30.194, Support: Discourse Analysis; English: PhD, Ghent University

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Subject: 30.194, Support: Discourse Analysis; English: PhD, Ghent University

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Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2019 14:15:22
From: Catherine Bouko [catherine.bouko at ugent.be]
Subject: Discourse Analysis; English: PhD, Ghent University, Belgium

 Institution/Organization: Ghent University 
Department: Translation, Interpreting and Communication 
Web Address: http://www.vtc.ugent.be/ 

Level: PhD 

Duties: Research
 
Specialty Areas: Discourse Analysis 
Computational linguistics 
Required Language(s): English (eng)

Description:

The Research Centre for Multilingual Practices and Language Learning in
Society (MULTIPLES) at Ghent University, invites applications for a full-time
position as doctoral researcher. The PhD student will be working on the
project “ Representations of intra-EU mobility and extra-EU migration in new
media and in their readers' comments, in the context of Brexit”.

Project description:

The research is situated in the domain of media communication, discourse
analysis and corpus linguistics.
The media are considered partly to blame for the Brexit vote, not least
because of their biased coverage of migration during the campaign. The project
addresses this issue from two angles. Firstly, while most analyses of media
coverage still focus on broadsheets vs. tabloids, increasingly popular
Internet-only media fall within any of these two categories and remain
particularly understudied. Therefore, the project seeks to identify
digital-only practices in news-making, particularly regarding mobility in the
Brexit context. Secondly, the ‘refugee crisis’ has resulted in fears of the
extra-European ‘other’ but intra-European mobility is also instilling fears
that undermine one of the very pillars of the EU, namely freedom of movement.
Contrary to research to date which focuses on extra-EU migration, this project
will analyze the media discourses regarding intra- and extra-EU mobilities, as
well as the reactions these discourses trigger in readers’ comments.
The news articles published by Buzzfeed UK, The Huffington Post UK and The
Guardian are the subjects of the study, together with the comments posted by
their readers.
By combining the two angles, the project will have scientific impact both
regarding new media and migration discourses.

Your profile:

- Master’s degree in linguistics, communication, or a related discipline,
obtained with excellent grades before the start of the project
- C2 or native-speaker level in English. The applicants’ skills in English
will be tested; applicants below level C2 will not be considered for this
research.
- Excellent academic skills in English
- Good social and communicative skills
- Capacity for autonomous research

Your tasks:

- Analyzing news articles and comments through quantitative and qualitative
methods (the data is already collected).
- Preparing a PhD on the basis of the project
- Preparing individual and joint publications for national and international
scientific journals
- Presenting research at national and international conferences

We offer: a 48-month PhD position at Ghent University (Research Centre
MULTIPLES &
Department of Translation, Interpreting and Communication).
The position is available from 1 May 2019, but the starting date is negotiable
up to 1 October 2019.

How to apply?

Candidates are invited to apply by submitting two types of documents by e-mail
to Prof. Catherine Bouko (catherine.bouko at ugent.be) by 15 March 2019, 23:59
(CET):
1) A single pdf-document with :
- a letter of application
- a CV (including an overview of the applicant’s study results and the contact
details of one person we may contact for a reference)
- a copy of the required Master’s degree
2) a personal piece of (scientific) writing in the form of a student paper or
publication (e.g. Master thesis or article) in English, demonstrating your
academic skills.

On the basis of these documents, candidates will be selected for an interview
(if necessary, interviews can be held via Skype if the applicants live
abroad).
 

Application Deadline: 15-Mar-2019 

Contact Information: 
	Catherine Bouko
	catherine.bouko at ugent.be  


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