Stefan Dollinger
Biographic Data
| ID | 155507 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stefan Dollinger |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stefan |
| FAMILY NAME | Dollinger |
| SIGNATURE | DOLLINGER S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of British Columbia |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5582-5139 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Worldwide Perspectives on English Usage: Into the Third Millennium
The study of English usage has to take account of changes in grammar, word choice and nuances of communication. In recent decades, developments in linguistic methodologies have catalysed modifications In our approach to linguistic variation, with perspectives changing from a primarily prescriptive to a more descriptive approach. Bringing together contributions from a team of distinguished scholars, this book explores sociolinguistic and structura…
Canadian language attitudes from “coast to coast to coast”: On the pluricentricity of English
The present paper explores key aspects of the linguistic autonomy and the character, recognition and social embedding of “Standard Canadian English” (StCanE). Only a few studies have hitherto investigated the phenomenon of linguistic attitudes in Canada and have either focussed on impressionistic assessment or on linguistic insecurity among Canadian English (CanE) speakers. The present paper is based on a national questionnaire survey in all Cana…
Silencing Voices: Indigenous day schools and the education section of the 1958 Hawthorn report for British Columbia
In 1954, the Department of Citizenship and Immigration commissioned anthropologist Harry Hawthorn to investigate problems faced by Indigenous people in British Columbia. This article focuses on Hawthorn’s report, The Indians of British Columbia (1958) and compares its recommendations with the original source questionnaire responses found at the University of British Columbia’s Archives and Special Collections. The responses examined, collected ne…
Eberhard Kranzmayer’s dovetailing with Nazism: His fascist years and the ‘One Standard German Axiom (Osga)
Eberhard Kranzmayer is arguably Austria’s most influential German dialectologist. The present article traces Kranzmayer’s Nazi years (NSDAP member number 8.061.495) in archival sources in Vienna, Graz, Munich, Klagenfurt and Berlin. This account reconstructs Kranzmayer’s role in the Nazi machine, especially his directorship of the ‘Institut für Kärntner Landesforschung’ [Institute for Carinthian Provincial Research]. Kranzmayer’s pan-German and v…
Eberhard Kranzmayer's Deutschtum: On the Austrian Dialectologist's Pan-German Frame of Reference
The present paper offers a close reading of Eberhard Kranzmayer's texts from 1925 to 1960 in an effort to isolate Kranzmayer's major methodological themes. One such theme is a pan-German (großdeutsch) framework, in which the unity of German with a single standard variety is maintained. It will be shown how Kranzmayer used this assumption, combined with his belief in the cultural dominance of all things German, to perform "linguistic land claims" …
Patrick “Paddy” Drysdale (1929–2020)
30 years, roles mostly out of the limelight yet essential
Is digital always better? Comparing two English print dictionaries with their digital counterparts
In this paper we discuss advantages and disadvantages of e-dictionaries over print dictionaries in order to answer one increasingly relevant question: is digital always better? We compare the e-content from Oxford University Press and Merriam-Webster flagship dictionaries against their most recent print counterparts. The resulting data shows that the move from print to digital, against popular perception, results in a loss of lexicographical deta…
What Graeco-Roman Grammar Was About, by Peter Matthews
This book's promotional promise of a coherent account of ancient Latin and Greek grammar with a glimpse into the present is clearly met in this concise publication that is geared towards the linguist who is not a specialist in Classics. The target group is narrow yet makes perfect sense: the Greek tradition, after all, has given rise (via the Renaissance) to the tradition of grammar that we have been teaching in schools until today. Most, if not …
Nan Jiang. 2018. Second Language Processing: An Introduction
This article reviews Second Language Processing: An Introduction EUR 46978-0-415-70804-3978-0-415-70803-6
Psychosis Crisis Associated with Thyrotoxicosis due to Graves’ Disease
We present the case of a patient with previous psychiatric illness, acutely exacerbated by thyroid storm due to Graves’ disease, in whom treatment with antipsychotics induced catatonia. These associations are extremely rare and may be confused with Hashimoto’s encephalopathy, especially in the presence of anti‐thyroid antibodies in cerebrospinal fluid. The treatment consists in the control of the triggering disease (in this case the resolution of…
Take up #9 as a semantic isogloss on the Canada‐US border
