34.1988, Support: Semantics, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Translation, Typology: PhD, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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Subject: 34.1988, Support: Semantics, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Translation, Typology: PhD, Friedrich Schiller University Jena

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Date: 20-Jun-2023
From: Volker Gast [volker.gast at uni-jena.de]
Subject: Semantics, Text/Corpus Linguistics, Translation, Typology: PhD, Friedrich Schiller University Jena


Institution/Organization: Friedrich Schiller University Jena
Department: English and American Studies
Web Address: https://www.iaa.uni-jena.de/

Level: PhD

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: Semantics; Text/Corpus Linguistics; Translation;
Typology

Description:

The Department of English and American Studies at the Friedrich
Schiller University Jena invites applications for a PhD position in
the area of comparative corpus linguistics. The position will be
situated in the project 'Bimodal corpus-based language comparison. A
study of connectives of contingency in European languages', funded by
the German Science Foundation. The successful candidate is expected to
hold a degree in General or English linguistics or a related field
(e.g. Romance or Slavic Studies, Computational linguistics). They
should ideally have experience working with (multilingual) corpora and
at least basic programming skills (R, Python). For more information,
please see the project description below and do not hesitate to
contact the professor below for further information.

Salary: according to the TV-L salary scale (65%), see for instance
https://linktype.iaa.uni-jena.de/VG/GEW-Entgelttabelle-TVL.pdf
Time of employment: 36 months

Reference number: 173/2023 (must be mentioned for administrative
purposes)

Please send your application to the email below with an attached CV
and statement of research interests (letters of reference are
optional).


Project description:

The project deals with connectives expressing a conditional, causal or
concessive relation, such as English `if, `because' and `although'. We
use a bimodal translation corpus (EPTIC-J) to study the use and
distribution of relevant connectives in twenty European national
languages. The EPTIC-J corpus contains transcripts of speeches
delivered in the European Parliament as well as their simultaneous
interpretations and written translations into the other languages of
the European Union. This corpus design allows us to examine
connectives in terms of their distribution in the original language as
well as cross-linguistic correspondences reflected in the
(offline/written as well as simultaneous/spoken) translations.
Contingency connectives are interpretatively complex, insofar as they
have a truth-functional interpretation and at the same time trigger
communicative effects at the level of discourse and argumentation. The
main questions of the project are (i) how aspects of meaning at
different levels of interpretation map onto aspects of linguistic form
(distribution of subordinators and linear arrangement of sentences),
and (ii) what degrees of cognitive load are associated with particular
connectives and the relations they express. To answer question (i), we
use only the written part of the corpus. For question (ii), we rely on
the interpretation data, using the choice of a translation option and
the `ear-voice-span' (EVS/décalage) as indicators of cognitive load.
By applying a new methodology (bimodal comparative corpus analysis) to
the study of a topic that has been studied from different perspectives
(typology, sentence semantics, discourse/conversation and
argumentation), in particular by integrating spoken data, we will
reconsider generalizations made in previous work from a new
perspective.

Application Deadline: 10-Jul-2023

Email Address for Applications: volker.gast at uni-jena.de

Contact Information:
Prof. Volker Gast
volker.gast at uni-jena.de



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