Gipper, Dr. Sonja

Sonja Gipper studied Latin American Anthropology at the University of Bonn. From 2006 to 2011 she participated in a language documentation project of Yurakaré, an endangered language spoken in Central Bolivia, hosted at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen. Gipper is currently employed as a lecturer at the Linguistics Department, University of Cologne. Her main fields of interest are language documentation, South American languages, cross-cultural pragmatics, and language use in social interaction.