Antonio oštarić

Name and Surname:         Antonio Oštarić

Date of Birth:                    30 July 1979

Address:                           English Department

                                       University of Zadar

                                       Obala kralja Petra Krešimira IV No. 2

Telephone:                       +385 23 200 713

E-mail:                              antonio.ostaric@unizd.hr

 

EDUCATION

2004 -                  Postgraduate Doctoral Programme "European Studies: Languages and

                          Cultures in Contact"

                          Module: Linguistics and Culture

                          University of Zadar

1997 - 2005         Graduate Studies:             English Language and Literature

                                                                 Italian Language and Literature

                          Graduated on 30 March 2005 with the thesis:

                          "Origin and Development of English First Names"

                          Mentor:  Professor Dora Maček (University of Zagreb)

1993 - 1997         Grammar School "Bartul Kašić" Pag

 

EMPLOYMENT

2006 -                  University of Zadar

                          Department of English Studies

                          Research and Teaching Assistant

 

PARTICIPATION IN SCIENTIFIC PROJECTS

2007 -    2011       Scientific Project No. 269-1301049-0907

                          "Conceptual Differences between Croatian, English and Italian:

                          Selected Cognitive Areas”

2009 -    2011       Scientific Project No. 269-2120920-0896

                          “Perception and Articulation in the Croatian Language”

 

COURSES AT THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH STUDIES (UNDERGRADUATE)

2011/2012           Morphology

                          Introduction to Syntax

2010/2011           Morphology

                          Introduction to Syntax

2009/2010           Morphology

                          Introduction to Syntax

2008/2009           Introduction to Syntax

                          Morphology

2007/2008           Morphology

 

COURSES AT THE DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH STUDIES (GRADUATE)

2007/2008           English Lexicology (seminar)

2006/2007           English Lexicology (seminar)

 

MEMBERSHIP

2006 -                 Croatian Applied Linguistics Society

2010 -                  International Association of Multilingualism

 

PARTICIPATION IN CONFERENCES

25 – 27 May 2006            Marina Oštarić and Antonio Oštarić: "Irish Identity and Ethnic Stereotype in the English Language

                                       Language and Identity – 20th International Conference,

                                       CALS, Split, Croatia

 24 – 26 May 2007            Antonio Oštarić „Terminology of Global Ecology in International Newspapers                                        in English

                                       Language Policy and Language Reality – 21st International

                                       Conference,  CALS, Split, Croatia

 3 - 6 September 2009       Malgorzata E. Ćavar and Antonio Oštarić: “Sibilant Inventory and the                                            Realization of Vowels: A Study of the Dialects of Pag”

                                       Fourth Annual Meeting of the Slavic Linguistic Society

                                       SLS 2009, University of Zadar, Croatia

11 - 15 April 2010             New Challenges for Multilingualism in Europe

                                       International Conference

                                       LINEE Network of Excellence, Dubrovnik, Croatia       

11 - 14 May 2011              Malgorzata E- Ćavar and Antonio Oštarić: “Perception of English vocalic                                        contrasts by Croatian L2 learners

                                       Applied Linguistics Today: Research and Perspectives - 25th

                                       Symposium of the Croatian Applied Linguistics Society

                                       Osijek (Croatia), Faculty of Philosophy

15 - 17 September 2011    Antonio Oštarić: “Linguistic Ecology of Zadar: Multilingualism

                                       in Distress”

                                       Seventh International Conference on Third Language

                                       Acquisition and Multilingualism

                                       Institute of English Studies, University of Warsaw, Poland

2 - 3 December 2011         Antonio Oštarić: “Linguistic Landscape of Zadar”

                                       Modern Languages Symposium - Royal Irish Academy Conference

                                       Dublin Institute of Technology, Dublin, Irska

4 - 6  May 2012                 Antonio Oštarić: “Language in the Public Space of a Dalmatian Town: The                                        Linguistic Landscape of Zadar”

                                       2nd Linee Conference: Multilingualism in the Public Sphere

                                       Dubrovnik, Inter-University Centre

4 - 6 May 2012                  Sanja Škifić and Antonio Oštarić: “Multilingualism, Language Ideology and                                         Population Censuses: Language Policy Practices in Immigration Countries”

                                       2nd Linee Conference: Multilingualism in the Public Sphere

                                       Dubrovnik, Inter-University Centre

 

PUBLISHED ARTICLES

1. Oštarić Marina, Oštarić Antonio (2007) Irish Identity and Ethnic Stereotype in the English Language

// Language and Identity / Granić Jagoda (ed.) - Zagreb-Split, Croatian Association for Applied Linguistics, pp. 419-426 (ISBN: 978-953-7494-00-1).

2. Oštarić, Antonio (2011) Summer Institute in Cognitive Science 2010: The Origins of Language. Suvremena lingvistika 71, 145-149. (a chronicle)

 

PARTICIPATION IN SUMMER SCHOOLS AND OTHER COURSES

2006       A Summer Seminar in American Social and Cultural History

             University of Zadar

             (Professor Max Reichard, Delgado Community College, New Orleans, USA)

2010       Summer Institute in Cognitive Sciences: The Origin of Language

             21 - 30 June 2010,  Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada

2010       Interdisciplinary Summer School, Workshop and Round Table in Computational                             Linguistics, Cognitive and Information Science” CLS 2010

             22 August - 3 September 2010, University of Zadar

 

FOREIGN LANGUAGES

English, Italian

German, Spanish (beginner level)

 

OTHER ACTIVITIES

Choir (Dalmatian klapa) singing, playing bagpipes (Dalmatian mih)

Translation

Zadar Linguistic Wednesday at the University of Zadar