Romance colloquium
The Romance Studies Colloquium (RK) is a discussion and research platform that deals with selected current topics in Romance studies in German-speaking countries . It emerged when Romance Philology became such a large subject that the traditional large conferences reached their limits.
The first RK was founded in the winter semester 1984/1985 by Wolfgang Dahmen , Günter Holtus , Johannes Kramer and Michael Metzeltin . “Since the planning was based on four Romanists who were active at four different universities (...), it was decided to offer a lecture every four weeks at each of these universities, so that an event on the general topic would take place every week, just each one Time in a different place. (...) There were four events at each individual university. The colloquium now offered the students the opportunity to experience first hand opinions and approaches that differ from what the local linguists do. "
Otto Winkelmann ( Eichstätt , now Gießen ) joined the team for RK V and Wolfgang Schweickard (Saarbrücken) joined the team for RK VIII .
In 2014, a new phase began based on the gradual expansion of the RK team. The founding team is gradually leaving the organization of the colloquia and the publication of the corresponding volumes of files to younger Romance scholars and supports them in an advisory capacity. Christina Ossenkop (Münster) joined the team with the RK XXIX, which took place in Münster . At the subsequent conferences RK XXX (2015), RK XXXI (2016), RK XXXII (2017) and RK XXXIII (2018), the RK team Claudia Polzin-Haumann (Saarbrücken), Elton Prifti (Vienna), Lidia Becker (Hanover ), Anja Overbeck (Berlin) and Julia Kuhn (Jena).
The editors of the Romance Studies Colloquium are Lidia Becker (Hanover), Julia Kuhn (Jena), Christina Ossenkop (Münster), Claudia Polzin-Haumann (Saarbrücken) and Elton Prifti (Vienna).
A report is published for each conference. Topics were (with year of publication):
- I (1987) Latin and Romansh
- II (1989) Technical language and technolects in Romania
- III (1991) The Romance Languages and the Churches
- IV (1991) On the history of the grammars of Romance languages
- V (1991) On the status of the codification of small Romance languages
- VI (1992) Germanic and Romansh in Belgium and Luxembourg
- VII (1993) French in German-speaking countries
- VIII (1995) Convergence and Divergence in Romance Languages
- IX (1996) The importance of the Romance languages in the Europe of the future
- X (1997) Language and Gender in Romania
- XI (1998) Newer methods of describing the syntax of Romance languages
- XII (2006) Lexical Language Contact in Southeast Europe
- XIII (2000) Writing in Another Language: On the Internationality of Romance Languages and Literatures
- XIV (2000) Canon formation in Romance studies and related disciplines
- XV (2001) “Usage Grammar” and “Scholarly Grammar”. French language teaching and grammarography between the Meuse and the Rhine from the 16th to the 19th century
- XVI (2004) Romance Studies and New Media
- XVII (2006) Lengua, historia e identidad: perspectiva española e hispanoamericana
- XVIII (2005) English and Romansh
- XIX (2006) Historical press language
- XX (2006) What can comparative Romance linguistics (still) achieve today?
- XXI (2009) Romance Linguistics and Subject Didactics
- XXII (2008) On the importance of onomatology for Romance studies
- XXIII (2011) Romance Studies and Applied Linguistics
- XXIV (2011) The Romance Languages as Languages of Science
- XXV (2012) Southeast European Romania: Settlement / Migration History and Language Typology
- XXVI (2012) America Romana
- XXVII (2016) Romance Small Languages Today
- XXVIII (2015) On the Lexicography of Romance Languages
- XXIX (2017) Language comparison and translation: The Romance languages in contrast to German
- XXX (2017) Language advice and language criticism in Romania
- XXXI (in preparation) History of foreign language studies in Romania
- XXXII (in preparation) Expertise in Romance studies
- XXXIII (in preparation) Romance studies and economics
Web links
- Romance colloquium at romanistik.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Wolfgang Dahmen, Günter Holtus, Johannes Kramer, Michael Metzeltin, Wolfgang Schweickard, Otto Winkelmann (eds.): What can a comparative Romance linguistics (still) achieve today? Romance Colloquium XX. Tübingen, Narr 2006, p. VII. ISBN 3-8233-6213-5 .