Date: Wed, 08 Mar 2017 15:17:29

From: Inken
Armbrust [inken.armbrust@uni-tuebingen.de]

Subject: Cognitive Science, PhD,
Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany

Institution/Organization: Eberhard Karls Universität
Tübingen

Department: GRK 1808

Web Address: https://www.uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/core-research/research-training-groups/rtg-1808-ambiguity-production-and-perception/call-for-applications.htm

Level: PhD

Duties: Research

Specialty Areas: Cognitive Science

Description:

The interdisciplinary Research Training
Group (RTG) 1808 “Ambiguity – Production and Perception”

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen
offers 1 PhD Position (TV-L E13, 65%) with a temporary employment first for a
period until March 31, 2018 (a proposal for the extension of the funding is in
preparation, which, if successful, will result in an offer of another two
years, i.e. three years total) to a student with expertise in cognitive science
or a closely related discipline. General programming skills are a mandatory
requirement.

As the University of Tübingen intends to
increase the proportion of female employees in research and teaching, women are
particularly encouraged to apply. The PhD-Student will be employed through the
central administration of the University of Tübingen and will work on modeling
ambiguity and enhancing a database on various disciplinary cases of ambiguity.

Application deadline: Wednesday, March
22, 2017.

The doctoral student will enjoy
excellent conditions in an interdisciplinary environment and will participate
in a systematically structured curriculum, comprising project-oriented guidance
in small teams as well as activities of the entire RTG. The student’s project
will be supervised by the Chair of Cognitive Modeling: http://www.cm.inf.uni-tuebingen.de

Kontakt (Sekretariat):

Inken Armbrust

Keplerstr. 2

Telefon: +49 7071 29-77569

Mail: inken.armbrust@uni-tuebingen.de

http://www.ambiguitaet.uni-tuebingen.de

It is the aim of the proposed Research
Training Group (RTG) to show that by a collaborative approach of
language-oriented disciplines new insights may be gained into the production
and perception of ambiguity, i.e. when it comes into being and when it is
resolved. The pursuit of this aim is based on the conviction that ambiguity is
an excellent paradigm for developing new ways of collaboration between the
various language-oriented disciplines.

The research program links
investigations into the language system as a field of linguistic research with
investigations into the areas of discourse focused upon by the other
disciplines. This will lead to innovative approaches: From a linguistic
perspective, the challenge will be to represent (strategic) ambiguity in a
broad range of texts, and from the perspective of the other disciplines, it
will mean taking into account the role of grammatical structures for the
interpretation of ambiguity. The program rests on the assumption that both the
production and the perception of ambiguity, as well as its strategic and
non-strategic occurrence, can only be understood by exploring how these factors
interact when ambiguity is generated and resolved.

This may concern the
speaker-hearer-interaction as well as long-term developments such as the
strategic reinterpretation of canonical texts.

For additional information see

http://www.ambiguitaet.uni-tuebingen.de

Application details:

Applications (in English) including
informative documents, a cover letter, a brief research proposal (maximum 2
pages), signed CV, copies of earned university degrees and transcripts of
individual grades, the names and email addresses of two potential referees
(university professors) as well as, optionally, a letter of recommendation are
to be sent in digital form (one pdf

document) by March 22, 2017 under the
reference RTG “Ambiguity: Production and Perception” to the speaker of the RTG,
Professor Matthias Bauer:

m.bauer@uni-tuebingen.de.

Application Deadline: 22-Mar-2017

Mailing Address for Applications:

Attn:
Professor Matthias Bauer

Keplerstr.
2

Tübingen
72074

Germany

Web Address for Applications: https://www.uni-tuebingen.de/en/research/core-research/research-training-groups/rtg-1808-ambiguity-production-and-perception/call-for-applications.htm

Contact Information:

Professor
Matthias Bauer

m.bauer@uni-tuebingen.de