15 September: fyi -- text linguistics, UK

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Closing Date : 25 September 2009

Applications are invited for this ESRC funded post. "Health
Communication and the Internet: An Analysis of Adolescent Language Use on
the Teenage Health Freak Website" is a project to explore the integration
of corpus-linguistic and sociolinguistic approaches for the analysis of a
unique, 3-million word longitudinal corpus of messages posted to the
'Teenage Health Freak' web site (http://www.teenagehealthfreak.org/). The
findings of the analysis will be made available to health care providers
and users of health care services in the form of a practical, encyclopaedic
resource.

This full-time post is available from 1 October 2009 or as soon as possible
thereafter and will be offered on a fixed-term contract for a period of one
year

Candidates should have a good research record and hold a PhD in corpus
linguistics or sociolinguistics (or equivalent).

For further information, and to submit an on-line application, see:
http://hr.nottingham.ac.uk/ (Job Opportunities/ Current Opportunities/
Research and Teaching)

Application Deadline: 25-Sep-2009

Web Address for Applications: http://hr.nottingham.ac.uk/
Contact Information:
Svenja Adolphs
Email: Svenja.Adolphs@nottingham.ac.uk

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