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The Romance languages offer a particularly fertile ground for the exploration of the relationship between language and society in different social contexts and communities. Focusing on a wide range of Romance languages – from national languages to minoritised varieties – this volume explores questions concerning linguistic diversity and multilingualism, language contact, medium and genre, variation and change. It will interest researchers and policy-makers alike.
We acknowledge the initiation and support of this Research Topic by the International Union of Immunological Societies (IUIS). We hereby state publicly that the IUIS has had no editorial input in articles included in this Research Topic, thus ensuring that all aspects of this Research Topic are evaluated objectively, unbiased by any specific policy or opinion of the IUIS. Part of the APCs for articles in this collection were financed by the Fondazione Beppe e Nuccy Angiolini ONLUS. Publisher’s note: In this 2nd edition, acknowledgment for the Fondazione Beppe e Nuccy Angiolini ONLUS has been added.
This volume provides the first comprehensive reference work in English on the French language in all its facets. It offers a wide-ranging approach to the rich, varied, and exciting research across multiple subfields, with seven broad thematic sections covering the structures of French; the history of French; axes of variation; French around the world; French in contact with other languages; second language acquisition; and French in literature, culture, arts, and the media. Each chapter presents the state of the art and directs readers to canonical studies and essential works, while also exploring cutting-edge research and outlining future directions. The Oxford Handbook of the French Langua...
This volume brings together the latest findings from research on multilingual language learning and use in multilingual communities. Suzanne Flynn, Håkan Ringbom and Larissa Aronin are some of the prestigious scholars who have contributed to this book. As argued by this last author in her chapter, although multilingualism has always existed, the important changes that research on this phenomenon has recently undergone, like that of adopting a multilingual perspective in its studies, should always be borne in mind. This volume considers the languages of multilingual communities, as well as the interaction among them. As such, the chapters adopt a multilingual approach that guides the analysi...
Is the world en route to becoming a linguistic colony of the United States? Or is this dramatic view an exaggeration, and there is no danger to linguistic diversity at all? The German language is at the center of an intensive debate on this issue. Its position in the world is under increasing pressure due to the growing importance of (American) English as the language of globalization. The articles in this volume deal with the national and international position of German in relation to English, language policies, the future of German as a language of science, German in the USA, and the intellectual and aesthetic dimensions of encountering a foreign language. They present critical assessments addressing the dangers for the future of languages other than English, as well as positions which perceive the growing importance of English as a challenge and resource rather than as a threat.
In Marco Polo was in China Hans Ulrich Vogel undertakes a thorough study of Yuan currencies, salts and revenues, by comparing Marco Polo manuscripts with Chinese sources and thus offering new evidence for the Venetian’s stay in Khubilai Khan’s empire.
This volume connects the latest research on language acquisition across the lifespan with the explanation of language change in specific sociohistorical settings. This conversation benefits from recent advances in two areas: on the one hand, the study of how learners of various ages and in various sociolinguistic contexts acquire language variation; on the other, historical sociolinguistics as the field that focuses on the study of historical patterns of language variation and change. The overarching rationale for this interdisciplinary dialogue is that all forms of language change start and spread as the result of individual acts of acquisition throughout the speakers’ lives. The thirteen...
Der zweisprachige Band, der aus einem internationalen Kolloquium in der Villa Vigoni hervorgeht, rückt vor dem Hintergrund aktueller politischer, gesellschaftlicher und ökonomischer Wandelprozesse, die Europa herausfordern, Italien ins Blickfeld. Fokussiert werden folglich in einer europäischen Dimension zentrale Kristallisationspunkte ebenso wie Herausforderungen und Handlungsfelder, die für die Vermittlung aktueller, differenzierter und damit zukunftsfähiger Italienbilder in der deutschsprachigen Bildung fruchtbar gemacht werden können. Damit soll ein Beitrag zur Stärkung des italienisch-deutschen Dialogs im europäischen Kontext und auch der zunehmend gefährdeten deutschsprachigen...
Aufsätze: GUNTER BURGER (Kempen) Die Verwendung intralingualer Untertitel beim Einsatz audiovisueller Medien: Hindernis oder Hilfe für den Fremdsprachenerwerb? LIDIA DE PAZ MARTINEZ (Mainz) Zur modernen Sprachpflege in Spanien: Lehnwortdiskussion in Stilbüchern der spanischen Presse DOMENICA ELISA CICALA (Klagenfurt) Primo approccio alla letteratura italiana. I parchi letterari: il colle di Recanati. Proposta didattica su L'infinito di Leopardi LAURA CAMPANALE (Trier) Fehleranalyse bei einer Gruppe italienischer Jugendlicher im Ausbildungsprogramm BiPRO JOHANNES KRAMER (Trier) Gibt es leichte und schwere Schulsprachen? Überlegungen zum Englischen, Spanischen, Italienischen und Französischen SYLVIA THIELE (Münster) Literatur im Fremdsprachenunterricht - Vorschläge für die Vorbereitung auf das Praxissemester Rezensionen zu linguistischen und didaktischen Publikationen Zeitschriftenschau: Neues zur Didaktik der Romanischen Sprachen Profil: Prof. Dr. Dagmar Abendroth-Timmer (Siegen) Lehrveranstaltungen: Didaktik der Romanischen Sprachen (WS 09/10)