@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{Augustin2015, author = {Augustin, Jenny}, title = {?'Diversa, democr{\´a}tica y moderna? La imagen transmitida de la Real Academia Espa{\~n}ola en el discurso actual. Una mirada panor{\´a}mica}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {1}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-139449}, pages = {29-57}, year = {2015}, abstract = {In 2013, three hundred years had passed since the foundation of the Real Academia Espa{\~n}ola (RAE). The celebrations accompanying this anniversary were extended across the year and came to a closure with the publication of the 23rd edition of the Diccionario de la lengua espa{\~n}ola in 2014. Spanish media followed the above-mentioned festivities with a detailed coverage. The purpose of this article is to study the image of the RAE conveyed through the media and the Internet, which can be subsumed under the three terms 'diverse, democratic and modern'. This form of representation is put into a broader context by considering the linguistic politics pursued by the RAE and the Asociaci{\´o}n de Academias de la Lengua Espa{\~n}ola (ASALE) under the keyword of panhispanism. Finally, a closer look is taken at El buen uso del espa{\~n}ol, a student manual published by the RAE and the ASALE in 2013, in relation to panhispanism and prescriptivism.}, subject = {Real Academia Espa{\~n}ola}, language = {es} } @article{Henk2021, author = {Henk, Lars Thorben}, title = {«We're on the road to nowhere» - Felwine Sarrs narrativer Weg in die Afrotopie}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {7}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2364-6705}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-305662}, pages = {73-90}, year = {2021}, abstract = {According to the Senegalesian scholar Felwine Sarr who conceives an African utopia in his programmatic essay Afrotopia (2016), this Afrotopos has already germinated in contemporary African literature. However, it still needs to be enquired to what extent the narrated topos of the street in Sarr's own anthology 105 Rue Carnot (2011) has already realized the Afrotopos. In order to respond to this question, we would like to mobilise Michel Foucault's concept of heterotopia, which elaborates on the interactions between truth production/knowledge, power and space, and permits us to conceive of «les lieux utopiques» (Foucault 2005: 40) as actually locatable on the map and real other places outside of all places (cf. Foucault 1994: 755). Thus, in the street, a different relationship between global North and South is founded, which becomes legible as an African «utopie localis{\´e}e» (Foucault 2005: 41) that Sarr calls for in Afrotopia (2016).}, language = {de} } @article{IsselDombertWiedersLoheac2016, author = {Issel-Dombert, Sandra and Wieders-Loh{\´e}ac, Aline}, title = {«Nous multiplierons les chansons, les concerts, les spectacles». L'argumentation de Fran{\c{c}}ois Hollande face aux attaques terroristes du 13 novembre}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {2}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2510-2613}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-161637}, pages = {123-151}, year = {2016}, abstract = {After the terrorist attacks on November 13th, the French public, the whole of Europe and many parts of the world were waiting for president Fran{\c{c}}ois Hollande to address his fellow "citoyens". Being the most important political figure - both by constitution and by influence on public discourse - the president's words bear great importance for the subsequent debate and interpretation of the events. Therefore, the question arises: How did the president shape the debate in the hours and days after the attacks? To answer this question, we have identified typical structures in Hollande's rhetorical reaction to the attacks, performing a topos as well as a keyword analysis of the speeches the president held within two weeks after November 13th. In a contrastive analysis we have compared Hollande's speeches to the Europarl Corpus. Using the software programme sketch engine, we have filtered out the 100 most frequent keywords and classified them into semantic fields (data-driven approach). All in all, terrorism, action and nation/identity are the three predominant semantic fields, whereas references to victimhood barely appear. These findings are congruent with the results of our topos analysis that reveals a predominance of argumentative structures that form a strong main topos of resilience, emphasising the greatness of France and its people and culture, calling to action and avoiding any tendencies of resignation.