This paper explores semantic isoglosses of polysemous words, an understudied aspect of the Canada‐US border by drawing on take up #9 , an isogloss that appears to be spreading through the mainland Canadian population. The variable, which is approached from a philological‐lexicographic as well as a quantitative‐statistical perspective, is interpreted in the light of recent European cross‐borders studies. Analogues with the situations in Austrian G…
Generation Xyz? Lexicology Hard on the Limits of the Generational Metaphor
Book Review| August 01 2016 Generation Xyz? Lexicology Hard on the Limits of the Generational Metaphor From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generations. By Metcalf, Allan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xiii + 209. ISBN 978-0-19-992712-8; $19.95 (ebk $12.99) Stefan Dollinger Stefan Dollinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2016) 91 (3): 385–390. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3701059 Cit…
The western Canada-US border as a linguistic boundary: The roles of L1 and L2 speakers
The present paper uses data from written self-reports from two points of time, 2004 and 2008-10, to gauge the strength of the Canada-US linguistic border in British Columbia's Lower Mainland. With parallel data sets from Metro Vancouver, Canada, and adjacent Washington State, Vancouver English is characterized as a vernacular that - for the 30 variables studied - is not undergoing Americanization. The data for young local residents who were at le…
On the autonomy and homogeneity of Canadian English
This introduction to the symposium approaches the themes of autonomy and homogeneity in Canadian English from a historical perspective. We trace the debates on these topics back to the late 19th century and relate them to changing public attitudes toward Canadian linguistic autonomy over time. We review the scholarly evidence on autonomy and homogeneity and outline the evolving interpretations of these themes from earlier research to that of the …
Academic and public attitudes to the notion of ‘standard’ Canadian English: On Standard Canadian English, those who speak it, those who study it, and those who discuss it
This paper reflects on ‘standards’ in Canadian English in scholarly research and the public debate about English in Canada from a number of viewpoints. The goals of these reflections are three-fold. First, I aim to characterize the chasm between scholarly and public debates about a language ‘standard’ in Canadian English (CanE). While this debate is not new (e.g. Kretzschmar, 2009: 1–5 for a recent example), its application in the Canadian contex…
Varieties of English: Vol. 2: The Americas and the Caribbean edited by Edgar W. Schneider
Canadian English: “Can-Eh-Dian,” Or, the “Continuous Short- A System”
Book Review| November 01 2011 CANADIAN English: “CAN-Eh-Dian,” Or, THE “CONTINUOUS Short-a System” The English Language in Canada: Status, History, and Comparative Analysis By Boberg, CharlesCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xvii + 272. ISBN 978-0-521-87432-8; $110.00 ($88.00 eBook) Stefan Dollinger Stefan Dollinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2011) 86 (4): 480–489. https://doi.org/10…
Canadianism, Americanism, NORTH Americanism: Dare and DCHP as Dialectological Research Tools
This article approaches two repositories of lexical items, the Dictionary of American Regional English and the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, as repositories of historical dialectology. Starting with a detailed comparison of the two historical dictionairies in letter T, the authors discuss and illustrate ways to tap these resources for uses for which they were originally not intended but can be fruitfully exploited. As both …
Written sources for Canadian English: Phonetic reconstruction and the low-back vowel merger
The study of Canadian English has, for the most part, relied on synchronic data and description. Via the apparent-time method and earlier linguistic studies, evidence is available for the most part of the twentieth century. This paper provides possible pathways towards examining pre-twentieth century evidence for Canadian English. Using principles of sociohistorical research, the paper offers an outline of how to make the best use of existing dat…
Uniquely Canadian, Eh
Review Article| November 01 2008 Uniquely Canadian, Eh? Only in Canada, You Say: A Treasury of Canadian Language By Katherine Barber Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. viii + 272. ISBN-13: 9780195427073; $24.95 Stefan Dollinger Stefan Dollinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2008) 83 (4): 472–475. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-2008-033 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twi…
The Modal Auxiliaries have to and must in the Corpus of Early Ontario English: Gradient Change and Colonial Lag
The notion ‘drift’ plays an important role in the development of the modals have to and must in early Canadian English in relation to British and American English during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Have to is first found in texts that reflect informal usage, and for the period in question (1750–1849), have to is only attested with deontic readings; the data suggest that its rise was not exclusively conditioned by the defective paradig…
The western Canada-US border as a linguistic boundary: The roles of L1 and L2 speakers
