34.2960, Support: Cognitive Science, Language Acquisition, Semantics, Typology: PhD, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen

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Subject: 34.2960, Support: Cognitive Science, Language Acquisition, Semantics, Typology: PhD, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen

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Date: 06-Oct-2023
From: Saskia van Putten [saskia.vanputten2 at ru.nl]
Subject: Cognitive Science, Language Acquisition, Semantics, Typology: PhD, Centre for Language Studies, Radboud University Nijmegen


Institution/Organization: Centre for Language Studies, Radboud
University Nijmegen
Web Address: https://www.ru.nl/en/cls

Level: PhD

Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science; Language Acquisition; Semantics;
Typology

Description:

PhD Candidate: The Language of Pain Across and Between Languages

Are you interested in how word meanings differ across languages and
how we acquire and use concepts in a second language? Then start your
academic career within linguistics as a PhD candidate. In this
project, you will investigate how people talk about pain in different
languages.

Cross-linguistic studies into semantic domains such as colour,
perception and emotion have shown that languages differ in the way
experience is mapped to words. One domain that has not received much
attention from a cross-linguistic point of view is that of pain. We
know that languages differ in what kinds of words they have to talk
about pain, but the exact ways in which languages are similar and
different need further study. Pain expression in a second language has
also not been investigated much, even though this line of research may
have important implications for L2 learning and intercultural health
care communication.

In this PhD project, you will first carry out a comparative
investigation of pain expressions across two or more languages. You
will choose which languages to focus on based on your own interest and
expertise. Ideally, one of the languages you include in the
comparative investigation is widely spoken as an L2 by speakers of one
of the other languages. For instance, you could compare a minority
language to a more widely-spoken lingua franca.

In the second part of the project, you will investigate pain
expression in a second language and how this relates to differences
between the languages in pain expression.

Possible methods to be used in this project are a) questionnaires with
imagined situations to elicit expressions of types of pain, b) free
listing of pain vocabulary, c) corpus research on existing or elicited
pain descriptions, d) experimental approaches to investigate
associations and mental imagery evoked by L1/L2 pain language.

You will present the research outcomes at national and international
conferences, and you will write at least three articles for
international high-impact journals, to be included in your doctoral
thesis.

Your research will be embedded in the Centre for Language Studies
(CLS) and you will be part of the Graduate School for the Humanities
(GSH). You will devote 75% of your time to the research for and
writing of your PhD thesis. The remaining 25% will be spent on
training and academic service to the Faculty of Arts, including
teaching.

We offer you the opportunity to develop and carry out your own PhD
project within the areas of expertise of your supervisors, Dr Saskia
van Putten, Dr Ferdy Hubers and Dr Laura Speed. Your promoter will be
Prof. Helen de Hoop. The project will be funded by a Starters grant
from the Faculty of Arts awarded to Dr Saskia van Putten and Dr Ferdy
Hubers.

Application Deadline: 31-Oct-2023

Web Address for Applications: https://www.ru.nl/en/working-at/job-oppo
rtunities/phd-candidate-the-language-of-pain-across-and-between-langua
ges

Contact Information:
For questions about the position, please contact Prof. Helen de Hoop,
professor of Theoretical Linguistics, at helen.dehoop at ru.nl.
Alternatively, you can contact Suzanne van de Liefvoort, coordinator
of the Graduate School for the Humanities (GSH), at
gshcoordinator at let.ru.nl.



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