PU-African urban sociolinguistics

Teaching

The specialist recruited will be called upon to teach at all three levels of the bachelor's degree, as well as at master's level.

In this context, he/she will teach introductory courses in sociolinguistics for students new to the discipline, as well as more specialized courses, taking into account the extremely numerous - and varied - situations of plurilingualism that exist on the African continent: diglossia, vehicularization/vernacularization of languages, creolization phenomena. The specialist recruited will pay particular attention to urban space as a place of intra- and inter-linguistic mixing and to the practices that result.

He/she will carry out part of his/her service within the department's transversals but may also teach transversal courses at INALCO's bachelor and master levels.

The candidate must master an African language.

The candidate will be expected to invest in the life and functioning of the department, in reflection on the evolution of training courses, as well as in the supervision of students.

Teaching department:

Location: INALCO, 65 rue des Grands Moulins CS21351 75214-PARIS cedex 13
URL of the department: http://www.inalco.fr/department/afrique-ocean-indien

Research

Laboratories attached

Depending on their specialties, the teacher-researcher recruited will be able to join an Inalco team of their choice, including:

CESSMA

The CESSMA will host the university professor in Urban Sociolinguistics of Africa. This colleague will play a key role in the work of Axis 2: "Cities of the South: power, urban practice and metropolitan development" and Axis 4: "Knowledge, Actors, Power, Territories. He/she will also participate in the animation of a l'aire Afrique-Océan Indien.

CESSMA
Lieu d'exercice : Université Paris Diderot, 5 rue Thomas Mann 75013 Paris
URL of laboratory director : http://cessma.univ-paris-diderot.fr

LACITO

The recruited professor will be able to join the UMR LACITO (Langues et civilisations à tradition orale) (CNRS-Sorbonne Nouvelle-Inalco) which comprises three non-exclusive research axes, the same researcher being able to work in one or other axis depending on projects. The three research axes are 1. documentation and corpus, 2. typology and historical linguistics, and 3. Linguistic anthropology. What unites the laboratory is its emphasis on field research, whether in descriptive linguistics or linguistic anthropology/sociolinguistics. The laboratory gives priority to missions devoted to field research, particularly from an ethnographic perspective. The LACITO laboratory pays particular attention to minority/minority language contexts.

A teacher-researcher recruited to the LACITO is expected to participate in the laboratory's activities and to be a driving force behind collective projects.

LACITO : UMR 7107 du CNRS
Location : 7, rue Guy Môquet (bât. D) - 94801 Villejuif

LLACAN

The LLLACAN is a CNRS-INaLCO joint research unit dedicated to the analysis, documentation and comparison of African languages and literatures. LLACAN would be particularly interested in welcoming a teacher-researcher who contributes to our understanding of urban or rural multilingualism in Africa and its impact on language evolution.

LLACAN UMR 8135 du CNRS
"Langage, langues et cultures d'Afrique"
Location: 7, rue Guy Môquet - 94801 Villejuif
Name of laboratory director: Mark VAN DE VELDE
E-mail from laboratory director: llacan.direction@cnrs.fr

SeDyL

The candidate.e, with an excellent command of the "oriental" language, and working as closely as possible with specific data from a variety of corpora, could fit into one of the Sedyl: (1) Reference and predication; (2) Contact linguistics, social issues of plurilingualism (migration, education), heterogeneous language practices (sub-national and migratory context), national and family language policies; (3) From description to typology.

Within the framework of projects carried out within Axis 2, SeDyL relies on its IRD supervisory body to carry out research in countries of the South in partnership with local institutions on themes such as the social stakes of multilingualism and language contacts, the consideration of local languages in education, the study of plurilingual corpora, creole languages, languages in the diaspora. Candidates whose research and publications focus on one or more of these themes will be able to use the results of their work in teaching or training at INALCO (levels L & M).

SeDyL UMR 8202 du CNRS
Structure et dynamique des langues
Location : 7, rue Guy Môquet - 94801 Villejuif

PLIDAM

The recruited teacher-researcher will be able to join the EA 4514 host team PLIDAM currently organized around 6 axes: Axis 1) Language policies, plurilingualism and representations; Axis 2) Language competence: construction and evaluation; Axis 3) Lexics and translation: what didactics?; Axis 4) Literature and culture in language didactics; Axis 5) Designing teaching tools from a plurilingual perspective and Axis 6) SemioMed - Semiotics, multimedia corpora and uses.The PLIDAM laboratory is developing cooperative projects with numerous French and foreign research teams, particularly in the fields of language, literature and foreign culture pedagogy. In this context, research into the urban sociolinguistics of Africa is of great interest to our laboratory. The recruited PU will be invited to get involved in our collective work.

EA4314 PLIDAM
Location: Inalco, 2 rue de Lille, 75007 Paris
Name of laboratory director: Thomas SZENDE
E-mail from laboratory director: thomas.szende@inalco.fr

Hiring procedures

The position for which you are applying is likely to be located in a "restricted area" within the meaning of article R. 413-5-1 of the French penal code. If this is the case, your appointment and/or assignment will be subject to access authorization issued by the head of the establishment, in accordance with the provisions of article 20-4 of decree no. 84-431 of June 6, 1984.

Foreign-language administrative documents in the application file must be translated into French.
Réf : -arrêté du 13 février 2015 relatif aux modalités générales des opérations de mutation, de détachement et de recrutement par concours des maîtres de conférences

-arrêté du 13 février 2015 relatif aux modalités générales des opérations de mutation, de détachement et de recrutement par concours des professeurs des universités.

Applications must be submitted on galaxie.fr (no applications received by email or post will be considered for the campaign).