Dear SLICE friends

Edit Bugge (Bergen) sends this good news about SLICE-related studies of language attitudes on the Faeroe Islands.

Best wishes from Copenhagen

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

From Edit Bugge: 
The Faroese project Dialect change in the Faroe Islands (project manager: Jógvan í Lon Jacobsen) has now collected the material for a new sociolinguistic corpus of spoken Faroese, and has completed a verbal guise test in test locations across the country. The results from the verbal guise test from the Faroe Islands was published online in Journal of Sociolinguistics this month (author: Edit Bugge), and will be included in the next printed issue. A Faroese version is to appear in the next issue of Fróðskaparrit (authored by Edit Bugge and Jógvan í Lon Jacobsen).

The test used is a replica of the verbal guise test method that was used in Western Norway, which again was adapted from the test design developed by Tore Kristiansen. The test includes a verbal guise test to elicit reactions to five regional varieties of Faroese and two different label ranking task to elicit statements on language variation. 203 Faroese 15‐year‐old students participated (this was about one third of the 15 year olds in the country at the time). The results from the label ranking task indicate a common notion of a national Faroese dialect hierarchy that favors that of the capital. However, the reaction patterns in the verbal guise test reflect no such hierarchy. The Faroese results thus diverge from the evaluation patterns found in a number of comparable European verbal guise tests, yet are similar to the patterns found in one European test locality: Western Norway.

Those who have access to JOSL can read the text by using the DOI below:

https://doi.org/10.1111/josl.12283

If you wish to read it, but do not have access, you can contact Edit for a pdf: Edit.Bugge@hvl.no