Stefan Dollinger
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Stefan Dollinger is an Austrian-Canadian linguist, Associate Professor in English Linguistics at the University of British Columbia, Department of English Language and Literatures, with a secondary affiliation at the Department of Linguistics. He focuses on language change and language & identity from historical, sociolinguistic and dialectological perspectives.[citation needed] Dollinger is best known for his work on Canadian English.[1]
Academic history[edit]
Raised in Upper Austria, he attended a high school for IT Engineering, followed by a year each in sociology, before matriculating in English and German languages (teacher's degree) at University of Vienna[citation needed]. Dollinger received an M.A. after one year at the University of Toronto,[2][3] He was then appointed director of the University of Vienna's newly founded Language Center.[citation needed]
In 2002, Dollinger became a research assistant under the historical code-switching researcher Herbert Schendl at the University of Vienna's Department of English.[4] After receiving a Ph.D. in English Linguistics, he worked for three years at UBC with grants from the Austrian Academy of Sciences[5] and from the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada.[6] Dollinger became an Assistant Professor of English at UBC in 2009, and an Associate Professor in 2014. In 2015, Dollinger accepted a Chair and Full Professorship in English Linguistics at the University of Gothenburg Sweden,[7] but returned in 2017 full time to UBC. Dollinger is Director of the Canadian English Lab at UBC's Department of English, the unit producing the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles.[8]
Awards[edit]
Recipient of the 2008 ASCINA Young Researchers' Award, a prize bestowed by the Austrian Ministry of Education and Science for his 2008 monograph.[9]
Projects[edit]
In 2006, Dollinger was appointed chief editor of a new edition of the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, which, in March 2017, was released to the public in open access.[10]
Digital dictionaries & tools[edit]
Dollinger, Stefan (chief editor) and Margery Fee (associate editor). 2017. DCHP-2: The Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, Second Edition. With the assistance of Baillie Ford, Alexandra Gaylie and Gabrielle Lim. Vancouver, BC: University of British Columbia.
Dollinger, Stefan (editor-in-chief), Laurel J. Brinton and Margery Fee (eds.). 2013. DCHP-1 Online: A Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles Online. Based on Avis et al. (1967).
Dollinger, Stefan (editor-in-chief), Laurel Brinton and Margery Fee (eds.) 2006–2016. The Bank of Canadian English. Online database of Canadian texts, 1505 – 2016. 2.7 million words of historical Canadiana
Monographs[edit]
New-Dialect Formation in Canada: Evidence from the English Modal Auxiliaries]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, 2008.
The Written Questionnaire in Social Dialectolgoy: History, Theory, Practice]. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: Benjamins, Dec. 2015.[11]
Edited volumes[edit]
Tracing English Through Time: Explorations in Language Variation], with J. Hüttner, G. Kaltenböck, U. Smith, and U. Lutzky. Festschrift for Herbert Schendl on the occasion of his 65th birthday.[12]
Autonomy and Heterogeneity in Canadian English], in World Englishes, vol. 31, ed. with Sandra Clarke, 2012.[13]
References[edit]
- ↑ Boberg, Charles (2010). The English Language in Canada. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 54. Search this book on
- ↑ "Stefan Dollinger | Department of English". english.ubc.ca. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
- ↑ July-August (p.20),ooe.gv.at[dead link]
- ↑ "Department of English Home Page (2002)". univie.ac.at. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
- ↑ "Jahresbericht 2006-07, Austrian Academy" (PDF). oeaw.ac.at. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
- ↑ "SSHRC Awards Search Engine". uqam.ca. Retrieved 18 November 2017.
- ↑ New professor with a focus on language change, gu.se
- ↑ "A delightful dictionary for Canadian English". UBC News. 2017-03-28. Retrieved 2017-11-18.
- ↑ Ascina Award 2008, ascina.at
- ↑ "DCHP". dchp.ca. Retrieved December 9, 2017.
- ↑ Questionnaire, academia.edu
- ↑ Tracing English, academia.edu
- ↑ Symposium Issue, academia.edu
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