Einleitung

Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen in der Romania

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https://doi.org/10.15460/4a7s8d22

Keywords:

Human-Animal Relations, Human-Animals Studies, Ecolinguistics, Animal Linguistics, Cultural And Literary Animal Studies, Romance-Speaking World, Anthropocentrism

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Introduction

Author Biographies

  • Stéphane Hardy, University of Siegen

    Stéphane Hardy is a Romance scholar and linguist at the University of Siegen, where she has taught and conducted research since 2012. Her research focuses on the linguistics of human-animal relations in the Romance languages, onomastics, and the study of argots, special languages and secret languages. In the fields of linguistic Human-Animal Studies and ecolinguistics, she examines how human-animal relations are constructed through naming practices, metaphors, lexical patterns, discourse and multimodal representations. Particular attention is devoted to zoosemy, zoomorphic metaphors, zoonymy and the discursive construction of invasive animal species and species perceived as undesirable. Her onomastic research also encompasses ergonymy, literary onomastics and contrastive naming practices in German, Italian, French and English. Another long-standing focus of her work is the study of French argots and secret languages, particularly the largonji du louchébem and louchébeum, as well as their social and identity-forming functions. She also conducts research on linguistic variation, sociolinguistics and varieties of French throughout the Francophone world. Her monograph Der largonji du louchébem – die Geheimsprache der Pariser Metzger. Eine kulturhistorische, lexikologische und soziolinguistische Analyse was published in 2023. She is co-editor of the two-volume handbook Weltsprache Französisch. Variation, Soziolinguistik und geographische Verbreitung des Französischen (2026).

  • Sandra Herling, University of Siegen

    Sandra Herling is a research associate at the Department of Romance Studies at the University of Siegen. Her research focuses on onomastics—with particular emphasis on colonial toponyms, zoonyms, and ergonyms—as well as language policy, human-animal studies, and ecolinguistics.

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Received

2026-06-14

Published

2026-06-30

Issue

No. 16 (2026): Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen in der Romania

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Hardy, S. and Herling, S. 2026. Einleitung: Mensch-Tier-Beziehungen in der Romania. apropos [Perspektiven auf die Romania]. 16 (Jun. 2026), 6–10. DOI:https://doi.org/10.15460/4a7s8d22.