The Routledge Handbook of Eurolinguistics

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 edits 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 Głaz and Stanisława Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska

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