Profile
Academic Research Fellow in Sociolinguistics (quantitative/ qualitative research)
Current interest: Diaspora and language maintenance
Successful fundraising/grant applications (DFG, DAAD)
Experience as advisor for academic grant applications (DAAD, International office, Viadrina University)
Experience as Member of grant Boards for the DAAD (German Academic Exchange Service) in Latvia and Estonia
Expertise in South East Slavonic Studies
Fluent in German (native), Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian (native), English (near-native); good Russian and French skills, some Spanish, Estonian and Latvian
Extensive International Professional Experience (UK, Baltic States, Balkans, United Nations/ New York)
Secondary School Teaching experience for IB German at Bilingual International Schools in Berlin
CV
born in Erlangen, lives in Berlin
| Since 09/2019 | Senior Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Institute for Slavonic Studies at the University of Regensburg |
| 09/2014 – 11/2015 | Lecturer for Bosnian, Croatian and Serbian at the Institute for Slavonic Studies, University of Hamburg |
| 04/2011 – 12/2012 | Lecturer in Sociolinguistics at the Europa-University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Lehrstuhl für Sprachgebrauch und Sprachvergleich (Department for Language Variation) |
| 05/2009 – 04/2011 | Research Fellow at the Humboldt University Berlin, Institute for Slavonic Studies; DFG (German Research Foundation): extensive empirical research in Bosnia, quantitative and qualitative |
| 02/2008 | PhD at Europa Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt Oder „Magna cum laude“ Thesis: Bosnien und Herzegowina: Sprachliche Divergenz auf dem Prüfstand (published 2009, Munich: Sagner)/ linguistic divergency in Bosnia and Herzegovina |
| 09/2005 – 12/2005 | United Nations Headquarters, New York, USA conference management/public relations |
| 10/2002 – 09/2004 | PhD studies at University of Reading (working away), School of Linguistics and Applied Language Studies, U.K., Supervisor: Prof Paul Kerswill |
| 09/2002 – 09/2004 | University Lecturer in Linguistics and German via the DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service at Liepajas Pedagogijas Akademija, Latvia Simultaneously: PhD studies (see: Education) |
| 09/2000 – 06/2001 | Language Assistant in Linguistics and German via the DAAD at the Eesti Humantitaarinstitut, Tallinn, Estonia |
| 09/1999 – 06/2000 | University Lecturer in German, Cultural Studies and Linguistics at the University of Ulster, Coleraine and (London) Derry, Northern Ireland |
| 1997 | Teaching assistantship via PAD (German Pedagogical Exchange) for German at Secondary school level in Cambridge, U.K |
| 1994 – 1999 | Magister Artium, M.A. Studies in English, Slavonic Studies and German at Friedrich-Alexander-University, Erlangen Nürnberg |
Publications
Tolimir-Hölzl, N. (2013). Language attitudes in the Republika Srpska. In: Grondelaers, S. und Kristiansen, T. Language (De)standardisation in Late Modern Europe: Experimental Studies . SLICE Volume 2. Novus Forlag, Oslo.
Tolimir-Hölzl, N. (2013) Die Volkszählung in Bosnien und Herzegowina 2013: Zur Problematik der ethnischen Kategorisierung über die Sprachenfrage. In: Südosteuropamitteilungen, 06/2013, SOG München.
Tolimir-Hölzl, N. (2013) Review: Sprach(en)politik in Bosnien und Herzegowina und im deutschsprachigen Raum. Sammelband zur gleichnamigen Konferenz in Sarajevo. GI et al. Sarajevo (2011). In: Südosteuropamitteilungen 05/2013, SOG München.
Tolimir-Hölzl, N. (2011) „Die Unterschiede sind nun da“: Zur sprachlichen Entwicklung in Bosnien und Herzegowina. In: Zeitschrift für Slawistik. Berlin: Akademie Verlag GmbH.
Tolimir-Hölzl, N. (2011). Linguistic Divergence in Bosnia: considerations about vertical and horizontal levelling. In: Fishman, Joshua. A. International Journal of the Sociology of Language.
Tolimir-Hölzl, N. (2009). Bosnien und Herzegowina: Sprachliche Divergenz auf dem Prüfstand. München: Verlag Otto Sagner. (Phd-thesis)
Reviews/Member
| Since 2019 | Internal review for Tajkomoji kalbotyra |
| 2015 | Conference paper Reviews for: The International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (Iclave) |
| since 2014 | Internal Reviews for Bloomsbury, U.K. |
| since 2012 | Internal Reviews for Zeitschrift für Slawistik |
| since 2012 | Internal Reviews for Palgrave Macmillan, U.K. |
| since 2011 | HiSoN (Historical Sociolinguistics Network) |
| since 2010 | Member of SLICE (Standard Language Ideologies in Contemporary Europe) |
| since 2010 | Member of Südosteuropagesellschaft (Organization for Southeast Europe), SOG, Munich |
Conferences
upcoming
| Sociolinguistics Symposium 23 in Hong Kong: “Unsettling language” | |
June 2018
| Sociolinguistics Symposium 22 in Auckland, Neuseeland. 27.-30.06.2018. Paper: “North, South, East and West: migration and language maintenance”. | |
April 2017
| Hison (Historical Sociolinguistics Network) Konferenz: Examining the Social in Historical Sociolinguistics; New York University/ CUNY Graduate Centre, New York USA. 6.-7.4.2017 Paper: "Diaspora research: Sociolinguistic research of the BCMS diaspora in Germany. | |
May 2017 | University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland. Konferenz: Approaches to migration, language and identity, 4.-6.5.2017 Paper: "Language maintenance and linguistic identity in times of change: Linguistic maintenance in the German BCMS diaspora"
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June 2017 | ICLAVE 9 (International Conference on Language Variation in Europe), 6.-9.6. 2017 Malaga, Spain Paper: "Diaspora and language change: Social clubs and their role in language maintenance" | |
July 2017 | Sociolinguistic Summer School, Lesbos, Greece. | |
June 2016
| Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, Murcia, Spain: Attitudes and Prestige, 15.-18.06.2016 Paper: "Linguistic divergence within the Bosnian diaspora #radicalisationabroad | |
| August 2011 | Hison: Sociolinguistic Summer School, Lesbos, Greece with J. Chambers, D. Preston, P. Trudgill | |
| June 2010 | Sociolinguistics Symposium 18 in Southhampton, U.K., presenter | |
| 2010 | 1,2,3: meine Sprache, deine Sprache, unsere Sprache: Sprachgebrauch in mehrsprachigen Räumen. Europa-Universität Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder) / Collegium Polonicum, Slubice, Polen | |
| 2007 | Lanchart Summer School of Sociolinguistics, Copenhagen with P. Kerswill, L. Milroy, D. Preston, J. Chambers | |
| 2004 | British Association for Applied Linguistics, BAAL/CUP: „Language and Identity” Reading: University of Reading
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| 2003 | Gesellschaft für Angewandte LInguistik GAL Tagung Wuppertal: „Mehrsprachige Individuen-vielsprachige Gesellschaften.“ |
