My name is Ulrich Hoinkes and I am a professor for linguistics and teacher education in the field of Romance Languages (French, Spanish, Catalan, Italian, Occitan) at Kiel University (Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel, Germany).

My main research fields are:

Sociolinguistics
Variational Linguistics
Minority Languages (Occitan, Catalan)
Multilinguism
Lexical Semantics

More recently my research focus lies in:

Multimedia Learning Environment and Filmmaking
Discourse Analysis and Education Research: Threat Scenarios in Social Life.

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I am currently heading the German Association for Catalan Studies (http://www.katalanistik.de), Speaker of the Center on Humanities in Education at Kiel University (ZeBiG – Zentrum für empirische Bildungsforschung in den Geisteswissenschaften) and I'm building a cooperation with Teachers College- Columbia University NYC (http://www.tc.columbia.edu).