37.1854, Support: German, Romance, Slavic; English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese; Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Lexicography, Sociolinguistics: 14 PhD Positions, MultiLAwa Doctoral Network
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Subject: 37.1854, Support: German, Romance, Slavic; English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese; Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Lexicography, Sociolinguistics: 14 PhD Positions, MultiLAwa Doctoral Network
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Date: 20-May-2026
From: Hélène Vinckel-Roisin [helene.vinckel-roisin at univ-lorraine.fr]
Subject: German, Romance, Slavic; English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese; Applied Linguistics, Discourse Analysis, Language Acquisition, Lexicography, Sociolinguistics: 14 PhD Positions, MultiLAwa Doctoral Network
Institution/Organization: Université de Lorraine (Nancy, France)
Web Address: https://www.multilawa.eu
Level: PhD
Duties: Research
Specialty Areas: Applied Linguistics; Discourse Analysis; Language
Acquisition; Lexicography; Sociolinguistics
Required Language(s): English (eng)
French (fra)
German (deu)
Italian (ita)
Portuguese (por)
German
Romance
Slavic
Description:
We are pleased to announe that our Doctoral Network Project Joint
Doctorates (2025) « Multilingual Language Awareness in the European
Digital Society » (MultiLAwa) has been selected and will be funded by
the European Union.
Start of the project: September 1st, 2026
Start of the PhD theses: November 1st, 2026
Start of the application campaign: May 20th, 2026
Website : www.multilawa.eu
Online Info-Session for all applicants: Tuesday 16 June 2026, at 2:00
pm (CEST)
MultiLAwa is an international, interdisciplinary and intersectorial
research and training network on plurilingualism and multilingualism
as key drivers of social cohesion and inclusion by promoting Language
Awareness – the explicit and implicit knowledge of language(s) and
language use – across individual, institutional and societal levels.
MultiLAwa’s overarching research goal is for an in-depth analysis to
build upon the interconnections between Language Awareness,
pluri-/multilingualism and digitality, extending previous research in
the field of language learning / teaching, and complementing it with
research on language practices and discourses, language policy, as
well as lexicography and terminology.
List of the 14 open PhD positions:
1: Discourses on Language Awareness & Pluri-/Multilingualism in
Digital Society
2: Language Ideologies in Industry, Science & Politics
3: Multilingual digital practices & digital literacy: Designing &
using digital applications in the workplace and higher education
4: Stereotyped language related to gender, race & ethnicity in digital
dictionaries & thesauri
5: Multilingual gender fairness in AI-generated texts
6: Language policy on the European level: Language Awareness &
digitality from a discourse analytical approach
7: Language policies in France, Germany and Luxembourg: A
Multidimensional Comparative Analysis
8: Promoting culture and identity-building in digital contexts: Focus
on indigenous regional & minority languages
9: Conception of a specialised multilingual multimedia lexicographic
information system for tourism language
10: Dataset & technical design of specialised multilingual
lexicographic information systems for circular economy
11: Enhancing Language Awareness in Fintech: Terminology &
Harmonisation towards Cross-Cultural Communication
12: Students’ language learning motivation from a Critical Language
Awareness perspective
13: Migration languages in foreign language education in the era of
GenAI
14: Language Awareness & communicative ability through exposure:
data-driven approaches with corpora & GenAI
Our Partners :
Partner Universities (Beneficiaries):
Université de Lorraine, ATILF, FR (Coordination) / University of
Innsbruck, AT / University of Vienna, AT / University of Zurich, CH /
Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, DE / University of
Mannheim, DE / University of Copenhagen, DK / University of Milan, IT
/ University of Warsaw, PL, / Nova University Lisbon, PT
Associated Partners:
Swiss National Bank, CH / Univerbal, CH / Charles University, CZ /
Lexical Computing, CZ / Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and
Humanities, DE / Center for Rhetorical Science Communication Research
on Artificial Intelligence, DE / Dudenredaktion Cornelsen Verlag
GmbH, DE / Ernst Klett Verlag GmbH, DE / Leibniz Institute for German
Language, DE / Ordbogen A/S, DK / WeDo – Project Intelligence Made
Easy, ES / Ministère de la Culture, FR / Observatoire européen du
plurilinguisme, FR / United Nations Educational, Scientific and
Cultural Organization, FR / Interhome Group, IT / Zenter fir
d’Lëtzebuerger Sprooch, LU
Application Deadline: 08-Jul-2026
Application Instructions:
To be considered eligible, applicants must meet the following
conditions:
1. Not be in possession of a doctoral degree at the date of
recruitment.
2. Be in possession of a Master of Arts, Master of Translation,
Master of Education, or a Master of Science (MSc) or equivalent degree
in Linguistics or similar disciplines that provides the DC with
appropriate background for the MultiLAwa DN-project - with a high mark
in the Master programme.
3. Meet the Mobility rule of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions –
Doctoral Networks.
4. Language skills: At least B2 level (or equivalent) in German
and English are expected. Knowledge of additional (foreign) languages
is an advantage, as described in the open PhD positions.
All instructions on "Application process":
https://www.multilawa.eu/recruitment-for-applying/application-process/
Mailing Address for Applications:
application at multilawa.eu
France
Web Address for Applications: https://www.multilawa.eu
Email Address for Applications: application at multilawa.eu
Contact Information:
Hélène Vinckel-Roisin
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