Danko Šipka

Danko Šipka
Šipka in class, 2017.
Born1962 (age 61–62)
Banja Luka, PR Bosnia and Herzegovina, Yugoslavia
EducationPolish Academy of Sciences
Adam Mickiewicz University
University of Belgrade
Occupation(s)Professor of Slavic Languages and Applied Linguistics
EmployerArizona State University
Known forSlavic languages
Lexicography
Lexicology

Danko Šipka (born 1962)[1] is a Serbian American linguist and professor of Slavic languages and applied linguistics at Arizona State University.[2]

Biography

He was born in Banja Luka in 1962.[1] He graduated Slavistics at the Faculty of Philosophy in Sarajevo in 1985[1] and later obtained PhD in linguistics at the Faculty of Philology in Belgrade.[1] He was educated at Polish Academy of Sciences, Adam Mickiewicz University, and University of Belgrade in the fields of linguistics and psychology. He was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Fulbright program, and American Council of Learned Societies fellow. He received fellowships from the Australian National University, and Hokkaido University, Japan. In 2010, he received titular professorship from the president of the Republic of Poland Bronisław Komorowski.[3] He won NCOLCTL Walton Award in 2019.[4] In the spring of 2021 he was an Istvan Deak Visiting Professor at Columbia University[5]

Research

Šipka is the author of various monographs and dictionaries, such as Serbian-English general dictionaries for "Prometej",[6] the monograph titled Lexical Conflict: Theory and practice with Cambridge University Press,[7] Lexical Layers of Identity: Words, Meaning, and Culture in the Slavic Languages,[8] The Geography of Wordswith Cambridge University Press,[9] and Water, Whiskey, and Vodka: A Story of Slavic Languages with Georgetown University Press;[10] His main research interests lie in the fields of lexicography, lexicology, linguistic anthropology, computational linguistics, and Slavic linguistics. In 2017, Sipka has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.[11] Sipka was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages from 2008 to 2020.[12]

References

  1. ^ a b c d Професор Данко Шипка - Предавање I 2022 (in Serbian). University Library Svetozar Marković. 2022-05-10. Event occurs at 44s. Retrieved 2022-05-12.
  2. ^ School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University. "Danko Sipka". Arizona State University. Retrieved 13 March 2015.
  3. ^ "Prezydent wręczył nominacje profesorskie / Nominacje / Aktualności / Archiwum Bronisława Komorowskiego / Oficjalna strona Prezydenta Rzeczypospolitej Polskiej". www.prezydent.pl. Archived from the original on 2019-11-10. Retrieved 2019-11-10.
  4. ^ "Slavic languages professor is 2019 Walton Award recipient". ASU Now: Access, Excellence, Impact. April 9, 2019.
  5. ^ "Danko Sipka, Harriman Center". Archived from the original on 2021-04-12. Retrieved 2021-04-12.
  6. ^ "Издавачка кућа Прометеј, Аутори, Данко Шипка". Archived from the original on 2015-01-03. Retrieved 2015-03-13.
  7. ^ "Lexical conflict theory and practice | Semantics and pragmatics". Cambridge University Press. Archived from the original on April 2, 2015.
  8. ^ Šipka, Danko (May 2, 2019). Lexical Layers of Identity: Words, Meaning, and Culture in the Slavic Languages. doi:10.1017/9781108685795. ISBN 978-1-108-68579-5. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  9. ^ https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/geography-of-words/96135D6C7A76C6BF0AB4978C9DD8C33. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  10. ^ "Water, Whiskey, and Vodka".
  11. ^ Signatories of the Declaration on the Common Language, official website, retrieved on 2018-08-16.
  12. ^ "JNCOLCTL – NCOLCTL".