The present paper uses data from written self-reports from two points of time, 2004 and 2008-10, to gauge the strength of the Canada-US linguistic border in British Columbia's Lower Mainland. With parallel data sets from Metro Vancouver, Canada, and adjacent Washington State, Vancouver English is characterized as a vernacular that - for the 30 variables studied - is not undergoing Americanization. The data for young local residents who were at le…
The Modal Auxiliaries have to and must in the Corpus of Early Ontario English: Gradient Change and Colonial Lag
The notion ‘drift’ plays an important role in the development of the modals have to and must in early Canadian English in relation to British and American English during the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Have to is first found in texts that reflect informal usage, and for the period in question (1750–1849), have to is only attested with deontic readings; the data suggest that its rise was not exclusively conditioned by the defective paradig…
Uniquely Canadian, Eh
Review Article| November 01 2008 Uniquely Canadian, Eh? Only in Canada, You Say: A Treasury of Canadian Language By Katherine Barber Don Mills, Ontario: Oxford University Press, 2007. Pp. viii + 272. ISBN-13: 9780195427073; $24.95 Stefan Dollinger Stefan Dollinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2008) 83 (4): 472–475. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-2008-033 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twi…
Written sources for Canadian English: Phonetic reconstruction and the low-back vowel merger
The study of Canadian English has, for the most part, relied on synchronic data and description. Via the apparent-time method and earlier linguistic studies, evidence is available for the most part of the twentieth century. This paper provides possible pathways towards examining pre-twentieth century evidence for Canadian English. Using principles of sociohistorical research, the paper offers an outline of how to make the best use of existing dat…
Academic and public attitudes to the notion of ‘standard’ Canadian English: On Standard Canadian English, those who speak it, those who study it, and those who discuss it
This paper reflects on ‘standards’ in Canadian English in scholarly research and the public debate about English in Canada from a number of viewpoints. The goals of these reflections are three-fold. First, I aim to characterize the chasm between scholarly and public debates about a language ‘standard’ in Canadian English (CanE). While this debate is not new (e.g. Kretzschmar, 2009: 1–5 for a recent example), its application in the Canadian contex…
Varieties of English: Vol. 2: The Americas and the Caribbean edited by Edgar W. Schneider
Canadian English: “Can-Eh-Dian,” Or, the “Continuous Short- A System”
Book Review| November 01 2011 CANADIAN English: “CAN-Eh-Dian,” Or, THE “CONTINUOUS Short-a System” The English Language in Canada: Status, History, and Comparative Analysis By Boberg, CharlesCambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010. Pp. xvii + 272. ISBN 978-0-521-87432-8; $110.00 ($88.00 eBook) Stefan Dollinger Stefan Dollinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2011) 86 (4): 480–489. https://doi.org/10…
Canadianism, Americanism, NORTH Americanism: Dare and DCHP as Dialectological Research Tools
This article approaches two repositories of lexical items, the Dictionary of American Regional English and the Dictionary of Canadianisms on Historical Principles, as repositories of historical dialectology. Starting with a detailed comparison of the two historical dictionairies in letter T, the authors discuss and illustrate ways to tap these resources for uses for which they were originally not intended but can be fruitfully exploited. As both …
The western Canada-US border as a linguistic boundary: The roles of L1 and L2 speakers
The present paper uses data from written self-reports from two points of time, 2004 and 2008-10, to gauge the strength of the Canada-US linguistic border in British Columbia's Lower Mainland. With parallel data sets from Metro Vancouver, Canada, and adjacent Washington State, Vancouver English is characterized as a vernacular that - for the 30 variables studied - is not undergoing Americanization. The data for young local residents who were at le…
On the autonomy and homogeneity of Canadian English
This introduction to the symposium approaches the themes of autonomy and homogeneity in Canadian English from a historical perspective. We trace the debates on these topics back to the late 19th century and relate them to changing public attitudes toward Canadian linguistic autonomy over time. We review the scholarly evidence on autonomy and homogeneity and outline the evolving interpretations of these themes from earlier research to that of the …
Take up #9 as a semantic isogloss on the Canada‐US border
This paper explores semantic isoglosses of polysemous words, an understudied aspect of the Canada‐US border by drawing on take up #9 , an isogloss that appears to be spreading through the mainland Canadian population. The variable, which is approached from a philological‐lexicographic as well as a quantitative‐statistical perspective, is interpreted in the light of recent European cross‐borders studies. Analogues with the situations in Austrian G…
