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Sara Lynch Sara Lynch studied Anthropology and Spanish at Maynooth University, Ireland and Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain, before obtaining an M.A. in Linguistics in University College Dublin in 2013. She spent 2013-2015 in Madrid working as part of the Spanish Ministry of Education’s National Bilingual Programme. Her main research interests are emerging Englishes, sociopragmatics, sociophonology, intercultural communication, Irish English, and mobilty and language.
She joined the University of Bern in April 2015, and is currently finishing her PhD for the SNF-funded project "English in paradise?: Emergent varieties in Micronesia" focusing on the history, development and structure of Kosraean English. PhD thesis summary: I investigate sociolinguistic effects on the emergence of English in the Federated States of Micronesia. I obtained the 96 sociolinguistic interviews as data for this project during a 3 month fieldtrip to Kosrae in 2015 supported by the Swiss National Science Foundation. Through a World Englishes lens, I provide an overview description of Kosraean English and using a language variation and change approach I examine three linguistic variables (/h/ deletion, [h] insertion and quotatives) quantitatively. |
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TEACHING
(Seminars and guest lectures & national exams) October, 2018 July, 2018 July, 2018 October, 2017 July, 2017 May, 2017 February, 2016 Autumn Semester 2015 June, 2015 2014-2015 2014-2015 2013-2014 Spring Semester, 2013 |
The syntax of Irish English today. Modern English Grammar in Action. (B.A. Seminar for Hannah Hedegard). English Department, University of Bern, Switzerland. National high school leaving exams (Matura) , English oral and written exam examiner. College Du Sud, Bulle, Fribourg, Switzerland. National high school leaving exams (Matura) , English oral and written exam examiner. Gymnasium Seefeld, Thun, Switzerland. Data collection methods. Fieldwork Methods in Sociolinguistic Dialectology. (M.A. Seminar for Prof. David Britain). English Department, University of Bern, Switzerland. National high school leaving exams (Matura) , English oral and written exam examiner. Gymnasium Oberaargau, Langenthal, Switzerland. Changing Kosrae: American language and cultural influence on a secret Pacific Island. Working with language and ideology: How to critically analyse metalinguistic discourse. (M.A. seminar for Christoph Neuenschwander). University of Lausanne, Switzerland. Sociolinguistic and variationist work on Kosrae. Sociolinguistics. (B.A. and M.A. seminar for Prof. Bettina Migge). UCD School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics, University College Dublin, Ireland. Englishes of the Pacific (BA Seminar). Department of English Languages and Literatures, University of Bern, Switzerland. English in Micronesia (Education Workshop). Pacific Island Bilingual and Bi-cultural Association Conference, Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia. Business English teacher. Thamesis Asesoría Lingüística, Madrid, Spain. English as a Foreign language for Primary and Post Primary Educators for the Spanish National Bilingual Programme, Madrid. Nuestra Señora de Los Angeles, Madrid, Spain. Nuestra Señora del Carmen, Madrid, Spain. English language auxiliar. Colegio Publico Ciudad Pegaso, CEIP, Madrid, Spain. Irish as a Foreign Language (MA Workshop class). UCD School of Irish, Celtic Studies, Irish Folklore & Linguistics, University College Dublin, Ireland. |
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PRESENTATIONS and ORGANISATION
June 2018 June 2018 January 2018 November 2017 August, 2017 June 2017 May 2017 May 2017 April 2017 April 2017 March 2017 March 2017 September 2016 August 2016 June 2016 June 2016 May 2016 May 2016 May 2016 April 2016 April 2016 March 2016 March 2016 March 2016 December 2015 October 2015 October 2015 October 2015 March 2015 |
Sociolinguistics Symposium, twenty two. University of Auckland, New Zealand Discourse Marker like as Evidence of Static and Mobile Language Contact in Kosraean English. (Conference presentation) (Lynch, S.) Sociolinguistics Symposium, twenty two. University of Auckland, New Zealand The discursive construction of 'violent societies': colonial stereotypes in the representation of island communities in the Pacific. (Co-authored conference presentation) (Lynch, S. Neuenschwander, C.) Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBK): Beiratssitzung, University of Bern, Switzerland The Sociolinguistics of Micronesian Islands. (Co-authored research event poster) (Hess, D. B., Kuske, E., Leonhardt, T., Lynch, S., & Mettler, L.) NWAV46, University of Wisonson, Madison, USA /h/ insertion in a PacificEnglish: The developing methods of understanding a non-standard feature in the Federated States of Micronesia. (Conference presentation) (Lynch, S.) Methods in Dialectology XVI, NINJAL, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan The Influence of Static and Mobile Language Contact on an Emerging Pacific English (Conference presentation) (Lynch, S) International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE9), University of Malaga, Spain A varationist linguistic analysis of the emerging English in Kosrae, Micronesia (Conference presentation) (Lynch, S.) Phil.hist. Forschungstag 