@article{Kailich2022, author = {Kailich, Franziska}, title = {The Introduction of English-induced neologisms in Spanish tweets: a case-study on covidiota}, series = {Frontiers in Communication}, volume = {7}, journal = {Frontiers in Communication}, issn = {2297-900X}, doi = {10.3389/fcomm.2022.780340}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-274064}, year = {2022}, abstract = {This paper intends to trace the introduction of an English-induced, COVID-related neologism, covidiota, into the Spanish language. The study is based on a corpus of tweets, starting in March 2020. It examines several specific features which mark the word as a new, unfamiliar item, such as different ways of graphical highlighting, for example. On the other hand, the paper aims to detect possible indicators of an integration of covidiota into the Spanish language use in the tweet corpus compiled for this case study.}, language = {en} } @incollection{Maniruzzaman2022, author = {Maniruzzaman, Md.}, title = {Blended Learning in the New Normal: EFL Student and Teacher Perceptions and Reactions}, series = {Studies in Modern English}, booktitle = {Studies in Modern English}, editor = {Lazebna, Nataliia and Kumar, Dinesh}, publisher = {W{\"u}rzburg University Press}, address = {W{\"u}rzburg}, doi = {10.25972/WUP-978-3-95826-199-0-81}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-296508}, publisher = {W{\"u}rzburg University Press}, pages = {81-104}, year = {2022}, abstract = {To reopen educational institutions and return to the classroom, we all need to modify how we act to successfully face the challenges of the new normal resulting from the COVID-19 pandemic and entailing our insights into and the after-effects of the pandemic. More specifically, the new normal might encompass online education we are getting used to during the pandemic and the age-old onsite education as well. Thoughtfully integrated, online and onsite learning combine to create blended learning. However, the pertinent literature reveals that English as a foreign language (EFL) students and teachers differently perceive and react to blended learning in diverse contexts. This study was designed to explore student and teacher perceptions of and reactions to blended learning in the Department of English, Jahangirnagar University in the new normal. Fifty undergraduates of EFL and eight teachers of the department participated in the study. To collect data from them, the Student Questionnaire and the Teacher Questionnaire were used. And the data were processed by applying the SPSS programme module. The findings revealed that the majority of the students and the teachers had mostly positive perceptions of blended learning, although the former did not have sufficient exposure to online learning and the latter lacked adequate insights into online teaching. Further, both the students and the teachers expressed mostly positive reactions to blended learning in the new normal, though the former deemed online examinations inadequately smooth and reliable, and the latter had insufficient experience of online instruction and assessment. The study categorically recommends reforming the curriculum, adopting relevant instructional strategies, developing suitable materials, customizing the assessment, integrating and installing technology, training the teachers, upskilling the students for blended learning, improving the infrastructure, and adjusting the management.}, language = {en} } @misc{OPUS4-32981, title = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik. Band 8 (2022)}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {8/2022}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, editor = {Bobineau, Julien and Dembruk, Sofina and Eibensteiner, Lukas and Goldmann, Julius and Hesselbach, Robert and Koch, Christian and Ravasio, Paola}, isbn = {978-3-946101-08-6}, issn = {2364-6705}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329813}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Die Zeitschrift promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik erscheint einmal j{\"a}hrlich und wird durch den gemeinn{\"u}tzigen Verein promptus e.V. herausgegeben. Sie richtet sich an alle Nachwuchswissenschaftler im Bereich der romanistischen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft sowie der Fachdidaktik und bietet diesen die M{\"o}glichkeit, in einem fr{\"u}hen Stadium ihrer akademischen Laufbahn qualitativ hochwertige Arbeiten zu publizieren. Zudem versteht sich die Zeitschrift als Impulsgeber f{\"u}r junge romanistische Forschung, ohne sich dabei thematisch zu beschr{\"a}nken.