Lena Zipp
Lab Coordinator at Balthasar Bickel's Distributional Linguistics Lab
Study Advisor and program coordinator at the Department of Comparative Language Science
CAS degree in Research Management from the Zentrum für Universitäre Weiterbildung at the University of Bern.
As a sociolinguist in my former academic career, my research interests lie in the concept of intra-speaker variation (stylistic variation), language attitudes, identity construction, and speaker awareness.
Together with Ruth Kircher, I edited Research Methods in Language Attitudes (July 2022), the first interdisciplinary guide to traditional and cutting-edge methods for the investigation of language attitudes. The book provides an introduction to attitude theory, helps readers choose an appropriate method, and guides through research planning and design, data collection, and analysis. Chapters include step-by-step instructions to illustrate and facilitate the use of the different methods as well as case studies from a wide range of linguistic contexts. The book also goes beyond individual methods by offering guidance on how to research attitudes in multilingual and signing communities, based on historical data, with the help of priming, and by means of mixed-methods approaches.
My corpus-based research on lexico-grammar in Fiji English focuses on linguistic nativization in prepositional verb phrases. It provides an exhaustive description of the status and internal variation of this young post-colonial variety, and contributes to our understanding of the dynamics of variety formation in a multi-ethnic setting.
Educated Fiji English: Lexico-grammar and variety status
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Publications
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An Introduction to Language Attitudes Research. In: Kircher, Ruth; Zipp, Lena. Research Methods in Language Attitudes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-16.
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Questionnaires to Elicit Qualitative Data. In: Kircher, Ruth; Zipp, Lena. Research Methods in Language Attitudes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 145-159.
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World Englishes, migration and diaspora. In: Schreier, Daniel; Hundt, Marianne; Schneider, Edgar W. The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes. Cambridge, 120-141.
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On the relevance of voice quality in contact varieties: non-modal phonation type in Afro-Yungueño Spanish. Language Ecology, 3(1):3-27.
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Review of: Anna M. Babel (ed.). Awareness and control in sociolinguistic research. Cambridge, U.K.: Cambridge University Press. 2016. Journal of Sociolinguistics, 22(1):123-128.
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Code-switching in the media: Identity negotiations in a Gujarati diaspora radio program. International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 247:33-48.
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English in San Francisco Chinatown – Indexing identity with speech rhythm?. In: Seoane, Elena; Suárez Gómez, Cristina. World Englishes: New theoretical and methodological considerations. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 205-228.
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Allan Bell. 2014. The Guidebook to Sociolinguistics: Review. English World-Wide: a journal of varieties of English, 37(1):91-96.
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Attitudes in Fiji towards varieties of English. World Englishes, 34(4):688-707.
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Educated Fiji English. Lexico-grammar and variety status. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
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Indo-Fijian English. Linguistic diaspora or endonormative stabilization?. In: Hundt, Marianne; Sharma, Devyani. English in the Indian Diaspora. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing, 187-213.
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Discovering new verb-preposition combinations in New Englishes. Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English, 13:online.
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Particle verbs across first and second language varieties of English. In: Hundt, Marianne; Gut, Ulrike. Mapping Unity and Diversity World-Wide. Corpus-Based Studies of New Englishes. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 167-196.
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‘Read speech normalization’ (RSN): a method to study prosodic variability in spontaneous speech. In: Lee, Wai-Sum; Zee, Eric. Proceedings of the 17th International Congress of Phonetic Sciences. Hong Kong: International Phonetic Association, 2328-2331.
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Exo- and endonormative models in Fiji – A corpus-based study on the dynamics of first and second language varieties with a focus on Indo-Fijian English. 2010, University of Zurich, Faculty of Arts.
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'How' a Fiji corpus? Challenges in the compilation of an ESL ICE component. ICAME Journal, 34:5-23.