Die Beitrage behandeln Aspekte sprachlicher Minderheiten im deutsch- und romanischsprachigen Raum, insbesondere in Italien. Im Mittelpunkt stehen sprachhistorische, sprachstrukturelle und sprachpolitische Fragen, auch im Hinblick auf die lebensweltliche Relevanz klein(er)er Sprachen. Nei saggi qui raccolti sono trattati temi relativi a minoranze linguistiche dell'area tedesca e romanza, soprattutto italiana. I lavori si occupano, in particolare, di aspetti concernenti la storia linguistica, le strutture linguistiche e la politica linguistica, dando voce, per altro, a rappresentanti delle stesse comunita di minoranza.

Der Band enthält ausgewählte Beiträge zu den aktuellen sozialen Veränderungsprozessen in Wirtschaft und Gesellschaft. Sowohl die Auswirkungen der technikgetriebenen Interaktion zwischen Mitarbeitenden als auch die neuesten Entwicklungen zwischen Unternehmen und Stakeholdern werden in vielen Untersuchungen analysiert und für die Praxis ausgewertet. So behandelt der Band unterschiedliche Bereiche wie interne und externe Unternehmenskommunikation, Diversität am Arbeitsplatz, soziales Engagement, Sicherheitsdenken, Netzwerkgestaltung, Nachhaltigkeit, Umweltorientierung, Markenführung, PR und Werbung unter den Bedingungen, die seit Ausbruch der Pandemie COVID-19 den Wirtschaftsalltag prägen.

Europe is the name for a scintillating variety of historically emerged concepts, constantly developed and discussed over time. Its complexity and fuzziness is reflected in a multitude of myths, topoi, symbols and boundaries, which all constitute shared knowledge of the concept of EUROPE and which continue to influence attempts to (de- and re-)construct European identity. The case studies collected in this volume investigate the competing concepts of Europe in political and public discourses from a wide range of perspectives (e.g. frame semantics, discourse linguistics, multimodal analysis), focusing on the following aspects: How is EUROPE conceptualised, (re-)negotiated and legitimised by different political actors, political bodies and institutions? How does "the European idea" change throughout history and how is the re-emerging idea of nationality evaluated?

This handbook provides a systematic, up-to-date overview of the Friulian language, both from a synchronic and from a diachronic perspective. Among other things, it presents in-depth discussions of current problems related to regional multilingualism (Friulian beside Italian as dachsprache, Venetian, German, and Slovenian) as well as of linguistic policies and important sociolinguistic aspects (e.g., the standardization of spelling and vocabulary, or the use of Friulian in the (new) media).

The articles in this festschrift for the Romance studies scholar Gerhard Ernst (Regensburg) concentrate on topics that have been a constant preoccupation of his research and teaching throughout his career, notably language varieties, with special reference to Roman urban dialect and the history of language. The volume's major emphasis is on a discussion of Italian, French, and Romanian, both from the diachronic and the synchronic perspective.

This collected volume contains most of the papers delivered to the section on Language Change and Geographical (Dis-)Continuity at the XXIX German Conference of Romance Studies. Interest is focussed on examining the commonalities and differences in the development of different Romance languages and/or dialects, with a consideration of the problems surrounding spatial and temporal continuity and/or discontinuity always being taken as the starting point. At the same time, this allows a weighing up of the relationship between internal and contact-determined language change.