October 2022

Dear SLICE friends

There has not been much SLICE-activity to write about for some time. My archive tells me that the last issue of SLICE News was sent out January 30, 2020.

A main reason has of course been the arrival of Covid 19 shortly after. And I guess we cannot say it’s over yet. I hope you all are doing well.

In spite of the recent difficult times, colleagues in Austria and other German-speaking countries have been able to produce a nice volume 4 in our SLICE series at Novus Press. The volume can be purchased in a print edition, but is also available in open access Standard Languages in Germanic-Speaking Europe: Attitudes and Perception | Novus forlag. I reproduce the Contents and list of Contributors below.

I am also happy to be able to announce that the whole SLICE series (including the three first volumes) now has been made available in open access from Novus: Standard Language Ideology in Contemporary Europe | Novus forlag (as it has long been from LANCHART’s home page: The SLICE Project – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)

Contents [SLICE vol. 4]

Alexandra N. Lenz, Barbara Soukup and Wolfgang Koppensteiner
Introduction: Standard languages in Germanic-speaking Europe – Attitudes
and perception. Page 9

Alexandra N. Lenz, Barbara Soukup and Wolfgang Koppensteiner
Standard German in Austria from the folk perspective:
Conceptualizations, attitudes, perceptions. Page 23

Elisabeth Buchner, Eva Fuchs and Stephan Elspaß
Standard and non-standard varieties in Austrian schools:
The perspectives of teachers and students. Page 59

Regula Schmidlin
Standard variation and linguistic attitudes in German-speaking Switzerland:
From the etic to the emic perspective. Page 97

Albrecht Plewnia
Measuring attitudes towards standard German and German dialects:
Results of recent representative survey data from Germany. Page 121

Anne-Sophie Ghyselen
Attitudinal and perceptual research as part of the methodological toolbox to
define standard languages:
Advances, issues and perspectives in research on Belgian Dutch. Page 151

Chris Montgomery
Perceptions of non-standardness in an assumed ‘Standard’ English variety. Page 189

Nicolai Pharao
Understanding standard language:
A psycholinguistic look at Danish regional and casual speech variation. Page 217

Contributors

  • Elisabeth Buchner, PhD candidate, University of Salzburg, Austria.
  • Stephan Elspaß, Full Professor, University of Salzburg, Austria.
  • Eva Fuchs, PhD candidate, University of Salzburg, Austria.
  • Anne-Sophie Ghyselen, Post-Doctoral Researcher, Ghent University, Belgium.
  • Wolfgang Koppensteiner, PhD candidate, University of Vienna, Austria.
  • Alexandra N. Lenz, Full Professor, University of Vienna, Austria. Director of the Austrian Centre for Digital Humanities and Cultural Heritage, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Austria.
  • Chris Montgomery, Senior Lecturer, University of Sheffield, UK.
  • Nicolai Pharao, Associate Professor, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
  • Albrecht Plewnia, Director of the Research Programme ‘Language in the Public Arena’, Leibnitz Institute for the German Language (IDS), Mannheim, Germany.
  • Regula Schmidlin, Full Professor, University of Fribourg, Switzerland.
  • Barbara Soukup, Assistant Professor, University of Vienna, Austria.

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In addition, I would like to direct your attention to a couple of highly SLICE relevant articles by Peter Auer, which will be uploaded to LANCHART’s home page (I have Peter’s permission):

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.

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.

Let me also mention that some of the ‘experimentalists‘ among us have been involved in producing a Special issue of Linguistic Vanguard on “Implicitness and Experimental Methods in Language Variation Research”
Linguistics Vanguard Volume 5 Issue s1 - Special Issue: Implicitness and Experimental Methods in Language Variation Research / Issue Editors: Laura Rosseel and Stefan Grondelaers (degruyter.com)

Implicitness and experimental methods in language variation research
Laura Rosseel, Stefan Grondelaers

Implicitness, automaticity, and consciousness in language attitudes research. Are they related and how do we characterize them?
Andrew Pantos

Reflections on the relation between direct/indirect methods and explicit/implicit attitudes. Nicolai Pharao, Tore Kristiansen

How “deep” is Dynamism? Revisiting the evaluation of Moroccan-flavored Netherlandic Dutch
Stefan Grondelaers, Paul van Gent

The relational responding task (RRT): a novel approach to measuring social meaning of language variation
Laura Rosseel, Dirk Speelman, Dirk Geeraerts

How to trick respondents into revealing implicit attitudes – talk to them
Dennis R. Preston

The role of context in sociolinguistic perception
Katherine Hilton, Sunwoo Jeong

The relationship between implicit and explicit attitudes to British accents in enhancing the persuasiveness of children’s oral health campaigns
Zoe Adams
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Best wishes from Copenhagen
Tore
The SLICE Project – University of Copenhagen (ku.dk)