PhD Researcher in Linguistics (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)

11.07.2025

Application deadline: 04.08.2025

The following position is available in the newly established Collaborative Research Center 1718 “Common Ground: Cognition – Grammar – Communication” (funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG).

PhD Researcher in Linguistics (m/f/d, E13 TV-L, 75%)

The position begins on 01 October 2025 and ends on 30 June 2029. 

The position is associated with project C5 “Multiple Common Grounds - Linguistic Mechanisms for Literary Meaning” of CRC 1718 (principle investigators: Matthias Bauer, Sigrid Beck, Angelika Zirker). The project investigates the pragmatic mechanisms that underly the interpretation of literary texts. For the advertised PhD researcher position, this work involves the semantic and pragmatic analysis of utterances and texts relative to the central pragmatic notion of Common Ground. 

Only applicants that hold a master’s degree (or equivalent) in Linguistics or a similar Language Science area by 01 October 2025 are eligible for the role.

The ideal candidate for this position has:

• a strong familiarity with current theories in compositional semantics and formal pragmatic
• a research interest in the semantics/pragmatics interface (including e.g. the analyses of speech acts, presupposition and implicature
• an interest in considering literary texts as a data source. 

The project offers a cohesive interdisciplinary research environment at the University of Tübingen and a dedicated interdisciplinary project team. We will support the PhD researcher in gaining any skills essential to the successful completion of the project, and we offer her/him/them the opportunity to obtain additional skills related to interdisciplinary language science research more generally.

Equally qualified applicants with disabilities will be given preference in the hiring process. The University of Tübingen is committed to equal opportunities and diversity. It therefore takes individual situations into account and asks for relevant information. 

The University of Tübingen seeks to raise the number of women in research and teaching and therefore urges suitable qualified women academics to apply for this position.

Your application, which must be written in English, should consist of a motivation letter summarizing your suitability for the role, an extensive CV that includes a list of publications (if any), a work sample (for instance the MA thesis) and the contact details of two potential referees. The deadline for submitting applications is 4 August 2025 at 9:00 (Berlin time). Applications should be addressed to the project’s principal investigator Sigrid Beck, but should sent electronically to sekretariat-beckspam prevention@nphil.uni-tuebingen.de  Enquiries may also be sent to this email address.

Candidates shortlisted for an interview will be contacted in mid-August. Interviews will be conducted by the principle investigator Sigrid Beck. 

The employment will be handled by the central administration of the University of Tübingen.