SMiLE Revisited

The SMiLE Revisited project provides new analyses of the North Frisian data originally collected as part of the Sustaining Minoritized Languages in Europe (SMiLE) project, examining these data (transcripts of 87 interviews) from new perspectives. The re-analyses focus on three key aspects: (1) the terminology used to refer to North Frisians and their language - a comparison of language community, academics, and policy makers; (2) attitudes towards North Frisian - a corpus-assisted discourse study comparing traditional, new, and non-speakers of this minority language; and (3) perceptions of North Frisian in the linguistic landscape. A report on the original SMiLE project — authored by Femmy Admiral, Lena Terhart, and Nils Langer — can be found here: https://folklife.si.edu/smile/north-frisian The co-investigators for the SMiLE Revisited project are Ruth Kircher (European Centre for Minority Issues), Samantha M. Litty (Europa-Universität Flensburg), and Lena Terhart (Nordfriisk Instituut).