Open AccessKritische Bemerkungen zur Lage der Romanistik im Zeichen von ›English only‹
Author(s) -
Hans Goebl
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
zagreber germanistische beiträge
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1849-1766
pISSN - 1330-0946
DOI - 10.17234/zgb.28.6
Subject(s) - compromise , sympathy , multilingualism , humanities , sociology , political science , philosophy , social science , pedagogy , psychology , social psychology
The 180-year old discipline of Romance Studies hinges upon the broadest possible multilingualism of those who undertake it. This means that every researcher working in the field of Romance Studies must have comprehensive knowledge of a wide array of Romanic languages, alongside with a basic sympathy towards the Romanic countries, languages and cultures. All of this has been fundamentally questioned in the past 30 years by the spreading misconception that even in the humanities it is only the use of English that guarantees the quality of research and scientific publications. This article tackles this issue on the example of the author’s biography and analyzes some distinctive ›case studies‹ without reaching a compromise.