22.4717, Support: English & General Ling: PhD Student, U. of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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Date: 19-Nov-2011
From: Wendy Anderson [Wendy.Anderson at glasgow.ac.uk]
Subject: English & General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Lexicography, Semantics, Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK


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Date: Sun, 27 Nov 2011 22:57:26
From: Wendy Anderson [Wendy.Anderson at glasgow.ac.uk]
Subject: English & General Linguistics, Historical Linguistics, Lexicography, Semantics, Text/Corpus Linguistics: PhD Student, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

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 Institution/Organization: University of Glasgow 
Department: English Language 
Web Address: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/ahrcstudentships/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research,Project Work
 
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics; Historical Linguistics; Lexicography; Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics 
 
Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

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.p
df

Enquiries: wendy.anderson at glasgow.ac.uk 

Application Deadline: 02-Dec-2011 

Web Address for Applications: http://www.gla.ac.uk/schools/critical/ahrcstudentships/ 

Contact Information: 
	Dr Wendy Anderson 
	Wendy.Anderson at glasgow.ac.uk


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