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Dominique B. Hess (Bürki) studied English, Business Administration and Mathematics at the University of Bern (Switzerland). In 2013, she completed her M.A. in English Languages and Literatures with special focus in Linguistics and continued as an assistant in Modern English Linguistics at the University of Bern. In 2016, she also completed her teacher training at the PHBern for Sekundarstufe II. Her main research interests are sociolinguistics, studies of contact languages, post-colonial Englishes, grammatical variation and change in English dialects, corpus linguistics, second language acquisition, English as a Lingua Franca as well as language planning and policy. In 2015, she started working as a PhD student at the University of Bern, on a project focusing on the history, development and structure of Saipanese English in Micronesia. She formally completed the PhD Project in 2019. Currently, she is working as a research assistant at the Center for the Study of Language and Society (CSLS) at the University of Bern and at the PHBern, Sekundarstufe II.
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TEACHING
English Department CSLS University of Bern Switzerland |
AS 2021: Wo bleiben meine Daten? Vom nachhaltigen Umgang mit digitalen Daten am Beispiel des Jugendsprache-Bern-Korpus (in collaboration with Prof. Dr. Tobias Mathias Hodel, Christa Schneider, Ursula Loosli, Gero Schreier, Anna Magdalena Linder) (BA Seminar, Digital Humanities, University of Bern)
AS 2020: Doing Statistical Analysis in Linguistics (Guest lecture) in "Doing Dialect Data Analysis" (BA Seminar for Dr. Hannah Hedegard and Prof. David Britain, English Department, University of Bern) AS 2020: A Sociolinguistic Variationist Island Project: Saipan in the CNMI (Guest lecture) in "Analyzing English in the Pacific: Sociolinguistic Research on the Island of Guam" (BA Seminar for Dr. Eva Kuske, CSLS, University of Bern) AS 2019: Language Variation and Ethnic Identity in Saipanese Speakers (Guest lecture) in "Language in North America" (BA Seminar for Dr. Anja Thiel, English Department, University of Bern) SS 2019: Language Policy and Practice within a Watermanufacturing Company in Saipan (Guest lecture) in "Multilingualism across different global contexts" (MA Seminar for Dr. Kellie Gonçalves, CSLS, University of Bern) AS 2018: Future tense in Saipanese English (Guest lecture) in "Modern English Grammar in Action" (BA Seminar for Hannah Hedegard) AS 2017: Fieldwork in Saipan (Guest lecture) in "Fieldwork Methods in Sociolinguistic Dialectology" (MA Seminar for Prof. David Britain) SS 2017: Sociolinguistic Research in Guam and Saipan (Guest lecture with Eva Kuske) in "A Sociolinguistics of Islands" (BA Seminar for Hannah Hedegard) SS 2016: Introduction to Rbrul (Guest lecture with Tobias Leonhardt) in "'I’m like, it’s all about the local dialect and that / U när I so, es geit ume Dialäkt hie u so’" (MA Seminar for Christa Schneider) AS 2015: Englishes of the Pacific (BA Seminar with Tobias Leonhardt and Sara Lynch) AS 2014: Language Policy, Practice and Ideology: A Focus on English in Switzerland (BA Seminar with Melanie Fanger) AS 2014: Statistics for Linguists (BA and MA Workshop with Tobias Leonhardt) SS 2014: Grammatical Variation and Change: British and American English (BA Seminar with Melanie Fanger) SS 2014: English as a Lingua Franca: A Language in Contact (BA Seminar) AS 2012 / AS 2013: Introduction to Linguistics (BA Tutorial) SS 2013: Phonetics and Phonology (Independent Studies Workshop with Tobias Leonhardt and Dorothee Weber) |
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PRESENTATIONS
May 2021 April 2021 December 2018 October 2018 January 2018 October 2017 August 2017 June 2017 June 2017 May 2017 May 2017 April 2017 March 2017 March 2017 March 2017 December 2016 November 2016 September 2016 August 2016 June 2016 June 2016 June 2016 May 2016 May 2016 April 2016 April 2016 April 2016 March 2016 March 2016 November 2015 October 2015 October 2015 June/July 2015 March 2015 March 2015 |
International Conference on Youth Languages, Manchester Metropolitan University, England "Azzig Aute”: Marking social identity in the Bernese youth language variety of Swiss German focusing on lexis (Presentation) (Hess, D. B., Linder, A., Schneider, C., Hodel, T. & Britain, D.) Forschung zum Schweizerdeutschen, University of Bern, Switzerland "I ghörä vou derzuä" - Jugendsprache in Bern (Presentation) (Hess, D. B., Linder, A., Schneider, C., Hodel, T., Britain, D. & Wälchli, L.). Language, dialect and periphery, University of Bern, Switzerland The quotative system in Saipanese English: Contrasting profiles of be like and zero (Presentation) Days of Swiss Linguistics 2018, University of Bern, Switzerland The emergence of Saipanese English in Micronesia: A variationist sociolinguistic analysis (Presentation) Walter Benjamin Kolleg (WBK): Beiratssitzung, University of Bern, Switzerland The Sociolinguistics of Micronesian Islands (Presentation) (Hess, D. B., Kuske, E., Leonhardt, T., Lynch, S., & Mettler, L.) Statistical standards for scientific discovery in linguistics (Workshop), University of Zurich, Switzerland From palm trees and coconuts to inference