Postdoctoral fellowship in the sociolinguistics of online communication

我的ESRC博士后奖学金将有六个目标。第一个目标是在我博士工作的基础上进行更多的研究。具体地说，我的博士研究发现，包含表情符号的句子比只使用单词的句子可以传达更多的意义。然而，这个主题与我的博士研究没有直接关系，因此我当时不能进一步探讨它。在我的研究期间，我将重新讨论这个话题，因为我有数据来发现关于表情符号在人类交流中的作用的新的、有价值的发现。此外，随着表情符号在社交媒体和其他网站上变得越来越突出，我关于表情符号含义的工作可能会引起技术用户和技术专家的兴趣。具体地说，我的研究可能会改变人们理解表情符号的方式，也会影响设计表情符号的技术专家的工作。因此，我的奖学金的主要目的之一将是寻找机会将我的研究成果传达给公众和科技行业的工作人员。第三，我希望在领先的学术期刊上发表三篇文章，与其他可以从我的工作中受益并在此基础上发展的学者分享我的创新成果。基于我在攻读博士期间完成的研究，我对期刊论文有了两个明确的想法，我可以现实地写下并提交给我的研究员期间考虑。第一份我将在2021年11月提交给《社会语言学杂志》，它将向我的语言学家同行介绍一种方法，用于识别在线创造单词的人，以及向更广泛的在线社区传播这些术语的人。第二篇文章，我将在2022年1月提交给《社会中的语言》，它将介绍和模拟新的指标，这些指标可以用来识别引入和传播新术语的在线社区成员的社会特征。在我的奖学金即将结束时，我还将根据我对表情符号在上述在线交流中的作用的额外研究，撰写并提交第三篇文章。第四，在我的研究金期间，我将申请研究补助金，如果成功，将使我能够开始一个雄心勃勃的新研究项目，在我结束12个月的研究金后，将对社会产生明显的影响。具体地说，在我的奖学金期间，我将花时间为ESRC新研究员补助金和Leverhulme Trust早期职业奖学金补助金撰写建议书。此外，如果我对自然语言处理(NLP)有更深入的了解，我未来的研究将会受益匪浅。自然语言处理是语言学的一个子领域，主要研究使用计算机分析大量的语言数据。我有许多理解这个主题所需的基本技能，但我奖学金的第五个目标将是进行在线培训，将我的知识扩展到更高的水平。我的最终目标是开发一个针对GCSE和A-Level学生的教育计划。该项目将围绕我博士研究的主要成果展开，将让年轻人有机会开展自己的以在线语言创造力为中心的微型研究项目。该计划将专门针对罗素集团大学目前代表性不足的学生，如工薪阶层男性和少数族裔学生，还将鼓励年轻人考虑在中学/大学毕业后进入大学，并突出在大学学习语言学的优势。

My ESRC postdoctoral fellowship will have six aims.The first aim is to undertake additional research based on my PhD work. Specifically, my doctoral research led to the finding that sentences that contain emojis can convey more meaning than sentences that just use words. However, this topic was not directly relevant to my PhD research, and thus I could not explore it further at that point in time. During my fellowship, I will revisit the topic as I have the data to discover new and valuable findings about the role of emojis in human communication.Moreover, as emojis are becoming more and more prominent on social media and other websites, my work on the meaning of emojis could potentially be interesting to technology users and technology experts. Specifically, my research could change the way people understand emojis and also influence the work of technology experts who design emojis. Therefore, one of the primary aims of my fellowship will be to seek opportunities to communicate my research findings to members of the public and those working in the technology industry.Thirdly, I wish to publish three articles in leading academic journals in order to share my innovative findings with other academics who can benefit from and build on my work. Based on the research I completed during my PhD studies, I have two clear ideas for journal articles that I can realistically write and submit for consideration during my fellowship. The first, which I will submit to 'Journal of Sociolinguistics' by November 2021, will introduce to my fellow linguists a method for identifying the people who invent words online and also the people who circulate those terms to the wider online community. The second article, which I will submit to 'Language in Society' by January 2022, will introduce and model novel indicators that can be used to identify the social characteristics of online community members who introduce and circulate new terms. Towards the end of my fellowship, I will also write and submit a third article based on my additional research into the role of emojis in online communication described above. Fourthly, during my fellowship, I will apply for research grants which, if successful, will allow me to embark on an ambitious new research project that will have a demonstrable effect on society following the conclusion of my twelve-month fellowship. Specifically, I will spend time during my fellowship writing proposals for an ESRC New Investigator Grant and a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellowship grant. Moreover, my future research would benefit greatly if I had a more thorough understanding of Natural Language Processing (NLP). NLP is a subfield of linguistics that is concerned with using computers to analyse large amounts of language data. I have many of the fundamental skills required to understand this topic, but the fifth aim of my fellowship will be to undertake online training to expand my knowledge to a more advanced level. My final aim is to develop an educational programme aimed at GCSE and A-Level students. This programme, which will be structured around key findings from my doctoral research, will allow young people the opportunity to undertake their own mini-research project centred on online language creativity. The programme, which will be specifically targeted at students from demographics currently underrepresented at Russell Group universities such as working class-males and students from minority ethnic groups, would also encourage young people to consider attending university after finishing school/college and highlight the advantages of studying linguistics at university level.