34.3167, Support: English based; English; General Linguistics: PhD, The University of Hong Kong

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Subject: 34.3167, Support: English based; English; General Linguistics: PhD, The University of Hong Kong

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Date: 19-Oct-2023
From: Anny Hui [annyhsw at hku.hk]
Subject: English based; English; General Linguistics: PhD, The University of Hong Kong


Institution/Organization: The University of Hong Kong
Department: School of English
Web Address: https://english.hku.hk/

Level: PhD

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: General Linguistics; Sociolinguistics, Discourse
Analysis, Pragmatics, Psycholinguistics, Phonetics
Required Language(s): English (eng)
                      English based

Description:

Level: MPhil and PhD

Duties: Research

Specialities: Sociolinguistics, Discourse Analysis, Pragmatics,
Psycholinguistics, Phonetics

HKU is Hong Kong’s oldest tertiary institution, with a history dating
back over 100 years. It consistently ranks within the top 30
universities in the world, and within the top 5 universities in Asia.
In the latest rankings by QS, and the US News & World Report, the
Faculty of Arts places 1st in Asia, with the School of English being
counted within the top 25 global universities according to subject
ranking (QS).

All successful full-time MPhil and PhD applicants will be fully funded
by the School/HKU. The School of English in the University of Hong
Kong invites applications for MPhil and PhD research scholarships in
the following areas of interest:

English Literary Studies:
 - British and American Literature from Medieval through to
Contemporary periods
 - Writing Hong Kong
 - World Literature
 - Book History
 - Digital Humanities
 - Law and Literature
 - Religion and Literature
 - Adaptation Studies
 - Critical Theory
 - Postcolonial Writing
 - Neo-Victorian Studies
 - Ecocriticism
 - Race Studies

English Linguistics:

 - Discourse analysis – digital/online contexts; food discourse;
family interaction; health communication; narratives
 - Experimental phonetics – second language speech learning; practices
in forensic speech science; evidential strength of speech features
 - Historical sociolinguistics
 - Human-animal communication
 - Interactional sociolinguistics – gatekeeping encounters;
cross-cultural communication; framing; intertextuality
 - Intersex and language – especially corpus-assisted discourse
analysis, including but not limited to the use of the Intersex
Research Corpus (HKU); the study of online circulation of knowledge;
biomedical regulation of bodies
 - Language and disability
 - Language socialization and/or language shift
 - Psycholinguistics – bi/multilingual language processing; implicit,
incidental and explicit learning; use of behavioural and eye-tracking
methods
 - Queer linguistics – critical sociolinguistic approaches to gender
and sexuality
 - World Englishes

For further details of staff interests, please see
https://english.hku.hk/people/Faculty/All. The School of English is
not involved in EFL/ESL research or supervision.

The deadline for the Main Round of applications is 1 December, 2023.

For full details of remuneration, how to apply etc., please see the
link below.

Application Deadline: 31-Aug-2024

Web Address for Applications: https://english.hku.hk/Postgraduate/MPhi
l_and_PhD/Information_for_Applicants

Contact Information:
Ms. Anny Hui
english at hku.hk



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