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Tuesday, August 5, 2008

Languages, Linguistics, Translation Studies: PhD Student, Aston University, United Kingdom

Level: PhD
Duties: Research
Specialty Areas: General Linguistics
Languages, Linguistics, Translation Studies

Description:
Three-year Fees-only PhD Bursaries in Languages and Social Sciences The School of Languages and Social Sciences at Aston University is offering four three-year fees-only bursaries to students who already have, or who will have completed at the latest by October 2008, a Masters degree in a relevant subject area. The bursaries will enable students to undertake research in any of the School's areas of academic endeavour: English, French, German, Politics & International Relations, Sociology, Spanish and Translation Studies. The School's vibrant research culture - Grade 5 rating in the last RAE - and the rapidly expanding cohort of full-time research students, provides a stimulating intellectual environment.

Research areas include:
English: corpus linguistics; discourse analysis, including CDA; forensic linguistics; literary linguistics; sociolinguistics and TESOL.

French : French political institutions, political leadership and social movements; writing, politics and gender; French language acquisition and development; linguistic semantics; French media and cultural policy; French literature and philosophy.

German: Modern German and Austrian culture and literature; German film studies;
German history; German-Jewish studies; sociolinguistics (multilingualism, migrant and minority languages, dialect - standard contact in the German speaking countries); Low German and Yiddish.

Spanish: Contemporary Spanish literature and cultural studies; women studies;
translation; sociolinguistics; second language teaching and Latin American political discourse.

Translation Studies: Translation and politics; translation history; translation and ethnography; translation and advertising; corpus analysis for translation; translation didactics and translator training.

The value of the bursary, £3,300, is sufficient to cover Home/EU fees for 2008-9, and will rise annually as the university's fees increase in step with inflation. An overseas student could set the bursary against the normal annual overseas registration fees, which for 2008-9 are £9,500, thereby reducing the fees payable to £6,200.

If you wish to apply, please complete and submit, as soon as possible, an electronic PhD application form, which can be downloaded from the University's website. This will enable us to check that no necessary details are missing. Your application should also include a CV, as well as a 2-3,000 word research proposal and the names of two academic referees. To speed up the process, please ask your referees to send their references immediately by post or by email to Ms Margarita Seresht, (see below for address).

If you are not a native speaker of English, proof of English language competence will be necessary, usually in the form of a TOEFL or IELTS test score. The minimum test scores are as follows:

- TOEFL: 610 (paper-based) or 253 (computer-based) or 101/102 (Internet-based)
- IELTS: 7.0 (minimum 7.0 in writing, and 6.0 in speaking, listening and reading)

Applications for the studentship should be sent to Ms Margarita Seresht. Please mark the envelope with the phrase 'PhD Bursary Application'.

Application Deadline: 31-Jul-2008
Mailing Address for Applications:
Attn: Ms Margarita Seresht
School of Languages and Social Sciences
Aston University, Aston Triangle
Birmingham West Midlands B4 7ET
United Kingdom

Web Address for Applications:
http://www1.aston.ac.uk/lss/research/researchdegrees/pgresapp/

Contact Information:
Ms Margarita Seresht
m.seresht@aston.ac.uk
Phone:+44 (0)121 204 3760
Fax:+44 (0)121 204 3766

The way to AMINEF in Gedung Balai Pustaka

American Indonesian Exchange Foundation
Balai Pustaka Building, 6th. Floor
Jl. Gunung Sahari Raya No. 4
Jakarta 10720, Indonesia

1. The buses which goes to Senen Bus Station all of them pass through Gedung Balai Pustaka. Especially which route is through Pasar Baru .

2. Bus Transjakarta, from Blok M you have to change the bus 2-3 times.
Way 1 : from Blok M change the bus in Dukuh Atas bus stop to the bus towards Pulogadung, then take a bus in Pramuka bus stop towards Ancol, this bus pass through Gedung Balai Pustaka. The closest bus stop (Budi Utomo) is about 800 meters from Gedung Balai .
Way 2 : From Blok M take the bus in the Harmoni Bus Stop, the bus towards Pulogadung, get down in Senen Bus Stop and walk about 800 meters, or from this bus stop take the bus towards Ancol and get down as mentioned in way 1. About the distance, this two bus stops is about the same. (It is better if you take ojek or bajaj from this bus stop to Gedung Balai Pustaka)

3. If you take taxi with old tariff (TL=Tarif Lama) from blok M with no traffic jam is about Rp. 30.000,00.

4. From Blok M use bus Patas AC 76. Gedung Balai Pustaka is in the right side, after you pass through Depag, and say to conductor "Balai Pustaka"

5. Use a busway from Blok M towards Kota, get down in Sawah Besar bus stop. From here take a Mikrolet M12 towards Senen. After cross road Wahidin and before senen get down and cross the street.

Living Cost in Germany

Living Cost in Germany is vary from city to city, but this is th case if you stay in Aachen, Germany
Student accommodation or private sharing : 180 - 230 euros per month
Food : 10 - 12 euros per day (if eating outside)
Transport for students : free within Aachen and until Koln and Dusseldorf in regional trains)

Living Cost In Austria

Living Cost in Austria is depending on the city, for example the Capital of Austria, Vienna:
- Dormitory is about 250-400 euro per month.
- Living Cost 200-400 euro per month.
- Transportation 128 euro per 4 months (student and age < 26), or 49 euro per month (ordinary)

For visa, it has to be a letter from the University/Scholl in Austria. It takes about 2-3 months.

Where to do GMAT Test

GMAT Tests are held in Jakarta, Indonesia :
1. EEC Slipi +62-21 5320044 or +62-215323176
2. Kaplan GMAT Preparation +62-81388908450, +62-21 5211588, +62-215211701 (Information abaout this test can be asked in that number)
3. Or this number +62-213159225

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