Romanische Forschungen

On 11 February 2013, ANSA journalist Giovanna Chirri listened to the Pope's resignation speech given in Latin. She quickly tweeted he would leave the pontificate from 28 February. The news hit the headlines worldwide, and Chirri was later publicly...

The article examines the spatial structures in Claude Olliers La vie sur Epsilon (1972), which describes the failed exploration of an unknown planet. Epsilon is a barred and uncontrollable space whose emblematic sign is a gigantic labyrinth of...

This essay puts forward the hypothesis that Oswald Ducrot's theoretical model of polyphony, which is based on the principles of argumentation theory, is useful, too, for evaluating the adequate rendering of irony in translation. The analysis is...

This article presents the conclusions reached after a long term collective research conducted by Stéphanie Benson, Nelly Labère and Gilles Mangard concerning the name of the author of Fifteen Joys of Marriage, an anonymous text written in Middle...

The aim of this article is, by finding a correlation between two forms of different languages (the corsican sévaru and the logudorese ségheru/seru), to propose a new etymology for these words and their correlated derivations.