@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} } @article{Nabi2022, author = {Nabi, Haifaa}, title = {La Naus{\´e}e : Salut par l'art ou par les autres ?}, 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-329799}, pages = {145-163}, year = {2022}, abstract = {In this article dedicated to Jean-Paul Sartre's first novel La Naus{\´e}e, we analyze how the idea of conversion to art grows in the imagination of the hero, Antoine Roquentin. Furthermore we show that all the narrative actions in the novel are based on the hero's communicational interaction with the other characters. This lonely person who complains in his diary about social exclusion, yet he converts to art not through his reflections, but through communica-ting with the other characters. Also, many critical studies on La Naus{\´e}e have considered jazz music that the hero listens to in a caf{\´e} as the critical moment of his conversion. In our opinion this reflects juste one phase of a connected sequence of events through which the hero passes from a state of relational negativity and existential alienation to a state of openness, achieved again mainly by the virtue of other characters.}, language = {fr} } @article{Henk2022, author = {Henk, Lars Thorben}, title = {{\´E}douard Louis' «J'accuse». Ein sp{\"a}tmoderner Adept Zolas?}, 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-329777}, pages = {105-120}, year = {2022}, abstract = {French history of literature is undoubtedly characterized by a tradition of social criticism portraying the working class' misery that can be traced back at least to the 19th century. Among these depictions, Zola's novels have a prominent position. This is, among other aspects, due to their pretended scientific foundation and their pretentious claims to be scientific studies. The contemporary author {\´E}douard Louis situates himself in this tradition of Zola's naturalism. This invites us to examine the interrelation between Zola and Louis more closely. Based on the common ground of scientific foundation, scientific ambition and social commitment pursued in their novels, it will be demonstrated that Louis is a late-modern Zola whose milieu and character descriptions follow in detail Zola's constructions.}, language = {de} } @article{Vatter2022, author = {Vatter, Christoph}, title = {Interview mit Prof. Dr. Christoph Vatter}, 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-305703}, pages = {1-13}, year = {2022}, abstract = {Interview mit Prof. Dr. Christoph Vatter}, 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{SenaratneMuehlbauerKiefletal.2023, author = {Senaratne, Hansi and M{\"u}hlbauer, Martin and Kiefl, Ralph and C{\´a}rdenas, Andrea and Prathapan, Lallu and Riedlinger, Torsten and Biewer, Carolin and Taubenb{\"o}ck, Hannes}, title = {The Unseen — an investigative analysis of thematic and spatial coverage of news on the ongoing refugee crisis in West Africa}, series = {ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information}, volume = {12}, journal = {ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information}, number = {4}, issn = {2220-9964}, doi = {10.3390/ijgi12040175}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-313607}, year = {2023}, abstract = {The fastest growing regional crisis is happening in West Africa today, with over 8 million people considered persons of concern. A culmination of identity politics, climate-driven disasters, and extreme poverty has led to this humanitarian crisis in the region and is exacerbated by a lack of political will and misplaced media attention. The current state of the art does not present sufficient investigations of the thematic and spatial coverage of news media of this crisis in this region. This paper studies the spatial coverage of this crisis as reported in the media, and the themes associated with those locations, based on a curated dataset. For the time frame 12 March to 15 September 2021, 2017 news articles related to the refugee crisis in West Africa were examined and manually coded based on (1) the geographical locations mentioned in each article; (2) the themes found in the articles in reference to a location (e.g., Relocation of people in Abuja). The dataset introduces a thematic dimension, as never achieved before, to the conflict-ridden areas in West Africa. A comparative analysis with UNHCR (United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees) data showed that 96.8\% of refugee-related locations in West Africa were not covered by news during the considered time frame. Contrastingly, 80.4\% of locations mentioned in the news do not appear in the UNHCR repository. Most news articles published during this time frame reported on Development aid or Political statements. Linear multiple regression analysis showed GDP per capita and political stability to be among the most influential determinants of news coverage.}, language = {en} }