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Lena Zipp

Distributional Linguistics Lab

NCCR Evolving Language

Lab Coordinator at Balthasar Bickel's Distributional Linguistics Lab

Study Advisor and program coordinator

Certificate of Advanced Studies degree in Research Management from the Lifelong Learning Center, 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

Zipp, Lena (2022). Questionnaires to Elicit Qualitative Data In: Kircher, Ruth; Zipp, Lena . Research Methods in Language Attitudes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 145-159.
Research Methods in Language Attitudes Edited by: Kircher, Ruth; Zipp, Lena (2022). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Kircher, Ruth; Zipp, Lena (2022). An Introduction to Language Attitudes Research In: Kircher, Ruth; Zipp, Lena . Research Methods in Language Attitudes. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1-16.
Zipp, Lena (2019). World Englishes, migration and diaspora In: Schreier, Daniel; Hundt, Marianne; Schneider, Edgar W . The Cambridge Handbook of World Englishes. Cambridge, 120-141.
Zipp, Lena (2019). Review of Sandra C. Deshors, Sandra Götz and Samantha Laporte (eds.). 2018. Rethinking Creativity in Non-Native Englishes. Amsterdam: John Benjamins ICAME Journal, 43(1):123-128.
Perez, Danae Maria; Zipp, Lena (2019). On the relevance of voice quality in contact varieties: non-modal phonation type in Afro-Yungueño Spanish Language Ecology, 3(1):3-27.
Zipp, Lena (2018). 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.
Zipp, Lena (2017). Code-switching in the media: Identity negotiations in a Gujarati diaspora radio program International Journal of the Sociology of Language, 247:33-48.
Zipp, Lena (2016). Allan Bell. 2014. The Guidebook to Sociolinguistics: Review English World-Wide: a journal of varieties of English, 37(1):91-96.
Zipp, Lena; Staicov, Adina (2016). English in San Francisco Chinatown – Indexing identity with speech rhythm?
Hundt, Marianne; Zipp, Lena; Huber, André (2015). Attitudes in Fiji towards varieties of English World Englishes, 34(4):688-707.
Zipp, Lena (2014). Educated Fiji English. Lexico-grammar and variety status Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing.
Zipp, Lena (2014). Indo-Fijian English. Linguistic diaspora or endonormative stabilization?
Schneider, Gerold; Zipp, Lena (2013). Discovering new verb-preposition combinations in New Englishes Studies in Variation, Contacts and Change in English, 13:online.
Zipp, Lena; Bernaisch, Tobias (2012). 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.
Zipp, Lena; Dellwo, Volker (2011). ‘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.
Zipp, Lena . 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.
Biewer, Carolin; Hundt, Marianne; Zipp, Lena (2010). 'How' a Fiji corpus? Challenges in the compilation of an ESL ICE component ICAME Journal, 34:5-23.