Citations:Germanophone

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English citations of Germanophone and germanophone

Adjective: German-speaking[edit]

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  • 1975, Lewis H. Gann, “Economic development in Germany's African empire, 1884–1914”, in Peter Duignan, Lewis H. Gann, editors, Colonialism in Africa 1870–1960, Volume Four: The Economics of Colonialism, Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 252:
    The Allies conquered Germany's overseas dependencies, and thereby helped to prevent the emergence of a Germanophone Africa, tied by language, commerce and administrative tradition to Central Europe.
  • 1978 October 1, Language Interpretation and Communication[1], volume 1977, Plenum Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 164:
    Indeed he could do it well enough for him to act as liaison interpreter between his Francophone grandparents and the Germanophone family cook, asking the latter to fetch milk, light the lamp, etc., for the former.
  • 1992 October 28, Donna Gomien, “Pluralism and Minority Access to Media”, in Allan Rosas, Jan E. Helgesen, editors, The Strength of Diversity: Human Rights and Pluralist Democracy, Dordrecht: Kluwen Academic Publishers, →ISBN, page 59:
    Belgium has split responsibility for the administration for the administration of broadcasting services amongst three councils, one each for the francophone, Flemish-speaking and germanophone communities.
  • 1994, John-Paul Himka, “German Culture and the National Awakening in Western Ukraine before the Revolution of 1848”, in Hans-Joachim Torke, John-Paul Himka, editors, German-Ukrainian Relations in Historical Perspective, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 33:
    [] it must not be forgotten that it was ultimately the German university and Germanophone cultural elite which attracted the multinational awakeners to the capital.
  • 1999 Autumn, Katherine Arens, “For Want of a Word ...: The Case for Germanophone”, in Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German, volume 32, number 2, Focus on Action Research, →JSTOR, page 130:
    In what follows, I would like to argue that another such nail is missing in German-language literary and cultural studies: the term germanophone, a word that needs to be coined and put into use as a parallel to the widely-accepted anglophone and francophone.
  • 2002, Felicity Rash, “The German-Romance Language Borders in Switzerland”, in Jeanine Treffers-Daller, Roland Willemyns, editors, Language Contact at the Romance-Germanic Language Border, Multilingual Matters, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OL, page 119:
    There are two German-speaking communities in the francophone canton of Jura, Chatelet and Rebevelier, with 61.1% and 80% germanophone inhabitants respectively.
  • 2004 February 2, Queen's University Institute of Intergovernmental Relations, edited by Alain Noël, Federalism and Labour Market Policy: Comparing Different Governance and Employment Strategies, McGill-Queen's University Press, →ISBN, →OL, page 184:
    In the francophone and germanophone part of the country, the distinction between Community and Region has been maintained.
  • 2007 Winter, Frank Trommler, “Is literature still central to German studies?”, in The German Quarterly[2]:
    That new study would start by admitting the fallacy of studying only German culture rather than the globe's multiple germanophone cultural centers (from Milwaukee to Zurich and Konigsberg) and the networks in which they are engaged (or were, historically attested).

Noun: speaker of German[edit]

  • 1995 February 1, Jacques Derrida, “Is There a Philosophical Language?”, in Points...: Interviews, 1974–1994, Stanford University Press, page 226:
    As for French specialists of Wittgenstein, neither Germanophones nor Anglophones are very interested in it, to the point that one cannot even say they resist it
  • 2000, Julia Rogers Herschensohn, The Second Time Around: Minimalism and L2 Acquisition, John Benjamins Publishing, →ISBN, →OL, page 106:
    He bases his proposal on data from acquisition of English by francophones (Eubank 1993/94), of German by a hispanophone (Eubank 1994) and of English by a germanophone (Eubank 1996).
  • 2001 November 30, Terrence E. Cook, Nested Political Coalitions: Nation, Regime, Program, Cabinet, Westport: Praeger, →ISBN, →OL, page 40:
    With popular nationalistic fervor opposed to Denmark's planned absorption of the local germanophones into Demark, the germanophone states united behind military action.