The Routledge Handbook of Eurolinguistics

The Routledge Handbook of Eurolinguistics provides a comprehensive survey of the typical features among European languages in cultural, geographical, or political definitions. Bringing together the latest research in the field, the handbook showcases European traditions of linguistic research on European languages. Featuring 30 chapters written by leading experts of European languages and linguistics, this book: - illustrates the major theoretical and methodological developments and institutionalizations of the field - presents typical features for the various linguistic levels of European languages (standard and non-standard)-formally and semantically - analyzes aspects of writing, phonological aspects, grammatical aspects, lexical aspects, language use, and multimodal aspects, including contributions on body language and sign languages; and - investigates typical commonalities with respect to various historical and current social issues with chapters on traditions of translation, multilingual settings in Europe, teaching foreign languages, and language policies The Routledge Handbook of Eurolinguistics is essential reading for those with an interest in European languages and linguistics, language contact and change, and language typology.

Joachim Grzega is Associate Professor for Linguistics at the University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (Germany) and head of the project unit Innovative European Sprachlehre (InES) at Volkshochschule Donauwörth (Germany). He was also Director of Europäisches Haus Pappenheim (Germany), the first institution to combine Eurolinguistic research with offers for a broad public. He has authored over 200 publications, has organized several international Eurolinguistics conferences, and is the editor of the Journal for EuroLinguistiX.

List of Figures and Tables Preface and Acknowledgements List of Contributors Part I Introduction 1 Basic Definitions of Eurolinguistics Joachim Grzega 2 Major Developments and Perspectives of Eurolinguistics Joachim Grzega and Uwe Hinrichs Part II Aspects of Language Systems 3 Eurowriting (I): The World of Writing in Antiquity Harald Haarmann 4 Eurowriting (II): Developments beyond Antiquity Harald Haarmann 5 Phonological Europeanisms Pavel Iosad and Dmitry Nikolaev 6 Morphosyntactic Europeanisms Rolf Thieroff 7 Commonalities of Non-Standard Varieties in Europe Adriano Murelli 8 Genealogy, Linguistic Distance and Mutual Intelligibility in European Languages Vincent J. van Heuven, Wilbert Heeringa and Charlotte Gooskens 9 Lexical Europeanisms Harald Haarmann and Joachim Grzega 10 Semantic Europeanisms Adam Glaz and Stanislawa Niebrzegowska-Bartminska 11 Onomasiological Europeanisms Joachim Grzega 12 European Eponyms Joachim Grzega and Wolfgang Pöckl 13 Phraseological Europeanisms Carmen Mellado Blanco Part III Aspects of Language in Use and Multimodal Aspects 14 European Commonalities in Addressing Behaviour-Present and Past Joachim Grzega 15 Europeanisms among Speech Acts: Focus on Requests Claudia Stoian 16 Discourses in Europe: Commonalities and Differences Hans W. Giessen and Iwona Szwed 17 European Aspects of the Body in Language and Communication Jana Bressem 18 A Cross-Linguistic Look at European Signed Languages: Focus on Stance-Taking Fien Andries and Myriam Vermeerbergen 19 European Commonalities of Relations between Voice and Emotion Annebeth Demaeght, Josef Nerb and Andrea Müller Part IV Language and Societal Issues in European Nations 20 Commonalities among Language Policies in Europe-Past and Present Rosa Calafat and Laia Darder 21 Linguistic Pluricentricity in European Standard Language Cultures Josep Àngel Mas Castells and Carla Amorós-Negre 22 Commonalities of (Post-)Colonial Varieties of European Languages (Dutch, English, French, Portuguese, Spanish) Bettina Migge, Hugo Cardoso, Joseph Farquharson, Philipp Krämer and Eeva Sippola 23 Practice of Subjective Meta­linguistic Reflection in European Com­parison Katharina Jacob and Ekkehard Felder 24 Aspects of Linguistic Landscapes in Europe Katharina Tyran 25 European Commonalities in Linguistic Integration Policies Coraline Pradeau 26 European Commonalities of Translation Strategies-A Diachronic Sketch Jörn Albrecht, Irene Kunert and Joachim Grzega 27 Language Policies of the European Union and the Role of Translating (and Interpreting) for Communication Karin Luttermann and Jan Engberg 28 European Commonalities in Teaching and Learning Languages: Focus on Multi- and Plurilingualism Claudia Polzin-Haumann and Christina Reissner 29 European Planned Auxiliary Languages Ida Stria 30 Lingua Francas in the European Context-Past, Present, and Future Harald Haarmann and Joachim Grzega Index