Dolores Lemmenmeier-Batinić, Dr.
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I am a linguist with expertise in creating digital collections of spoken and written language (corpora), focusing on German and Slavic languages. Currently, I work as a research assistant at the School of Applied Linguistics (ZHAW), where I am engaged in the development of a corpus of Swiss public communication.
I obtained my PhD in Linguistics on spoken language corpora at the Slavic Seminar of the University of Zurich, where I worked as an assistant to the Chair for Linguistics from 2019 to 2023. During that time, the main focus of my research was BCMS (Bosnian/Croatian/Montenegrin/Serbian) spoken in Switzerland by heritage language speakers. I studied their language practices, the attitudes they have towards their heritage language, as well as the names they use for it (Jugo, Serbo-Croatian, naš, etc.). I co-conducted a transnational survey on BCMS in the German-speaking diaspora (Lemmenmeier-Batinić & Mayer, 2021), and collected recordings of BCMS spoken in the diaspora in an elicited task developed together with my students (BCMS map tasks).
Currently, I am writing an article on the question whether speakers perceive BCMS as one language or four separate languages, and how they denominate it. I am also finalizing a paper about the CoLiCaSlav-Corpus (beta-version), which was developed to assist introductory courses in Slavic Linguistics. It allows users to compare linguistic categories in several Slavic languages. My next project will be a study on Ikavian dialect and the attitudes towards it in Bosnia and Herzegovina where Ikavian is slowly disappearing.