Dear SLICE friends

As I am sure you have all noticed and regretted, SLICE News took the liberty of a two months’ summer break this year. … Few news to report about, actually.

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However, towards the end of September and the deadline for submissions for SS 21 in Murcia next June (http://www.um.es/sociolinguistics-symposium21), votre vieux rédacteur received information that quite a number of SLICE members were involved in writing colloquia proposals. Notification of acceptance is scheduled for January 2016, and SLICE News hope to be able at that time to forward good news about many interesting colloquia at SS 21 – a conference which, featuring ‘Attitudes and Prestige’ as its thematic orientation, promises to be a generally interesting event for Slicers.

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Another event at the end of September might be worth mentioning for those of you who are aware that SLICE was born as a LANCHART baby. During its first 10 years, this baby was cared for by the Danish  National Research Foundation. From now on, into its adolescence and beyond, LANCHART will continue to exist and grow as an embedded center at Copenhagen University (with Marie Maegaard as new director; she replaces Frans Gregersen). This milestone was celebrated by a seminar in Copenhagen on September 30, where a large number of SLICE members were present (some of them as speakers on the program, reproduced below).

 

A book which presents the main LANCHART achievements for the general Danish public was launched at the closing reception. Those of you who read Danish may want to learn that you can find information about how to buy or download the book at this address: https://nfi.ku.dk/publikationer/nyeboeger/hvad-ved-vi-nu/

 

Best regards from Copenhagen

Tore

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

 

Celebrating ten years of research on language change in real time
- on the occasion of the embedding of the LANCHART Centre at the University of Copenhagen

Wednesday 30th September 2015
Venue:
The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters (Videnskabernes Selskab)
H.C. Andersens Boulevard 35, 1553 København V

08.30-09.00

Coffee/tea

09.00-09.10

Bolette Sandford Pedersen, University of Copenhagen:

Welcome

09.10-09.40

Frans Gregersen, University of Copenhagen:

Introduction to the LANCHART project

Charting language change - a few preliminary steps with special reference to intra-individual variation

09.40-10.10

Jane Stuart-Smith, University of Glasgow:

Using big-data techniques to tackle real-time change: The voicing contrast across 100 years of real- and apparent-time in Glaswegian

10.10-10.40

Sali Tagliamonte, University of Toronto:

Sociolinguistics, history and landscape in the study of language change

10.40-11.10

Coffee/tea

11.10-11.40

Tanya Karoli Christensen & Torben Juel Jensen, University of Copenhagen:

Functional and social meaning in grammatical variation and change

11.40-12.10

Sirpa Leppänen*, Janus Spindler Møller, Andreas Stæhr & Thomas Rørbeck Nørreby, University of Jyväskylä*, University of Copenhagen:

Authenticity, Normativity and Social Media

12.10-12.40

Stef Grondelaers, Radboud University:

Yes, we can ... use Twitter data to investigate the linguistic and the social meaning determinants of morpho-syntactic change

Y12.40-13.40

Lunch

13.40-14.10

Dennis Preston, Oklahoma State University:

A quadrangulation of attitudinal study: Qualitative-Quantitative-Conscious- Nonconscious

14.10-14.40

Tore Kristiansen, Marie Maegaard & Nicolai Pharao, University of Copenhagen:

Experimental studies in language perception and evaluation

14.40-15.10

Unn Røyneland, University of Oslo:

Dialects and migration –  entitlement, authenticity and local belonging

15.10-15.40

Coffee/tea

15.40-16.10

Martha Sif Karrebæk & Lian Malai Madsen, University of Copenhagen:

Everyday languaging among children and youth

16.10-16.40

Leonie Cornips: Meertens Institute & University of Maastricht

The linguistic construction of the province of Limburg: language ideology and language practices

16.40-17.10

Helge Sandøy, University of Bergen:

What’s the opposite of Denmark?

17.10-17.20

Marie Maegaard, University of Copenhagen:

Closing remarks and prospects for future work at the LANCHART Centre

17.20-18.30

Reception and book launch

Frans Gregersen & Tore Kristiansen (eds.): Hvad ved vi nu – om danske talesprog? (What do we know now - about spoken Danish?)