Dear SLICE friends

SLICE News is slowly wakening from hibernation (no issue since the end of October last year!). I hope 2016 so far has smiled upon you and will continue to do so.

Here are some good news:

SLICE 2 on the website

The SLICE 2 volume can now be downloaded from the SLICE website: https://lanchart.hum.ku.dk/research/slice/publications_and_news_letters/, both as a whole file or as individual  chapters.

If you want the book on your own or your library’s bookshelf, it can still be ordered from Novus Press: http://novus.mamutweb.com/Shop/Product/Kristiansen-et-al-(Eds)-Language-(De)standardisation/102644

 New members of the network

Chloé Lybaert chloe.lybaert@ugent.be

Carmen Ebner c.ebner@hum.leidenuniv.nl

Carmen writes:

My PhD project Proper English Usage: a sociolinguistic investigation of usage attitudes in British English is part of a wider research project  Bridging the Unbridgeable: linguists, prescriptivists and the general public supervised by Prof. Ingrid Tieken-Boon van Ostade (Leiden University). In my PhD project, I focus on attitudes towards usage problems, such as the split infinitive, literally, and the dangling participle, in British English. In order to elicit attitudes, I have conducted not only an online questionnaire which generated 230 responses from England only, but also interviews with another 64 participants who participated in an Open-guise test and usage judgement test. Through those tests I was able to obtain unconscious attitudes and to avoid obtaining socially desirable answers from my participants. The aim of my study is to investigate and identify social variables playing a role in the usage debate. In my analysis I will focus mainly on age, gender, education and class. In your previous email you mentioned the Sociolinguistic Symposium in Murcia. I will be presenting some of my findings at this conference and would love to meet fellow Slicers.

Sociolinguistics Symposium 21

Yes, as you will all probably know, SS 21 features a theme which should be of particular interest to us Slicers: Attitudes and Prestige.

The program is not yet available on the symposium website – http://www.um.es/web/sociolinguistics-symposium21/ – but let me mention that the deadline for the cheaper early bird registration is February 29.

Best wishes from Copenhagen

Tore