The chair of Lorenza Mondada, at the Französisches Seminar of the University of Basel opens two positions for PhD candidates to be integrated as scientific assistants (100%) in a research project sponsored by the SNF. The positions start on 1.4.2024 and are for 4 years.

Rooted in multimodal Conversation Analysis, the project Intersensoriality: Achieving the intelligibility of multimodal resources in and for social interaction deals with multisensoriality and multimodality in the organization of social interaction. It is interested in investigating the sequential impact of diverse forms of mutual, (a)symmetric sensorial access between the participants to social interaction, on how actions are formatted, produced, and interpreted in situ. In short, it aims at showing how sensoriality contributes to the shaping of accountability and intersubjectivity of multimodal resources in social interaction.
The project involves the PI, two post-docs and two PhD candidates.

The doctoral research assistants receive a salary conform to the SNF conditions for full PhD positions.

Your position

• Writing a dissertation in multimodal conversation analysis within the project Intersensoriality: Achieving the intelligibility of multimodal resources in and for social interaction.
• Participating to the collective scientific tasks of the project, together with the other members of the team: fieldwork in a diversity of social settings, realization of video data recordings, multimodal transcription, detailed analyses of video data, writing of collective articles.
• Contribution to the organizational and logistic tasks of the project (organization of workshops, internal coordination)

Your profile

• Completion of a MA in the field of linguistics.
• Willingness to register as a PhD candidate in linguistics at the HPSL doctoral school of the University of Basel at the start of the contract.
• Excellent results within the previous BA and MA studies. If possible, already some training in interactional linguistics and multimodal conversation analysis. High motivation to fully engage in research in multimodal conversation analysis.
• Capacity to work and write in English. Linguistic and analytic competences on German and French if possible. Other languages are welcome.
• Capacity and pleasure to work in a team.

We offer you

• Integration in a vibrant research group.
• Excellent training in innovative research in multimodal conversation analysis,
• Active participation to international conference and networks of scholars in conversation analysis, ethnomethodology and interactional linguistics.
• Possibility of research stay abroad during the PhD

The conditions of employment are established by the Personal- und Gehaltsordnung der Universität Basel.

Application / Contact

Deadline: 15.1.2024
Send your application (as pdf) including a letter of motivation, you curriculum vitae, a copy of your diploma (if you have it already), a copy of the MA thesis, and a letter of recommendation to Lorenza Mondada: lorenza.mondada@unibas.ch.
For any information about the position and the expected profile also contact Lorenza
Mondada. See also:
https://franzoesistik.philhist.unibas.ch/fr/persons/lorenza-mondada/
https://www.lorenzamondada.net/