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Foreword
The German Department of the University of Helsinki and the European Society of Phraseology,
supported by the Finnish DAAD Alumni Club, hosted an international conference in Helsinki on
August 13-16, 2008. The topic was “Phraseology global – areal – regional” (= EUROPHRAS
2008). Over 200 people from 34 countries participated in the two-part conference. Part 1 was a
symposium on the topic “Languages and Cultures under the Pressure of Globalization: Phraseology
– a Burden or a Benefit?” Part 2 consisted of EUROPHRAS sections and a workshop entitled
“Collocations in Specialized Discourses”. The symposium program, part of the festivities celebrating
the 100 th anniversary of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, consisted of seven
lectures on the central theme of how the phraseology of certain languages influences others. Following
these lectures there were seven simultaneous sections about the origin, development,
structure and use of phraseologisms within individual languages as well as comparisons and contrasts
of multiple languages. In total there were 162 presentations in the sections and workshop
(for further information about the conference as such please see the two reports by Annikki Liimatainen/Ulrike
Richter-Vapaatalo at: http://www.europhras.org/bulletin/Europhras_Bulletin_Gesamt_2009.pdf,
pp. 7-11 and by Antje Heine et al. in: Neuphilologische Mitteilungen 110, pp.
255-263).
As the publication of all presentations from the EUROPHRAS 2008 is not possible primarily
due to financial reasons, the organizers came to the following decision: A selection of presentations
which are directly related to the central theme or show a contrast or comparison between
various languages or language varieties will be included in an essay volume. Additional presentations
will be published on the internet. Furthermore, after the conference several colleagues
agreed to edit their own essay volumes in addition to the workshop in the following areas: routine
formulas, phraseology in literary texts and computer-supported phraseology. A total of 98 contributions
were submitted to the organizers for publication.
After an appraisal and consultation among the editors, 43 articles were accepted for this essay
volume. The selection of articles was based on contextual and qualitative criteria as well as the
inclusion of as many language families as possible (Germanic, Slavic, Romance, etc.). The essay
volume consists of two parts: I. Phraseology global – areal – regional and II. Contrastive and
comparative phraseology. At the beginning of the first part are the seven symposium lectures.
Following these are articles in which phraseology is examined from a global viewpoint, with the
global aspect at times being supplemented by areal and/or regional aspects. Next are articles in
which globalization is understood as one language borrowing phraseologisms from another. At
the end of part I are articles focusing on areal or regional aspects of phraseology. Part II opens
with contrastive articles. First is an article contrasting three languages, the following articles all
contrast two languages. The order of articles dealing with two languages was based on membership
of the examined languages to specific language families. In most articles a Germanic language
(primarily German) is contrasted with a Slavic or Romance language, which is the reason
they were given precedence. The arrangement of the second section of part II, i. e. the group of
comparative articles, is similar to the first section. At the beginning there are articles dealing with
multiple languages, followed by articles about two languages. Again the German language has a
central role in these articles.