2017, University of Bern, Switzerland The development of English varieties in Micronesia (Co-athored research event Poster) (Hess, D. B., Kuske, E., Leonhardt, T., Lynch, S., & Mettler, L.) Approaches to Migration, Language and Identity (AMLI), University of Lausanne, Switzerland Cultural obliteration or making headway ?: a sociolinguistic narrative of the effects of mobility in the Pacific (Conference presentation) (Lynch, S.) IMEAN 5, UWE Bristol's Exhibition and Conference Centre (ECC), United Kingdom An Ethnographic and Linguistic Analysis on the Impact of Mobility in a North Pacific Speech Community (Conference presentation) (Lynch, S.) The challenge of change in English language and literature, University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland A Variationist Analysis of the Development of English in the Pacific (Conference presentation) (Lynch, S.) 4th Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization (LCTG 4), University of Greifswald, Germany The dynamics of language contact in Micronesia (Co-authored conference presentation) (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Studies of Paradise: Where language meets culture in the Pacific, University of Bern, Switzerland Conference co-organisation and moderation (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) “Who am I?”: The post-colonial effects on senses of belonging and language practices in Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia (Conference presentation) (Lynch, S.) Big data, bad data (CUSO Workshop), University of Lausanne, Switzerland Micronesian Data Mining: Searching for Sense in the South Seas (Workshop presentation) (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Phonetics Laboratory, University of Cambridge, England Sounds of the South Seas: Insights into three acoustic variables (Co-authored talk) (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, University of Murcia, Spain. Cases of Epenthesis and Deletion in the Pacific: The intriguing realization of /h/ in Kosraean English (Conference presentation) (Lynch, S.). Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, University of Murcia, Spain Kiribati, Kosrae and Saipan: Effects of Mobility on Micronesian Englishes (Co-authored presentation) (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Forschungskolloquium Berner Linguistik / Research colloquium Bernese linguistics (BeLing) University of Bern, Switzerland Mobility Effects on Micronesian Englishes (Co-authored research network presentation) (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) English Department Retreat, Kiental, Switzerland Kiribati, Kosrae and Saipan: Sociolinguistic overview of Micronesian Englishes (Co-authored departmental presentation) (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Monash University, Melbourne, Australia English in Kosrae and Realisations of /h/ (Invited speaker) (Lynch, S.) Forum Graduate School of the Humanities (GSH), University of Bern, Switzerland English in paradise?: Emergent varieties in Micronesia (Co-authored research event Poster) (Bürki, D., Kuske, E., Leonhardt, T., Lynch, S., & Mettler, L.) New Ways of Analyzing Variation in Asia-Pacific (NWAV-AP 4), National Chung Cheng University, Taiwan Don’t Put Your ‘and on the Hoven: A variationist study of /h/ insertion and /h/ dropping in Kosraean English. (Conference Poster) (Lynch, S.) Guest lecture at Leiden University Centre for Linguistics Colloquium, University of Leiden, the Netherlands English in Paradise?: Challenges, opportunities and early results from work on New Englishes in Micronesia (Co-authored colloquiuim presentation) (Britain, D., Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., Lynch, S., Matsumoto, K., & Mettler, L.) 8th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC 2016), University of Malaga, Spain English in las Islas de los Garbanzos: Developing a multi-locality corpus of Micronesian Englishes (Co-authored conference presentation) (Britain, D., Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., Lynch, S., Matsumoto, K., & Mettler, L.) Peripheral Dialects II (Workshop), University of Bern, Switzerland Workshop organisation and moderation (Britain, D., Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) America on the horizon: Evidence of the effect of freedom of movement on variety formation in Kosrae. (Workshop presentation) (Lynch, S.) Language in Contact, University of Paris 4, France Mobility as a motivating factor for language change in Kosrae. (Conference presentation) (Lynch, S.). Micronesia Tea Break, University of Bern, Switzerland Organisation and moderation (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Research trip account (Departmental presentation) (Lynch, S.) Peripheral Dialects (Workshop), University of Bern, Switzerland Workshop organisation and moderation (Britain, D., Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) A descriptive and sociolinguistic study of English in Kosrae. (Workshop presentation) (Lynch, S.) 21st Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE 2015), Bogazici University, Istanbul English as spoken in Kosrae, Federated States of Micronesia. (Presentation) (Lynch, S.) Conducting sociolinguistic research on Englishes near and far (CUSO Workshop), Switzerland Research finding on Sorry in Irish English. (Presentation) (Lynch, S.) |
