Dear SLICE friends

I have the pleasure of forwarding information (from Edit Bugge, Bergen University) that a SLICE-type language attitudes investigation is currently being conducted on the Faroe Islands, lead by Edit, and organized on the islands  by Jógvan í Lon Jacobsen and Hjalmar P. Petersen.

Eight fieldworkers collected data from some 300 students (15 years old) at seven different schools throughout the whole country (the total Faeroese population amounts to 49.000 people). The stimulus voices used in the Speaker Evaluation Experiment represented the dialects of 1) Tórshavn, 2) Vágar, 3) Eysturoy, 4) Norðuroyggjar, 5) Suðuroy. Each of these dialects was represented by 3 voices, all young women.

Edit writes that they think they succeeded in collecting these SEE data without any of the audiences becoming aware of the purpose of the experiment – meaning that they succeeded in operationalizing the distinction between consciously and subconsciously offered attitudes which is central to the SLICE experimental approach. ... We look forward to hearing more as the results begin to appear!

Thanks to Edit

and best wishes to all from Copenhagen

Tore