Dr. Alexander D. Hoyt, Senior Lector

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Education

2012  Ph.D. in linguistics, University of Zagreb
 1996  M.A. in linguistics, University of Zagreb
 1986  B.A. iz linguistics, University of Pennsylvania

Employment

2002 Senior lector, English Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
1992-2002 Foreign lector, English Department, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
1990/91 English teacher, Center for Foreign Languages, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
1989/90 English teacher, School for Foreign Languages (“Varšavska”), Zagreb

Areas of interest
Historical sociolinguistics, Language and identity

Undergraduate courses
Translation workshop

Graduate courses
Historical Sociolinguistics

Academic Writing
Contemporary English language 4

Member
HDPL –
Croatian Applied Linguistics Society

HUAmS – Croatian Association for American Studies
HFD – Croatian Philological Society

Book (in Croatian):
· Hrvatski jezik u Zagrebu: sociolingvistički pogled. Zagreb: Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada, 2012.

Selected works:
– 1992  “No mo’ više: Kako govori i što zna naš dvogodišnji bilingvalac”. In: Strani jezik u dodiru sa materinskim jezikom. Zagreb: Hrvatsko društvo za primjenjenu lingvistiku. Co-authored with Anja Nikolić-Hoyt.

– 1993 “A Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Zagreb Vernacular”. In: Sprach – Sprechen – Handeln: Akten des 28. Linguistischen Kolloquiums, Graz 1993. Tübingen, Max Niemeyer Verlag. 245-250.
– 1995 Milan Moguš, A History of the Croatian Language: Toward a Common Standard. Zagreb: Nakladni zavod Globus. Co-translated with Lelija Socanac.
– 1996 The Croatian Language in Zagreb: A Sociolinguistic Study. Master’s thesis. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb
– 1996 “‘Jezicna situacija’ kao sociolingvisticki termin”. Zbornik Hrvatskog filološkog skupa u Rijeci, 24.-25. lipnja. 37-41.
– 1998 “Language and Identity”. Suvremena lingvistika. 41/42. 221-226.
– 2001 Rudolf Filipovic i Damir Kalogjera (special issue eds), Sociolinguistics in Croatia, special 147th edition International Journal of the Sociology of Language (Joshua Fishman, main.ed.) Translated three articles and revised entire issue.
– 2007 “The Expression of Urban Identity in Croatian Hip-Hop Lyrics”. In: Jagoda Granic (ed.), Jezik i identiteti. Zbornik XX. znanstvenog skupa Hrvatskog društva za primijenjenu lingvistiku s međunarodnim sudjelovanjem.
– 2012 Building a historical corpus of Croatian correspondence. Zbornik XXIV. skupa Hrvatskog društva za primijenjenu lingvistiku. (in print).
– 2012 A Historical Sociolinguistic Analysis of the Written Correspondence of Vjekoslav Spinčić. Doctoral dissertation. University of Zagreb.