10 December: fyi -- multilingual lexicon of emotion, Osnabrueck
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Graduate or Postdoctoral Research Assistant (65 per cent)
University of Osnabr�ck / Institute of English and American Studies
The Lexis of Emotion in Five European Languages (DFG-ANR, 2010-2013)
The aim of the project is threefold:
* The first aim is to deepen and conjoin the �representationist� and �contextualist� approaches to meaning (i.e. �meaning≈concept� versus �meaning≈usage�).
* The second aim is to harness the relevant theories to practical implementation. In order to achieve this it will be necessary to carry out a contrastive analysis of the semantic values, combinatory (lexematic and syntactic) behaviour and discourse roles of lexemes relating to emotions. It will also be necessary to examine synonymic relationships between the words that are studied, and special attention will have to be given to syntagmata which can be substituted for terms that designate emotions with direct precision. The languages dealt with will be German, French, English, Russian and Spanish. The research findings will provide a better overview of the lexical field of emotions, thereby making it possible to move beyond existing lexicological and lexicographical studies.
* Finally, the new facts brought to light during the project will be exploited with a view to improving foreign language teaching and the training of professional translators.
This post is funded by the DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) and tenable for 36 months, starting 1 February 2010. The successful candidate should have extensive experience in corpus linguistics, be a native speaker of either English or German, and have at least a working knowledge of French.
Salary: 32500 � per annum
Please send applications (preferably by e-mail) to:
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Univ.-Prof. Dr. Dirk Siepmann
Institut f�r Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Fachbereich 7 - Universit�t Osnabr�ck
Neuer Graben 40
D-49069 Osnabr�ck
Germany
DSiepmann@t-online.de
Tel. +49(0)541 9694160
www.dirk-siepmann.de
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