trees and other tough nuts to crack: Doing statistics with linguistic data from Micronesian islands (Presentation) (Hess, D., & Leonhardt, T.) Methods in Dialectology XVI, University of Tokyo, Japan Challenges in a variationist sociolinguistic analysis of a newly emerging contact variety of English (Poster) Pacific Englishes II (Workshop), University of Bern, Switzerland Quotative system in Saipanese English (Presentation) International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE9), University of Malaga, Spain Quotatives in Saipanese English: Be like on the move (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.) Approaches to Migration, Language and Identity, University of Lausanne, Switzerland Migration and language policies leading to the emergence of English as an L1 in Saipan? (Presentation) Santiago-Leuven-Edinburgh seminar on Grammatical Variation and Change in English (Workshop), KU Leuven, Belgium Grammatical variation and change in Saipanese English: Future tense patterns (Presentation) Language, Mobility and Belonging (LMB 2017), University of Oxford, England The impact of language policies and global movement in Saipan: English as an L1 on the merge (Presentation) 4th Conference on Language Contact in Times of Globalization (LCTG 4), University of Greifswald, Germany The dynamics of language contact in Micronesia (Presentation) (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Studies of Paradise: Where language meets culture in the Pacific, University of Bern, Switzerland Conference organisation and moderation (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) English as the new L1 in Saipan? The impact of language policies and globalization (Presentation) Bilingual Workshop in Variationist Sociolinguistics, University of Bern, Switzerland Introducing Rbrul, a statistics tool for linguists: Two case studies (Poster) (Bürki, D., & Leonhardt, T.) New Ways of Analyzing Variation (NWAV 45), Simon Fraser University and University of Victoria, Canada Spreading roots? Variation patterns of the future tense in Saipanese English (Poster) Big data bad data (CUSO Workshop), University of Lausanne, Switzerland Micronesian Data Mining: Searching for Sense in the South Seas (Presentation) (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Phonetics Laboratory, University of Cambridge, England Sounds of the South Seas: Insights into three acoustic variables (Talk) (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Pacific Englishes (Workshop), Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies (FRIAS), Germany Grammatical features of Saipan English (Presentation) Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, University of Murcia, Spain A case study of the future tense in Saipan: Ethnicity as a window on the emergence of a new Pacific English variety (Presentation) Sociolinguistics Symposium 21, University of Murcia, Spain Kiribati, Kosrae and Saipan: Effects of Mobility on Micronesian Englishes (Presentation) (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Forschungskolloquium Berner Linguistik / Research colloquium Bernese linguistics (BeLing), University of Bern, Switzerland Mobility Effects on Micronesian Englishes (Presentation) (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) English Department Retreat, Kiental, Switzerland Kiribati, Kosrae and Saipan: Sociolinguistic overview of Micronesian Englishes (Presentation) (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) 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.) Probabilistic variation across dialects and varieties (Workshop), KU Leuven, Belgium Future tense variation patterns in Saipanese English and L1 varieties (Presentation) 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 (Talk) (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.) Peripheral Dialects II (Workshop), University of Bern, Switzerland Workshop organisation and moderation (Britain, D., Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Effects of social factors on the use of the future tense in Saipanese English (Presentation) Micronesia Tea Break, University of Bern, Switzerland Organisation and moderation (Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) Saipan: The true story (Presentation) Peripheral Dialects (Workshop), University of Bern, Switzerland Workshop organisation and moderation (Britain, D., Bürki, D., Leonhardt, T., & Lynch, S.) A sociolinguistic overview of English in Saipan (Presentation) 21st Conference of the International Association for World Englishes (IAWE 2015), Bogazici University, Istanbul Socio-historical and political influences on the use of English in Saipan (Poster) History Research Workshop, Northern Marianas College, CNMI The Micronesian Englishes project (Presentation) Conducting sociolinguistic research on Englishes near and far (CUSO Workshop), Switzerland Workshop organisation and moderation (Bürki, D., & Leonhardt, T.) The history, development and structure of Saipanese English in Micronesia (Presentation) Forschungskolloquium Berner Linguistik / Research colloquium Bernese linguistics (BeLing), University of Bern, Switzerland English in paradise?: Emergent varieties in Micronesia (Presentation) (Bürki, D., & Leonhardt, T.) |