}, language = {de} } @article{Schneider2022, author = {Schneider, Melanie}, title = {« [C]'est absurde d'{\^e}tre bloqu{\´e} sur une autoroute » - Das Motiv des Staus in der zeitgen{\"o}ssischen romanischen Literatur}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {8}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2364-6705}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329807}, pages = {165-180}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Due to an ever-increasing number of automobiles on the roads, automobility fails more and more to fulfil its promise of free individual mobility, leading to traffic density and congestions of unprecedented proportions. However, those conditions seem to possess an aesthetic potential which we seek to analyze in terms of literature. Therefore, we are going to look on three novels from Romance-language areas: Julio Cort{\´a}zar's short story La autopista del sur (1966), Carlo Lucarelli's novel Autosole (1998) and Gr{\´e}goire Gauchet's novel Les robinsons de l'autoroute (2018). First, we will analyze the nature of deceleration/congestion by referring to human geographer Tim Cresswell's concept of friction. Second, we will examine recurring motifs linked to the deceleration/congestion in all novels before taking a closer look at Gauchet's novel where the friction not only applies to traffic but also to human relationships. The aim is to look at different literary representations of an everyday experience like traffic congestion and to see how literature deals with such an occurrence.}, language = {de} } @article{AyalaCarrilloFarfanCardenasNielsenetal.2022, author = {Ayala-Carrillo, Mariana and Farf{\´a}n, Michelle and C{\´a}rdenas-Nielsen, Anah{\´i} and Lemoine-Rodr{\´i}guez, Richard}, title = {Are wildfires in the wildland-urban interface increasing temperatures? A land surface temperature assessment in a semi-arid Mexican city}, series = {Land}, volume = {11}, journal = {Land}, number = {12}, issn = {2073-445X}, doi = {10.3390/land11122105}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-297308}, year = {2022}, abstract = {High rates of land conversion due to urbanization are causing fragmented and dispersed spatial patterns in the wildland-urban interface (WUI) worldwide. The occurrence of anthropogenic fires in the WUI represents an important environmental and social issue, threatening not only vegetated areas but also periurban inhabitants, as is the case in many Latin American cities. However, research has not focused on the dynamics of the local climate in the WUI. This study analyzes whether wildfires contribute to the increase in land surface temperature (LST) in the WUI of the metropolitan area of the city of Guanajuato (MACG), a semi-arid Mexican city. We estimated the pre- and post-fire LST for 2018-2021. Spatial clusters of high LST were detected using hot spot analysis and examined using ANOVA and Tukey's post-hoc statistical tests to assess whether LST is related to the spatial distribution of wildfires during our study period. Our results indicate that the areas where the wildfires occurred, and their surroundings, show higher LST. This has negative implications for the local ecosystem and human population, which lacks adequate infrastructure and services to cope with the effects of rising temperatures. This is the first study assessing the increase in LST caused by wildfires in a WUI zone in Mexico.}, language = {en} } @article{Brinkmann2022, author = {Brinkmann, Lisa Marie}, title = {Zum Sprachkontakt Maya und Spanisch: Empirische Studien zur kontaktinduzierten Grammatikalisierung im Maya}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {8}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2364-6705}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329734}, pages = {15-35}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The aim of this article is to document the outcomes of language contact between Yucatecan Maya and Mexican Spanish. In order to do so, two theories are applied to newly assembled data, gathered during a field study in 2019 in YucaThe aim of this article is to document the outcomes of language contact between Yucatecan Maya and Mexican Spanish. In order to do so, two theories are applied to newly assembled data, gathered during a field study in 2019 in Yucat{\´a}n: The Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2011) and Heine/Kuteva's contact-induced grammaticalization (2003). The village Xoc{\´e}n in which the field study was conducted is characterized by monolingualism in Maya as well as bilingualism in Spanish and Maya. Data was collected to investigate the influence of Spanish on Mayan morphology, especially on the use of the subjunctive. I propose that the data can best be explained by combining the Interface Hypothesis with Heine/Kutevas's (2003) approach.t{\´a}n: The Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2011) and Heine/Kuteva's cThe aim of this article is to document the outcomes of language contact between Yucatecan Maya and Mexican Spanish. In order to do so, two theories are applied to newly assembled data, gathered during a field study in 2019 in Yucat{\´a}n: The Interface Hypothesis (Sorace 2011) and Heine/Kuteva's contact-induced grammaticalization (2003). The village Xoc{\´e}n in which the field study was conducted is characterized by monolingualism in Maya as well as bilingualism in Spanish and Maya. Data was collected to investigate the influence of Spanish on Mayan morphology, especially on the use of the subjunctive. I propose that the data can best be explained by combining the Interface Hypothesis with Heine/Kutevas's (2003) approach.ontact-induced grammaticalization (2003). The village Xoc{\´e}n in which the field study was conducted is characterized by monolingualism in Maya as well as bilingualism in Spanish and Maya. Data was collected to investigate the influence of Spanish on Mayan morphology, especially on the use of the subjunctive. I propose that the data can best be explained by combining the Interface Hypothesis with Heine/Kutevas's (2003) approach.