Nikola Dobrić

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Nikola Dobrić (born September 28, 1982 in Odžaci ) is an Austrian linguist. He is currently working as an assistant professor (Post.Doc.) In linguistics at the Institute for English and American Studies at the Faculty of Cultural Studies at the Alpen Adria University of Klagenfurt (Austria).

Life

Dobrić graduated from the University of Novi Sad (Serbia) in English literature in 2006. From 2004 to 2007 he taught English at the “Ivo Lola Ribar” elementary school in Plavna, Serbia. In 2007 he began a master's degree in “Corpus Linguistics”, which he completed in 2009 under the supervision of Randall Major. In 2008 and 2009 Dobrić worked as a language teacher at the “Novi Sad School of Business”. In the 2009/2010 academic year he began to work as a university assistant at the Institute for English and American Studies at the Alpen Adria University of Klagenfurt. In September 2012 he obtained a PhD in Computer Linguistics and Natural Language Processing with the title “Can you really know a word by the company it keeps? - An investigation into the contextual influence on aspects of polysemy ”at the University of Klagenfurt under the guidance of Allan James and Veronica Zima-Smith.

Nikola Dobrić regularly teaches courses in the field of digital humanities (corpus linguistics) and language tests (evaluation of written texts). He also taught at the University of Ljubljana (Slovenia) and the University of Novi Sad (Serbia). He led several national and international projects in the areas of natural language processing and test validation.

Dobrić is the author of 50 different publications. These include some monographs and anthologies. He is also the editor-in-chief of "OA journal Colloquium - New Philologies".

In recent years he has received an educational research award in 2014 and a team award for the innovation award in 2016, which is awarded by the Carinthian Economic Promotion Fund (Austria).

In addition to his academic work, Dobrić is active as an expert advisor to the European Commission (EACEA and Horizon 2020), the European Parliament, and several national and international economic funds. He is also an active member of the linguistics specialist group in Carinthia and is one of the faces of the Carinthian International Center (CIC).

Work (selection)

  • 2018: Conceptualization of Validity in Educational Testing - Historical Discussion and Contemporary Consensus . Works from English and American Studies, No. 1, Vol 43: 3-25.
  • 2016: Corpus-based Applied Linguistics - Use Across Disciplines (with Eva-Maria Graf and Alexander Onysko). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
  • 2015: Metaphors Conceptualizing Illnesses - The Case of the Flu (with Franzisca Weder). Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. Oxfordshire: Taylor and Francis Group.
  • 2015: Three-factor Prototypicality Evaluation and the Verb Look . Language Sciences, 50: 1-11.
  • 2013: The Theory and Practice of Corpus-based Semantics . Gunter Narr Published by Tübingen.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ AAU.at: Award of the 2014 Education Research Award. Accessed on January 14, 2020 .
personal data
SURNAME Dobrić, Nikola
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian linguist
DATE OF BIRTH September 28, 1982
PLACE OF BIRTH Odžaci