End of February 2019
Dear SLICE friends
As many of you will know, Christoph Hare Svenstrup has conducted a ‘SLICE experimental’ type investigation as his PhD project in the Stuttgart area (see his contribution to SLICE volume II).
I am happy to be able to announce that…
Christoph Hare Svenstrup will defend his PhD dissertation at the University of Copenhagen on March 15 at 13:00.
In Denmark, the PhD defence is a public event that takes place in the presence of an audience. So in case you are or would like to be, in Copenhagen on March 15, you are very welcome to attend.
Title of the dissertation:
“…weil die Zukunft in Hochdeutsch liegt…” (“…because Hochdeutsch is the future…”)
Language attitudes amongst adolescents from the Stuttgart area
Abstract
The present standard-dialect situation in the Stuttgart area is the object of differing opinions amongst German dialectologists. Some regard it to be a situation of vital dialects developing alongside but independently of the German spoken standard. Others consider it to be a situation of an advanced standardisation resulting in the disappearance of the dialects in favour of spoken standard German. This study is about ordinary adolescents’ lay perspective on this dialect-standard situation – about their attitudes to the local dialect (Swabian) and to speak standard German (Hochdeutsch). The investigation of the adolescent’s conscious and subconscious language attitudes, as well as of their metalinguistic constructions of Swabian and Hochdeutsch, show how they position themselves in the social ideological processes underlying their language use and the dialect-standard situation of the area.
Assessment Committee
- Associate Professor Nicolai Pharao, chair (University of Copenhagen)
- Professor David Britain (Universität Bern)
- Associate Professor Loreta Vaicekauskienė (Vilnius University)
Moderator of the defence
- Professor emeritus Frans Gregersen (University of Copenhagen)
Copies of the thesis will be available for consultation at the following three places
- At the Information Desk of the Library of the Faculty of Humanities
- In Reading Room East of the Royal Library (the Black Diamond)
- At the Department of Nordic Studies and Linguistics (NorS), Emil Holms Kanal 2
The above information can also be found here
Best wishes
Tore