Generation Xyz? Lexicology Hard on the Limits of the Generational Metaphor
Book Review| August 01 2016 Generation Xyz? Lexicology Hard on the Limits of the Generational Metaphor From Skedaddle to Selfie: Words of the Generations. By Metcalf, Allan. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xiii + 209. ISBN 978-0-19-992712-8; $19.95 (ebk $12.99) Stefan Dollinger Stefan Dollinger Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google American Speech (2016) 91 (3): 385–390. https://doi.org/10.1215/00031283-3701059 Cit…
Psychosis Crisis Associated with Thyrotoxicosis due to Graves’ Disease
We present the case of a patient with previous psychiatric illness, acutely exacerbated by thyroid storm due to Graves’ disease, in whom treatment with antipsychotics induced catatonia. These associations are extremely rare and may be confused with Hashimoto’s encephalopathy, especially in the presence of anti‐thyroid antibodies in cerebrospinal fluid. The treatment consists in the control of the triggering disease (in this case the resolution of…
What Graeco-Roman Grammar Was About, by Peter Matthews
This book's promotional promise of a coherent account of ancient Latin and Greek grammar with a glimpse into the present is clearly met in this concise publication that is geared towards the linguist who is not a specialist in Classics. The target group is narrow yet makes perfect sense: the Greek tradition, after all, has given rise (via the Renaissance) to the tradition of grammar that we have been teaching in schools until today. Most, if not …
Nan Jiang. 2018. Second Language Processing: An Introduction
This article reviews Second Language Processing: An Introduction EUR 46978-0-415-70804-3978-0-415-70803-6
Is digital always better? Comparing two English print dictionaries with their digital counterparts
In this paper we discuss advantages and disadvantages of e-dictionaries over print dictionaries in order to answer one increasingly relevant question: is digital always better? We compare the e-content from Oxford University Press and Merriam-Webster flagship dictionaries against their most recent print counterparts. The resulting data shows that the move from print to digital, against popular perception, results in a loss of lexicographical deta…
Patrick “Paddy” Drysdale (1929–2020)
30 years, roles mostly out of the limelight yet essential
Eberhard Kranzmayer's Deutschtum: On the Austrian Dialectologist's Pan-German Frame of Reference
The present paper offers a close reading of Eberhard Kranzmayer's texts from 1925 to 1960 in an effort to isolate Kranzmayer's major methodological themes. One such theme is a pan-German (großdeutsch) framework, in which the unity of German with a single standard variety is maintained. It will be shown how Kranzmayer used this assumption, combined with his belief in the cultural dominance of all things German, to perform "linguistic land claims" …
Silencing Voices: Indigenous day schools and the education section of the 1958 Hawthorn report for British Columbia
In 1954, the Department of Citizenship and Immigration commissioned anthropologist Harry Hawthorn to investigate problems faced by Indigenous people in British Columbia. This article focuses on Hawthorn’s report, The Indians of British Columbia (1958) and compares its recommendations with the original source questionnaire responses found at the University of British Columbia’s Archives and Special Collections. The responses examined, collected ne…
Eberhard Kranzmayer’s dovetailing with Nazism: His fascist years and the ‘One Standard German Axiom (Osga)
Eberhard Kranzmayer is arguably Austria’s most influential German dialectologist. The present article traces Kranzmayer’s Nazi years (NSDAP member number 8.061.495) in archival sources in Vienna, Graz, Munich, Klagenfurt and Berlin. This account reconstructs Kranzmayer’s role in the Nazi machine, especially his directorship of the ‘Institut für Kärntner Landesforschung’ [Institute for Carinthian Provincial Research]. Kranzmayer’s pan-German and v…
Worldwide Perspectives on English Usage: Into the Third Millennium
The study of English usage has to take account of changes in grammar, word choice and nuances of communication. In recent decades, developments in linguistic methodologies have catalysed modifications In our approach to linguistic variation, with perspectives changing from a primarily prescriptive to a more descriptive approach. Bringing together contributions from a team of distinguished scholars, this book explores sociolinguistic and structura…
Canadian language attitudes from “coast to coast to coast”: On the pluricentricity of English
The present paper explores key aspects of the linguistic autonomy and the character, recognition and social embedding of “Standard Canadian English” (StCanE). Only a few studies have hitherto investigated the phenomenon of linguistic attitudes in Canada and have either focussed on impressionistic assessment or on linguistic insecurity among Canadian English (CanE) speakers. The present paper is based on a national questionnaire survey in all Cana…
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