Rebekka Haerter is a teaching and research assistant at the chair of Prof. Dr. Daniel Schreier, Professor of English Linguistics.

She is currently working on her dissertation project on language attitudes and linguistic identity of English and/or Afrikaans first langauge speakers in South Africa. Her interest lies in the formation, maintenance and defence of (linguistic) identity in post-apartheid South Africa, with particular focus on how language plays a pivotal part in such identity formations. 

As part of the Chair of English Sociolinguistics, Rebekka also contributes to the Language Attitudes in the Swiss Anglophone Diaspora project (LASAD), which is currently investigating language attitudes of South Africans living in Switzerland.

She obtained her M.A. degree in English Literature and English Linguistics and History at the University of Zurich.

• Sociolinguistics
• Language variation and change
• Language attitudes
• World Englishes, in particular South African English(es)
• Language and identity
• Postcolonial linguistics