博士招生｜英国德比大学奖学金博士生招生（语言学）

英国德比大学奖学金博士生招生

  德比大学（University of Derby）始创于1851年，坐落于英格兰中心的德比市，是英国著名的公立综合性大学，首批中英两国政府学位互认大学。有德比、切斯特菲尔德、巴克斯顿3个校区，颁授100多个学士、硕士、博士学位。有在校学生19000名，包括来自40多个国家的留学生。根据The Guardian《卫报》“2020英国大学综合排名”，德比大学排名第26位；在Times《泰晤士报》发布的“2018英国大学教育质量排名”中，德比大学跻身前10位；在2017全英国高等教育质量卓越评级“Teaching Excellence Framework”中获得金牌。德比大学拥有全面的学科体系，商科全英排名前十，优势专业有旅游管理、酒店管理、法律、教育、机械工程、时装设计、艺术设计等。

 Investing in excellence: studentship opportunities

The University of Derby has an opportunity for a full-time postgraduate research studentship in the Creative and Cultural Industries area of research in the College of Arts, Humanities and Education (AHE).

The successful applicant will receive a maintenance stipend (based on the minimum stipend defined by UKRI, currently £17,668 for the academic year 2022/23) and home MPhil/PhD tuition fees (£4,596 - subject to amendment) only up to the target submission date. Please note, if your application is successful and you are assessed as Overseas for fees purposes, you will need to pay the difference between the Home fees and the EU/Overseas fees.

The intended intake period is September 2023, or the next available intake. 

The successful applicant will be expected to complete their MPhil/PhD within 3 years on the MPhil/PhD route, contribute to the College REF submission and get involved in the wider research activities of the College. 

Applicants will become part of a friendly and welcoming team and will be supported and managed by their supervisors. 

The vacancy details are as follows: 

Purpose/objectives 

The studentship supports the University's academic theme Creative and Cultural Industries. We are looking for applicants with a strong background in linguistics.

Working project title: Social meanings of language variation: Culture and creativity in everyday and high performances.

Applicants will choose focus identities, variety of English, social media and creative works, see further information below. Title could become, for example, Social meanings of language variation in performances of Singapore English: Culture and creativity in TikTok and popular music.

Objectives

Objective 1

To explore the associations with and evaluations of a particular way of speaking English through everyday performances of it on social media by people without trained language expertise (folklinguists). For example, this could be YouTube videos in which Scottish English speakers perform ways different Scottish people speak, revealing ideas about stigmatised language features and salient social/regional Scottish identities.

Objective 2

To compare, via a micro discourse analysis of features and content, the social media performances to comparable ones found within productions from creative and cultural industries (eg plays, song and/or film), with a certain level of language expertise assumed of authors within these more staged and planned (ie ‘high’) performances

Objective 3

To uncover and describe similarities and differences in objectives 1 and 2 with reference to ideological processes and the role of lay vs more expert understandings of language, and their interrelationships. Analysis will also highlight links between cultural products produced in industry and those from outside of this

Project description 

The project will extend contemporary sociolinguistic theorising to understand the associations appealed to in utilising the focus variety in (momentary) performances comparing, for example, videos shared on YouTube and TikTok, produced outside of the creative industries, to representations in industry-produced plays, song and/or film.

It will uncover the identities appealed to in the use of specific features of language to understand social meanings. It will also explore the relationships between language and the artefacts that (re)produce the variety as something that is culturally recognised (enregisterment [Agha, 2007]). The study will contribute theoretically and descriptively to understanding the chosen English variety alongside its everyday evaluations and its representation in art and media: their shared and differing views.

Applicants can tailor the project in terms of the variety of English (can be larger or more local/specific), features of language (across linguistic systems), type of identity (again, can be broader or more specific) and which social media (eg YouTube, TikTok) and creative work types (eg film, song and/or plays) she/he/they examine.

The research will have a qualitative focus but quantitative analyses can be included. These ideas will need to be outlined in your proposal (part of application). A priority will be given to those projects that would work well with comparison to supervisors’ focus areas of research, if submissions are of equal quality on other criteria (to support future joint publications).

This project will engage closely with frameworks and theoretical perspectives the director of studies has been developing (eg Mulder & Penry Williams, 2018; Penry Williams, 2019a, 2019b, 2021). The second supervisor adds to this and strengthens the connection to cultural productions with his research particularly linked to music but also performances beyond this via popular culture(s) (eg Philo, 2004, 2014, 2018).

Potential project impact 

The studentship will result in papers co-authored with supervisors, combining elements of the successful candidate’s work and their own (mentoring the student’s first publishing experiences).

The student will produce publications highlighting different and shared views of language in creative works and in public everyday discussion. Language-based negative evaluations are still socially acceptable when comments on the speakers directly would be seen as prejudiced. Findings in these two areas could find interested practitioner/public audiences but what is appropriate would be dependent on the topic details.

References

Agha A. (2007). Language and Social Relations. Cambridge University Press

Mulder, J., & Penry Williams, C. (2018). Understanding the place of Australian English: Exploring folk linguistic accounts through contemporary Australian authors. Asian Englishes, 20(1), 54–64

Penry Williams, C. (2019a). Appeals to semiotic registers in ethno-metapragmatic accounts of variation. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology, 29(3), 294–313

Penry Williams, C. (2019b). Folklinguistics and social meaning in Australian English. Routledge

Penry Williams, C. (2021, August 15–20). The ‘how’ of talking about talk: A framework detailing the mechanisms of metapragmatic evaluation. Paper presented at Talking about talk: Examining social life through metalanguage, AILA, Groningen

Philo, S. (2004). 'Be childish, be Irresponsible, be disrespectful, be everything this society hates': Punk, youth and protest. In N. Campbell (Ed.), American youth cultures (pp. 209-236). Edinburgh University Press

Philo, S (2014). "They got to go": SKA versus America. In R. Browne, & B. Urish (Eds.). The dynamics of interconnections in popular culture(s) (pp. 76-94). Cambridge Scholars Publishing

Philo, S. (2018). Glam rock: Music in sound and vision. Rowman & Littlefield

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