Dear SLICE friends

We begin 2014 with two goodies:

SLICE 2 Has been ‘on the street’ for a couple of weeks now. All authors receive a copy free of charge.  I am informed that these copies have been shipped from Oslo, so in case you have not received your author’s copy yet, I trust it will arrive soon. Can be purchased from the Novus website. [Reference and contents information is reproduced below]

SLICE 1 Novus has accepted that we now post SLICE 1 on the SLICE website. You can download a pdf file with the whole book, and pdf files for each of the chapters. Novus reports that there are only a few copies left of the printed version, so in case you want to secure a copy for your own bookshelf, or for a library close to you, it is a good idea to get it done. Can be purchased at Novus.

Best wishes from Copenhagen Tore

SLICE 2. Tore Kristiansen and Stefan Grondelaers (Eds.). 2013. Language (De)standardisation in Late Modern Europe: Experimental Studies. Oslo: Novus.

Contents

Introduction

Stefan Grondelaers and Tore Kristiansen On the need to access deep evaluations when searching for the motor of standard language change, p. 9

Part 1 (De)standardisation studies using Speaker Evaluation Experiments

Christoph Hare Svenstrup Language attitudes in south-west Germany, p. 55

Noel Ó Murchadha Authority and innovation in language variation: Teenagers’ perceptions of variation in spoken Irish, p.71

Loreta Vaicekauskienė and Daiva Aliūkaitė Overt and covert evaluation of language varieties in the Lithuanian speech community, p. 97

Helge Sandøy Driving forces in language change − in the Norwegian perspective, p. 125

Anne-Sophie Ghyselen and Gunther De Vogelaer The impact of dialect loss on the acceptance of Tussentaal: the special case of West-Flanders in Belgium, p. 153

Stefan Grondelaers and Dirk Speelman Can speaker evaluation return private attitudes towards stigmatised varieties? Evidence from emergent standardisation in Belgian Dutch, p.171

Steven Delarue Teachers’ Dutch in Flanders: The last guardians of the standard? p.193

Nataša Tolimir-Hölzl Language attitudes in the Republika Srpska: Eliciting some truth from behind the propaganda, p. 227

Part 2 Methodological concerns and alternative approaches

Barbara Soukup The measurement of ‘language attitudes’ – a reappraisal from a constructionist perspective, p. 251

Barbara Soukup On matching speaker (dis)guises – revisiting a methodological tradition, p. 267

Dennis R. Preston and Nancy Niedzielski Approaches to the study of Language Regard, p. 287

Kathryn Campbell-Kibler Connecting attitudes and language behaviour via implicit sociolinguistic cognition, p. 307

Ari Páll Kristinsson and Amanda Hilmarsson-Dunn Evaluation of different registers in Icelandic written media, p. 331

Tore Kristiansen, Nicolai Pharao and Marie Maegaard Controlled manipulation of intonational difference: An experimental study of intonation patterns as the basis for language-ideological constructs of geographical provenance and linguistic standardness in young Danes, p. 355

Anne Fabricius and Janus Mortensen Language ideology and the notion of construct resources: a case study of modern RP, p. 375

Contents of SLICE volume 1, p. 403