January 2017

Dear SLICE friends

It is my pleasure to be able to begin 2017 by trumping fake news with SLICE News from our good colleagues in the Lowlands (see below).

Best wishes to all of us for the rest of the year and the years to come.

Votre vieux rédacteur à Copenhague,

Tore

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

(De)standardization in Europe − qualitative and quantitative approaches (Thematic issue of Taal & Tongval)

In December a thematic issue of ‘Taal & Tongval’ was published on the theme ‘(De)standardization in Europe − qualitative and quantitative approaches’. This issue represents the material outcome of the Taal & Tongval colloquium held in Ghent in November 2014. The issue is edited by Chloé Lybaert, Steven Delarue, Anne-Sophie Ghyselen and Jacques Van Keymeulen. Taal & Tongval is published in Open Access, and this thematic issue will be available soon on http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/aup/tet. It contains the following chapters:

Studying standard language dynamics in Europe: Advances, issues & perspectives
ANNE-SOPHIE GHYSELEN, STEVEN DELARUE AND CHLOÉ LYBAERT 

Contemporary Standard Language Change: Weakening or Strengthening?
TORE KRISTIANSEN 

Destandardization is not destandardization: Revising standardness criteria in order to revisit standard language typologies in the Low Countries
STEFAN GRONDELAERS, ROELAND VAN HOUT AND PAUL VAN GENT 

Doing ‘speaking the (non-)standard’ in the media: Methodological implications of a ‘third wave’ or ‘Speaker Design’ approach illustrated in an Austrian case study
BARBARA SOUKUP 

Standardizing and destandardizing practices at a Flemish secondary school. A sociolinguistic ethnographic perspective on Flemish pupils’ speech practices
INGE VAN LANCKER 

Vlaamse gebarentaligen en standaard Vlaamse Gebarentaal: Verstoten of omarmen?
MIEKE VAN HERREWEGHE EN EVA VANDEMEULEBROUCKE

Kind regards,

Chloé Lybaert