Essen und Trinken in der Romania

Eine kulinarische Entdeckungsreise durch die romanische Sprachgeschichte

Authors

  • Teresa Gruber Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
  • Elissa Pustka Universität Wien

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15460/apropos.10.2103

Keywords:

Romance languages, Vulgar Latin, etymology, vocabulary, food and drink

Abstract

From Roman orgies to Tex-Mex cuisine at McDonald’s, this paper demonstrates what the trending topics of food culture and the foodie cult can reveal about the history of Romance languages and etymology. It presents the Cena Trimalchionis as a source of Vulgar Latin and the Nodicia de Kesos as an early monument of Ibero-Romance with its phonological, morphosyntactic and lexical characteristics. The history of the expressions for To Eat and Cheese shows how expressive innovations and word formation processes work on the basis of metaphor, metonymy, composition and derivation. The terms for coffee, tea, fruits and vegetables illustrate the importance of language contact, and the history of the expressions for different meals shows the importance of cultural change. Finally, a look at (pseudo)-romance expressions in the linguistic landscape of German-speaking countries underlines the international presence of Romance vocabulary in gastronomy and the food industry.

Author Biographies

Teresa Gruber, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München

Teresa Gruber is a scholar in Romance Linguistics with research interests in multilingualism and interculturality, discourse and media linguistics, and phraseology. Her doctoral thesis, "Multilingualism and Language Reflection in the Early Modern Period. Spanish in the Kingdom of Naples", was completed in 2014 at the Ludwig-Maxi­milians-Universität Munich and published by Gunter Narr. After a postdoctoral re­search fellowship at the Cátedra de Altos Estudios del Español of the Universidad de Sala­man­ca in 2017, she is currently employed as a researcher in Romance Linguistics at the Insti­tute of Romance Philology at LMU Munich, where she is working on a habilitation on "Light Verb Constructions and competing lexical full verbs in Spanish and Portuguese". To­gether with Elissa Pustka, she delivered the introductory lecture to Romance linguistics at the LMU from 2012 to 2014.

Elissa Pustka, Universität Wien

Elissa Pustka is a University Professor of Romance Linguistics and Communication Science. Her research focus is on phonology, (staged) orality, perception, creolistics, linguistic landscape studies and language learning and teaching. She was leader of the research project „Pronunciation in progress: French Schwa and Liaison (Pro2F)“ (Austrian Science Fund) and is co-investigator of the Sparkling Science project „VisibLL –  Schüler*innen erforschen die (un)übersehbare Mehrsprachigkeit der Wiener Linguistic Landscape“ (funded by the Austrian Ministry for Education, Science and Research, 2022–2025). In 2022, her introduction to French linguistics was published by Narr. From 2012 to 2014, she delivered the introductory lecture to Romance linguistics at the LMU Munich with Teresa Gruber.

Café Central in Málaga: at the corner of Calle Santa María and Plaza de la Constitución, © Teresa Gruber

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Published

2023-06-30

How to Cite

[1]
Gruber, T. and Pustka, E. 2023. Essen und Trinken in der Romania: Eine kulinarische Entdeckungsreise durch die romanische Sprachgeschichte. apropos [Perspektiven auf die Romania]. 10 (Jun. 2023), 262–286. DOI:https://doi.org/10.15460/apropos.10.2103.

Issue

No. 10 (2023): Künste des Dazwischen: Graphische Literatur und visuelle Poesie der Romania als Genres ‘en marge‘

Section

Essay

URN

http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:gbv:18-8-21030

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Copyright (c) 2023 Elissa Pustka, Teresa Gruber

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