25.3494, Jobs: Pragmatics; Semantics: Asst/Assoc Professor, University of California, Berkeley

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Subject: 25.3494, Jobs: Pragmatics; Semantics: Asst/Assoc Professor, University of California, Berkeley

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Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2014 14:15:00
From: Paula Floro [floro at berkeley.edu]
Subject: Pragmatics; Semantics: Asst/Assoc Professor, University of California, Berkeley, California, USA

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University or Organization: University of California, Berkeley 
Department: Linguistics
Job Location: California, USA 
Web Address: http://www.linguistics.berkeley.edu/
Job Title: Semantics and Pragmatics
Job Rank: Asst/Assoc Professor

Specialty Areas: Pragmatics; Semantics 

Description:

Assistant or Associate Professor - Semantics and Pragmatics
University of California, Berkeley

Expected start date: July 1, 2015

The Department of Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley, has
been authorized to 
make an appointment in semantics and pragmatics. This position will be at the
rank of 
assistant professor (tenure-track) or associate professor (tenured). Salary
will be 
commensurate with experience. Duties will include undergraduate and graduate
advising and 
teaching (up to four courses per year, in semantics and other areas of
linguistics), supervision 
of student research, and development of a successful and original research
program. The PhD 
(or equivalent) is required by the start date of the appointment; all degree
requirements other 
than the dissertation must be complete at the time of application.

Applicants must have a broad intellectual engagement in linguistics and a
theoretically 
informed research specialization in semantics and pragmatics. Applicants must
be able to 
teach formal model-theoretic semantics at all levels, including seminars and
research 
mentoring, and should have research interests or skills that intersect with an
allied field such 
as cognitive science, corpus or experimental linguistics, historical
linguistics, language 
documentation, morphology, syntax, or typology.

Applications must include a cover letter, curriculum vitae, research and
teaching statements, 
and copies of representative written work (up to 5 items may be submitted).
Applications must 
contain evidence of teaching excellence or potential (either through separate
documentation 
or through information in the cover letter, C.V., or recommendation letters).
Applicants must 
arrange for 2-5 (preferably at least 3) letters of recommendation to be
submitted through the 
online application system. All recommendation letters will be treated as
confidential according 
to University of California policy and California state law. Please refer
potential referees, 
including those who provide letters via a third party, to the UC Berkeley
Confidentiality Policy 
(http://apo.berkeley.edu/evalltr.html). 

Please submit all materials electronically at the application website below.
We encourage 
applicants to submit materials by November 14, 2014, when review of
applications will begin; 
no application materials will be accepted after December 1, 2014. Select
candidates will be 
interviewed at the LSA Annual Meeting in Portland, January 8-11, 2015;
thereafter a few 
candidates will be invited for campus visits. Questions can be sent to Paula
Floro (email 
below).

We are interested in candidates whose research, teaching, or service prepares
them to 
contribute to UC Berkeley’s commitment to diversity and inclusion in higher
education. We 
welcome applications from those who have had non-traditional career paths,
have achieved 
excellence in careers outside academia, or have taken time off for family
reasons. For 
information about relocation to Berkeley or the career needs of partners,
please visit 
calcierge.berkeley.edu (or e-mail calcierge at berkeley.edu).

The University of California is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Employer. All qualified 
applicants will receive consideration without regard to age, citizenship,
color, disability, 
gender expression or identity, military service, national origin, race,
religion, sex, or sexual 
orientation. For the complete UC nondiscrimination and affirmative action
policy see 
http://policy.ucop.edu/doc/4000376/ NondiscrimAffirmAct.

Application Deadline: 01-Dec-2014 

Web Address for Applications: https://aprecruit.berkeley.edu/apply/JPF00505 
Contact Information:
	Manager Paula Floro 
	Email: floro at berkeley.edu 
	Phone: 510-643-7623 
	Fax: 510-643-5688 

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