33.3095, Support: Gbe; Language Documentation; Linguistic Theories; Sociolinguistics: PhD, University of Amsterdam

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Subject: 33.3095, Support: Gbe; Language Documentation; Linguistic Theories; Sociolinguistics: PhD, University of Amsterdam

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Date: Mon, 10 Oct 2022 19:01:49
From: Enoch Aboh [aclc-fgw at uva.nl]
Subject: Gbe; Language Documentation; Linguistic Theories; Sociolinguistics: PhD, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

 Institution/Organization: University of Amsterdam 
Department: Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication 

Level: PhD 

Specialty Areas: Language Documentation; Linguistic Theories; Sociolinguistics 
Grammatical description; Code-switching/code-mixing 

                      Gbe 

Description:

The Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication (ACLC),
https://aclc.uva.nl/ currently has a vacant PhD position as part of the
NWO-funded research project Crossing language borders: A quest for the human
language capacity in West Africa and Central America, led by principal
investigator Prof. dr. E.O. Aboh (ACLC) in collaboration with dr. María Carmen
Parafita Couto (U. Leiden), prof. F. Ameka (U. Leiden), and dr. Anne L.
Beatty-Martínez (McGill University). The ACLC prioritises diversity (taken in
a holistic sense, e.g., ethnicity, social and/or linguistic background,
gender, sexuality) and is committed to creating an inclusive research
environment. The ACLC is one of the five Research Schools within the Amsterdam
Institute for Humanities Research at the University of Amsterdam (UvA).

We are looking for a talented and creative junior scholar with a Master’s
degree (or equivalent) who is fascinated by language use in a multilingual
community, and is curious about how to describe and analyse
code-switching/code-mixing (CSCM) phenomena from an interdisciplinary
perspective. Our project’s aim is to yield an integrated approach to
multilingual speech that is both descriptively and explanatorily adequate.
Despite extensive research in this area, no clear explanation emerges about
the regularities underlying mixed speech. While most existing studies focus on
Western communities in which CSCM is socially disfavoured, this project
investigates CSCM in multilingual communities, Benin (West Africa) and Belize
(Central America), where multilingual discourse involving CSCM is the norm. We
will use a multimethod, comparative approach, linking linguistic, cognitive
and social factors to help us understand how multilinguals adapt to
communicative demands of contexts where CSCM is the norm.

We expect you to conduct fieldwork in a Gbe speaking multilingual community in
Porto-Novo/Cotonou (Benin). You will collect data on CSCM, transcribe and
annotate them digitally, and analyse the data in scholarly articles or book
chapters as part of your thesis. You will present your results in
(inter)national conferences, and participate in research activities within the
project team and  within the ACLC at UvA as well as with collaborating groups
at the University of Leiden. At the end of the four years of appointment you
will submit and defend your doctoral thesis.

If you feel the profile fits you, and you are interested in the position, we
look forward to receiving your application. You can apply online via the URL
provided. The deadline for applying for this vacancy is 30 October 2022.
 

Application Deadline: 30-Oct-2022 

Web Address for Applications: https://vacatures.uva.nl/UvA/job/PhD-researcher-in-linguistics-language-use-and-code-mixing/755943502/ 

Contact Information: 
	Prof. dr. Enoch Aboh
	Amsterdam Center for Language and Communication
	Email: aclc-fgw at uva.nl  


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