}, subject = {Hollande, Fran{\c{c}}ois}, language = {fr} } @article{Hettmann2015, author = {Hettmann, Sandra}, title = {«Explotan las im{\´a}genes y un altoparlante con su lengua». Surrealistische Dis/Kontinuit{\"a}ten bei Luciana Romano: Bebilderungen im Gedichtraum durch Foto{\"a}sthetik und Dynamiken des Wortbildes}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {1}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2510-2613}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-139473}, pages = {113-142}, year = {2015}, abstract = {This article seeks to analyse the volume of poems Vapor de foto (2006) written by the young contemporary poet Luciana Romano from Buenos Aires. Romano is also an activist of the politically engaged artist collective Etc{\´e}tera… founded in the late nineties. Her poetry reveals a certain correlation with the aesthetics of the actions and interventions developed by Etc{\´e}tera… in the streets and public spaces not only of Argentina but also of Europe. Furthermore, the creation of Vapor de foto is based on the collective's experiences and practices. Using a methodological approach that combines close reading and a cultural and socio-critical focus, several poems will be exemplarily analysed in order to examine the interrelation between Romano's style of writing and her activism. Assuming that her poetry, as well as the work of Etc{\´e}tera…, belongs to a postdictatorial contemporary aesthetics characterized by the complex interplay between dadaistic and surrealistic dis/continuities, this article will focus on the analysis of different forms of relations between text and image.}, language = {de} } @article{Hennemann2017, author = {Hennemann, Anja}, title = {«ainda {\´e} nova a m{\´u}sica, i think» Zur Code-Alternation in portugiesischen online-Diskursen}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {3}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2510-2613}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-172882}, pages = {107-125}, year = {2017}, abstract = {The present paper is concerned with the use of English cognitive verbs like think, mean and guess as well as with fixed expressions that contain these verbs like guess what (?) or think about it in Portuguese online discourses. In the qualitative analysis of examples retrieved from the Corpus do Portugu{\^e}s (Web/Dialects) I mainly focus on the syntactic behavior of the expressions under survey, also comparing their use and function in the English language. In the final part of the paper I reflect about possible reasons of the employment of English elements in Portuguese conversation.}, 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{Sorrenti2015, author = {Sorrenti, Elisa}, title = {Zweitspracherwerb und Interlanguage. Eine empirische Untersuchung zur deutschen Wortstellung bei L1-Italienisch-Sprechern mit L2-Deutsch}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {1}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2510-2613}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-139498}, pages = {163-191}, year = {2015}, abstract = {Much research on first language (L1) acquisition carried out in the last decades has proven that language acquisition is based on a biological endowment, the language faculty, which is triggered by the exposure to linguistic data. The language acquisition process undergoes similar stages in the same time span, independently of the specific language. Non-native acquisition differs from L1 acquisition, as the speaker already has an internal grammar with all parameters set. Transfer should therefore take place, bringing the learner to analyse the new input according to the properties of the L1, but a reanalysis is possible because of the availability of UG (Schwartz/Sprouse 1996). This article explores a syntactic domain, namely the properties of the functional categories constraining the verb position in main and subordinate clauses, by means of empirical data from Italian L1-speakers acquiring German as a second language (L2). It will be shown that the interlanguage grammars reflect properties of L1 and that resetting can be achieved, although optionality still exists and full convergence to the target language cannot be guaranteed.}, language = {de} } @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{Woersdoerfer2015, author = {W{\"o}rsd{\"o}rfer, Anna Isabell}, title = {Vom 'bon sauvage' zum franz{\"o}sischen Ritter par excellence. Die 'Mati{\`e}re de Bretagne' als Streitobjekt konkurrierender Erinnerungskulturen in Jean-Pierre Claris de Florians Mittelalternovelle Bliomb{\´e}ris (1784).}, series = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, volume = {1}, journal = {promptus - W{\"u}rzburger Beitr{\"a}ge zur Romanistik}, issn = {2510-2613}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-139518}, pages = {229-251}, year = {2015}, abstract = {While French Enlightenment seems philosophically dominated by a pejorative idea of the medieval past as the 'Dark Ages', this is only one conception among others. This article focuses on a different, a positive, representation of the Middle Ages in eighteenth-century literature, analyzing the chivalric novella Bliomb{\´e}ris (1784) by Jean-Pierre Claris de Florian. On the one hand, the eponymous hero is considered a 'noble savage' who develops into an ideal knight by education and successful learning - two central ideas of the Enlightenment period. On the other hand, the study shows how the medieval topic of the Mati{\`e}re de Bretagne, exclusively required by English literature for a long time, is finally regained by the French and is reintegrated into their national memory.}, language = {de} }