[Corpora-List] Full-time Research Associate position at Lancaster

[Xiao, Richard]

Research Associate: Comparable and Parallel Corpus Approaches to the Third Code: English and Chinese

Please visit http://hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?ref=A762 to get further particulars or apply online.

Linguistics & English Language
Salary:   £25,504 to £29,541
Closing Date:   Friday 02 August 2013
Interview Date:   To be confirmed
Reference:  A762

The Department seeks to appoint a Research Associate to work full time for 14 months on the project “Comparable and Parallel Corpus Approaches to the Third Code: English and Chinese Perspectives”, which is jointly funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (UK) and the Research Grants Council (Hong Kong) and collaboratively undertaken by Lancaster University and the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

You will have a PhD in the field of Corpus Linguistics or Translation Studies, experience of working in both research areas, and a beginning track-record of conference presentations and publications.

You will be part of the Lancaster team of the international collaboration.

You will conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses of corpus data to investigate the linguistic and textual features of translational language on the basis of balanced comparable corpora of native and translated English texts, with a focus on translational English in comparison with translational Chinese.

Informal enquiries may be made to Dr Richard Xiao, Principal Investigator. Email: r.xiao @lancaster.ac.uk.

This is a full time fixed-term post beginning 1 September 2013, or as soon as possible after this date,  for 14 months.



Dr Richard Xiao

Director, Lancaster University Confucius Institute

Lecturer, Department of Linguistics and English Language

Lancaster University

Lancaster, UK

Phone: +44 1524 5 92271

Email: r.xiao at lancaster.ac.uk

Web: http://www.ling.lancs.ac.uk/profiles/richard-xiao
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