alongside evidence from HTOED. Alternatively, the student may wish to consider the relative roles of metaphor and metonymy in a particular period or semantic category.

The successful candidate will have at least the equivalent of an upper second class degree in a relevant subject such as Linguistics or English Language, preferably with some training in semantics.

Please see the School of Critical Studies webpage for further information about this and other current PhD opportunities: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/ahrcstudentships/. Instructions on how to apply can be found at the bottom of the webpage. In the Project Proposal section of their applications, applicants should briefly outline the kind of project that they would wish to undertake, and how it would relate to their previous experience. Interviews are expected to be held between 14-16 December 2011.

Eligibility
For Eligibility criteria, please see Annex A of the AHRC’s Guide to Student Funding: http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/FundingOpportunities/Documents/GuidetoStudentFunding.pdf

Enquiries: wendy.anderson at glasgow.ac.uk


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Dr Wendy Anderson
English Language, School of Critical Studies, University of Glasgow
http://www.gla.ac.uk/departments/englishlanguage
http://www.scottishcorpus.ac.uk
 
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