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Laura Mettler studied English and Musicology at the University of Bern (Switzerland) and completed her M.A. in English languages and literatures with special focus on linguistics in 2017. In her M.A. dissertation she investigated the history, development, structure of and attitudes towards English in the Republic of Nauru, Micronesia. Her main research interests include sociolinguistics, language ideologies and attitudes, linguistic anthropology, and cultural studies. She is currently pursuing her teacher diploma at the Pädagogische Hochschule Bern for Sekundarstufe II.
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PRESENTATIONS
January 2018 June 2017 June 2017 May 2017 March 2017 March 2017 June 2016 June 2016 April 2016 April 2016 March 2016 |
Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBK): Beiratssitzung, University of Bern, Switzerland The Sociolinguistics of Micronesian Islands (Hess, D. B., Kuske, E., Leonhardt, T., Lynch, S., & Mettler, L.) ELF & Changing English: 10th Anniversary Conference of English as a Lingua Franca, University of Helsinki, Finland Capitalism and English in the Pacific: The particular case of Nauru (Presentation) International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (iCLaVE 9), University of Malaga, Spain Colonialism, capitalism and consonants: The emergence of Nauruan English (Presentation) Phil.hist. Forschungstag 2017, University of Bern, Switzerland The development of English varieties in Micronesia (Poster) (Hess, D. B., Kuske, E., Leonhardt, T., Lynch, S., & Mettler, L.) Guest lecture at Department of English, Focus Module Seminar: A Sociolinguistics of Islands, University of Bern, Switzerland Paradise lost - The impact of colonialism and capitalism on language: The extraordinary case of Nauruan English (Presentation) Studies of Paradise: Where language meets culture in the Pacific, University of Bern, Switzerland Colonialism, capitalism and cross-cultural communication: The complex case of Nauruan English (Presentation) Pacific Englishes (Workshop), Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Germany English in Nauru: Linguistic characteristics and attitudes (Presentation) Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, University of Murcia, Spain English in Nauru: An initial description (Presentation) Forum Graduate School of the Humanities (GSH), University of Bern, Switzerland English in paradise?: Emergent varieties in Micronesia (Poster) (Bürki, D., Kuske, E., Leonhardt, T., Lynch, S., & Mettler, L.) 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 (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 (Presentation) (Britain, D., Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., Lynch, S., Matsumoto, K., & Mettler, L.) |
