Beginning of September 2019
Recent publications
Auer, Peter. 2017. The neo-standard of Italy and elsewhere in Europe.
In M. Cerruti, C. Crocco & S. Marzo (eds.). Towards a New Standard. Theoretical and Empirical Studies on the Restandardization of Italian. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter, pp. 365–74.
Auer, Peter. 2018. The German neo-standard in a Europa context.
In G. Stickel (ed.). National language institutions and national languages. Contributions to the EFNIL Conference 2017 in Mannheim. Budapest: Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences., pp. 37–56.
http://www.efnil.org/documents/conference-publications/mannheim-2017/EFNIL-Mannheim-10-Auer.pdf
Linguistics Vanguard. Volume 5, Issue s1 (May 2019)
Special Issue: Implicitness and Experimental Methods in Language Variation Research / Issue Editors: Laura Rosseel and Stefan Grondelaers
https://www.degruyter.com/view/j/lingvan.2019.5.issue-s1/issue-files/lingvan.2019.5.issue-s1.xml
Vaicekauskiene, Loreta. 2019. Driving Forces behind Language Change. Does Danish Theory Hold up in Lithuania?
http://www.journals.vu.lt/scandinavistica/article/view/12868
Seminar on contemporary processes of language (de-)standardisation in Europe will take place under the auspices of the Copenhagen Linguistics Circle on December 6, 2019
The scientific background for the seminar, which is entitled What makes a standard language? Changing evaluations across Europe, is the work that has been accomplished within the SLICE network, and the question which the seminar will raise is whether the social-psychological mechanisms at work under the contemporary socio-historical conditions of late-modernity produce a conception of the ‘norm-and-variation’ issue which differs from the one which was produced under the conditions of modernity.
In the invitation to the seminar it is explained that the SLICE research program aims to investigate this question empirically, partly by analyzing evaluative data collected from young people in experimental set ups (paying attention to a possible existence of different implicit and explicit evaluations), partly by analyzing the use and evaluation of language norm-and-variation in the new public sector which develops after WWII based on the spoken media (radio and TV). It is furthermore explained that a particular interest in these analyses has been to determine whether the language-related evaluative dimensions are undergoing change, and that some of our research shows indications that the traditionally well-established evaluative distinction between ‘status/competence’ and ‘solidarity/sociability’ as positive associations related to ‘standard’ vs. ‘non-standard’ ways of speaking is being replaced by an evaluative distinction between a ‘dynamic’ way of speaking (more positively associated with the spoken media) and a ‘superior’ way of speaking (more positively associated with the traditional public sectors of education and business life).
The seminar will discuss these SLICE issues based on presented evidence from a variety of contexts and perspectives, including the situations in Belgium and The Netherlands (talk by Stef Grondelaers), in England (talk by Robert McKenzie), in Scotland (talk by Jane Stuart-Smith), and in Lithuania (talk by Loreta Vaicekauskiene). As for Denmark, a presentation of our experimental investigations of language attitudes will serve as an introduction to the seminar (by Tore Kristiansen/Nicolai Pharao, as organizers of the event), and the role of the media will be addressed with regard both to radio and TV (by Janus Mortensen/ Nicolai Pharao/Jacob Thøgersen) and the social media (by Lian Madsen/Janus Møller/Andreas Stæhr).
The seminar is open to everyone (you need not be a member of the Linguistics Circle).
Venue: University of Copenhagen, Southern Campus, room 27.0.17 (i.e. building 27, ground floor, room 17).
December 6, 13:00–17:30.