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"Pardon my French": Why English is so different from its West Germanic sisters (The French in English)- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Hans-Ingo Radatz
- Angaben
- Vorlesung
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS, Unterrichtssprache Deutsch
Zeit und Ort: Di 14:00 - 16:00, U5/01.22
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Modules:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
- Aufbaumodul Sprachwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
- Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft Variante 2 (= für 2. Hauptfach, d.h. Hauptfach ohne BA-Arbeit) (2 ECTS)
MA English and American Studies (Regular & European Joint Master's Programme):
- Mastermodule English Linguistics (2 ECTS)
- Profile Module English Linguistics (2 ECTS)
- Consolidation Module English Linguistics (2 ECTS)
- Restricted Electives English Linguistics (2 ECTS)
Lehramt Gym: Vertiefungsmodul Sprachwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
MSc Wirtschaftspädagogik, Studienrichtung II: Aufbaumodul Englische Sprachwissenschaft (2 ECTS)
2. Registration and Deregistration:
Registration via FlexNow from 25 March 2024, 10:00h, to 18 April 2024, 23:59h.
Deregistration via FlexNow from 25 March 2024, 10:00, to 30 April 2024, 23:59h.
3. Requirements for successful completion of the course:
2 ECTS in all modules for degree-seeking students of the University of Bamberg: regular attendance
- Inhalt
- English is universally characterised as a "West Germanic" language without further qualifications - without any mention of a Romance influence, putting it in the same category as the other West Germanic languages German and Dutch. But a short glance at the 40 content words in the British national anthem shows that 17 of them (= 42.5 %) are etymologically French. This is not the case in the other West Germanic languages: in the German anthem there are none and, in the Dutch, four. Why should this be so?
- Under the Norman dynasty, French became the official language in England and remained in that position for at least two centuries;
- most kings from the Shakespearean dramas never spoke a word in English in real life,
- the English parliament used French until the very end of the Middle Ages;
- in English courts of law, French continued to be used until its abolition in 1731.
- A modern analysis of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) showed that 62,33% of all English words in the OED were of French or Latin origin, while only 25% are Germanic (c.f. Finkenstaedt/Wolff 1973).
- In 1977, Bailey and Maroldt published their much debated theory that Middle English was in fact a Romance-Germanic (semi-)creole, in which the original Gemanic structure of Anglo-Saxon had been so deeply altered by the French contact language that the result warranted the classification as a new language.
In this course we will look into the historical facts of this intense language contact, the actual linguistic loans and convergence phenomena, and we will critically evaluate the modern debates on the degree of French influence on English. That much can already be revealed beforehand: French influence is certainly much greater than common anglistic knowledge would have it.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Bailey, Charles James N./Maroldt, Karl (1977), The French Lineage of English, in: Meisel,Jürgen (ed.): Langues en Contact/Languages in Contact, Tübingen, Narr, 21–53.
Finkenstaedt, Thomas/Wolff, Dieter (1973), Ordered Profusion, Studies in Dictionaries and the English Lexicon, Heidelberg, C. Winter.
Radatz, Hans-Ingo (to appear): "Romance English", in: Hoinkes, Ulrich / Müller-Lancé, Johannes /Schöntag, Roger (eds.): MRL - Manual of Romance Linguistics: Historical Contact in Romance, Berlin: de Gruyter.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- "Pardon my French": Why English is so different from its West Germanic sisters (The French in English)
- Credits: 2
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Sprachwissenschaft einschließlich Sprachgeschichte
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