Dear SLICE friends

As the large majority of you live on this side of the globe and should be enjoying summer these days, I am happy to have no SLICE activities to report for July.

Even more happy, though, to be able to welcome Jonathan Kasstan to our SLICE network. See more below.

All the best from a very hot Copenhagen

(this summer seems to be hotter the further north on the globe you live)

Tore

https://lanchart.hum.ku.dk/research/slice/

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My name is Jonathan Kasstan, and I am a completing doctoral candidate at the University of Kent, where I work on variation and change in Francoprovençal - one of the lesser known regional minority languages spoken in France, Switzerland, and Italy. I have been working on Francoprovençal varieties spoken in France since 2009, and I recently extended my research to Switzerland in 2012. I am very much interested in the larger questions posed by the network in the standard language culture context, and I feel that I could make a strong contribution to SLICE. While Francoprovençal as an obsolescent language faces many problems similar to those of other minority varieties spoken in France and elsewhere, it is characterised too by its unique standing in the Romance literature [...] I note, moreover, from your website that your network is currently under-represented in France. If it helps, I am due to begin a teaching post at Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle in September, where I will be better placed to continue my research on Francoprovençal.

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