}, language = {de} } @article{Cristalli2022, author = {Cristalli, Marco Antonio}, title = {Ein Mann ohne Ehrgeiz, Konturen und Tatendrang - Parodierung von M{\"a}nnlichkeitsnormen in Jean-Philippe Toussaints Monsieur (1986)}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {8}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2364-6705}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329747}, pages = {37-60}, year = {2022}, abstract = {The nameless protagonist of the postmodern novel Monsieur, written by Belgian author Jean-Philippe Toussaint, can be described as a rather strange man. He lacks ambition, a drive for action and seems to be unfit for daily life. He constantly fails to accomplish his predestined role as a real man, as for instance to pay the bill for dinner when dating a woman. The scope of the present paper is to analyse, on the one hand, how this novel deconstructs hegemonial concepts of masculinity but, on the other hand, is in itself also a parody of the latter.}, language = {de} } @article{Kreiner2022, author = {Kreiner, Lea}, title = {Das Genus im Sprachvergleich: Genuszuweisung bei substantivischen Lehnw{\"o}rtern im Deutschen und Spanischen}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {8}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2364-6705}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329784}, pages = {123-143}, year = {2022}, abstract = {This article examines principles of gender assignment in the German and Spanish language and in this way tries to answer the question of why loanwords are preferably assigned a particular gender and what criteria motivate this choice. After introducing some general aspects about gender as well as some important properties of the German and Spanish gender systems, this paper compares several formal (morphological and phonological) and semantic rules regarding gender assignment. Despite large structural differences between the languages, the comparison shows that the assignment rules prove to be in a sense cross-lingual, which do not only testify to the assumption but also the validity of an underlying system of rules.}, language = {de} } @article{Harjus2022, author = {Harjus, Jannis}, title = {El aliento xeneize: Eine diskurslinguistische Analyse von Fanges{\"a}ngen der Anh{\"a}nger des argentinischen Clubs Boca Juniors}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {8}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2364-6705}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329768}, pages = {85-103}, year = {2022}, abstract = {In this contribution, chants of the followers of the Argentine football team Boca Juniors are analyzed with regard to possible identity constructions and othering. The results of the corpus-driven discourse-linguistic analysis demonstrate in particular metaphors and topoi that can be highlighted as a constitutive part of the discursive construction of a Boca Juniors supporters' identity and the otherings of River Plate hinchas. Through the use of certain metaphors and determined lexical fields that clearly call for acts of violence, a masculine ethos is discursively constructed among Bocas own followers, which goes far beyond comparable insulting and cheering chants of comparable European football teams.}, language = {de} } @article{Haidacher2022, author = {Haidacher, Bernhard}, title = {The concept of confix in German, French, and Italian - a comparative study}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {8}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2364-6705}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-329756}, pages = {63-83}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Despite some critical voices, in German linguistics the concept of confix can meanwhile be considered as an established morpheme category. Schmidt (1987) introduced the term into German to describe bound morphemes that are lexical, but not inflectable. Since the 2000s, an increasing number of publications deal with the phenomenon and the term has begun to enter linguistic reference works as well. In French, the situation is completely different due to the structure of the language (poor in compounds and mostly post-determinative). Although the term and the concept have originall y been coined by the French structuralist Andr{\´e} Martinet ([1961] \(^3\)1980 ), the denomination itself is barely present in Romance linguistics. French researchers usually take different approaches to discuss the phenomenon (e.g., neoclassical compounds, constructed lexemes). In Italian, the denominations confisso/ confissazione are first used by De Mauro (1999), who adopts both the term and concept directly from Martinet; moreover, they can be found in some contributions on word formation and lexicology (e.g., Adamo/Della Valle 2008). Nevertheless, the Italian termino-logy remains heterogeneous, with some researchers still using the terms prefissoide/suffissoide coined by Migliorini (1963). As I will show by comparing the languages in question, the terminology and the concept of confixes vary greatly between Romance and Germanic languages.}, language = {en} }