Konstanze Jungbluth - Böcker

Deixis as a field of research has generated increased interest in recent years. It is crucial for a number of different subdisciplines: pragmatics, semantics, cognitive and contrastive linguistics, to name just a few. The subject is of particular interest to experts and students, philosophers, teachers, philologists, and psychologists interested in the study of their language or in comparing linguistic structures.The different deictic structures – not only the items themselves, but also the oppositions between them – reflect the fact that neither the notions of space, time, person nor our use of them are identical cross-culturally. This diversity is not restricted to the difference between languages, but also appears among related dialects and language varieties.This volume will provide an overview of the field, focusing on Romance languages, but also reaching beyond this perspective. Chapters on diachronic developments (language change), comparisons with other (non-)European languages, and on interfaces with neighboring fields of interest are also included.The editors and authors hope that readers, regardless of their familiarity with Romance languages, will gain new insights into deixis in general, and into the similarities and differences among deictic structures used in the languages of the world.

The way speakers in multilingual contexts develop own varieties in their interactions sheds light on code switching and multimodal dynamic co-constructions of grammar in use. This volume explores the intersection of multimodality and language use of multilingual speakers. Firstly, theoretical frames are discussed and empirical studies involving Catalan, German and Spanish as L1, L2 or FL are presented interconnecting verbal and gestural modalities into grammar description or exploring actions as sources for gestures, which may nonverbally represent the argument in German dynamic motion verbs. Other chapters focus on positionings in interviews, lexical access searches or proxemics in greetings and farewells. The contributions secondly focus on verbal features of language use in multilingual contexts related to self-representation and co-construction of identity through code-switching, deixis or argumentative reasoning in different communicative events based on multilingual data of languages including Croatian, English, Italian, Brazilian-Portuguese and Polish. The findings call for a reviewed conception of grammar description with implications also for the conceptualization of deixis, for L2/foreign language acquisition and language teaching policies.

Die Forschungsarbeit stellt die Geschichte der Textsorte des Familienbuchs (livre de raison, libro di famiglia etc.) im europäischen Raum seit dem 16. Jahrhundert bis zum Beginn des 20. Jahrhunderts dar, die den erst später entstandenen Textsorten des Tagebuchs und der Autobiographie vorausgeht. Konkret werden drei katalanische Familienbücher vorgestellt, die repräsentativ für den Typus, die Form und die Überlieferungsbedingungen dieser Art von nähesprachlich geprägter Privatliteratur sind. Die Unterscheidung zwischen Sprechen bzw. Schreiben (universelle Ebene), Sprache (Ebene der Einzelsprache und ihrer Varietäten) und Text (Ebene der Texttraditionen in Europa) wird zugrundegelegt. Eine These, die in der Diskussion mit Sprachwissenschaftlern, aber auch mit Historikern, Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaftlern überprüft und in Bezug zu anderen Quellen gesetzt werden soll, sei hier bereits genannt: Es gibt eine vormoderne, alteuropäische, übereinzelsprachliche Art des Schreibens, die unter oder sogar neben der Produktion hoher Literatur unverändert seit Beginn der Neuzeit bis ins 19. oder sogar bis ins frühe 20. Jahrhundert fortbesteht. Vor allem aber will dieses Beiheft einen Beitrag zur Sprachgeschichte des Katalanischen während der Decadència leisten. Ergänzend wird eine der Quellen, namentlich der Chronikteil (1836-1902) des Familienbuchs von J. Seriñana, in transkribierter Form erstmalig der Wissenschaft zugänglich gemacht. Der deskriptive Teil der Arbeit trägt zu einer näheren Kenntnis der Schrifttradition der katalanischen Sprache bei. Die Affinität der untersuchten Texte zur nähesprachlichen Varietät (mit Koch und Oesterreicher) zeigt sich in besonderer Weise in der Diskussion um das auch in beiordnender Funktion verwendete que. Der Gebrauch ist hier vergleichbar mit Belegen aus dem Gaskognischen und Französischen, wobei die Texte hinsichtlich der Sprachvarietät eng verwandt sind. Die auf den drei Ebenen Sprechen bzw. Schreiben, Sprache und Text gestellten Fragen werden abschließend zu einem Gesamtbild zusammengefügt, dabei wird versucht, die am Anfang gestellten Fragen zu beantworten: Worauf konnte die nachfolgende Epoche der Renaixença aufbauen? Welche bestehenden Schrifttraditionen hat sie ignoriert, weil sie sich vor allem für die hohe Literatur interessierte?

The book series Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, founded by Gustav Gröber in 1905, is among the most renowned publications in Romance Studies. It covers the entire field of Romance linguistics, including the national languages as well as the lesser studied  Romance languages. The editors welcome submissions of high-quality monographs and collected volumes on all areas of linguistic research, on medieval literature and on textual criticism. The publication languages of the series are French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Romanian as well as German and English. Each collected volume should be as uniform as possible in its contents and in the choice of languages.

This volume focuses on the linguistic constructs involved in ethnic borders. Ethnic borders have proven themselves to be surprisingly long-lived: in nearly all European countries and beyond, border demarcation, exclusion of foreigners, and minority conflicts are some of the most persistent challenges for nations and societies. Which linguistic factors play a role in the formation of these borders, especially those drawn along ethnic lines? Which linguistic constructs contribute to the negotiation, establishment and maintenance of ethnic groups and identities? Under which conditions can processes of linguistic convergence, hybrids, or transcultural identities be observed?

In this book, the author introduces belonging from a sociolinguistic perspective as a concept that is accomplished in interaction. Belonging can be expressed linguistically in social, spatial and temporal categories – indexing rootedness, groupness and cohesion. It can also be captured through shared linguistic practices within a group, e.g. collectively shared narrative practices. Using conversation analysis and an analysis of narrative as practice bolstered with ethnographic knowledge, the author shows how belonging is tied to locally contextualized use of deictics and to collectively shared narrations of the past in a Guatemalan community. The book examines the understudied phenomenon of belonging at the intersection of pragmatics and linguistic anthropology.

This book investigates the interaction between complex transformational socio-economic processes, migratory vectors, and the role of ethnic belonging. It outlines the hitherto unexamined determining factors of the mass emigration of the Pontic and Urum Greeks of Georgia. The author addresses the following questions: How, if at all, did ethnic affiliation influence the decision-making process to emigrate? Therefore, should this migration be considered as a "repatriation" process, or should it rather be analyzed in the context of labor migration? The study triangulates qualitative and quantitative analyses of 47 interviews, spatial analysis, as well as materials on Georgia’s and the destination countries’ socioeconomic realities. This enables a clear understanding of the circumstances that stimulate emigration, the routes, and the experience of living abroad.

The Polish language was brought to Brazil by Polish-speaking peasants who came to the New World in the late 19th and early 20th century. Since then, the language has been developing in relative isolation from the European Polish context.In this monograph, the author focuses on a dialect of Polish still spoken in a remote community in the south of Brazil. The dialect’s origins, history, and present character are investigated to portray the language as a result of a multilingual process with a specific starting point. On the basis of the original data recorded in the community, the author establishes a viable baseline for future in-depth studies of linguistic phenomena. She pays special attention to the distinct identity of the speakers, which mirrors the dialect’s distinct character.