Teutophone
Language: English
Part of speech: adj
Forms: form: Teutonophone
form: teutonophone
form: teutophone
Etymology: From Teuto- + -phone.
Senses: examples: text: Although numerous futuristic details are evoked—blepophones, nuclear hang-lines, portable artificial lungs for cancer victims, the transformation of the map of Europe into “Teutophone” and “Francophone” states—Burgess is at pains to keep the world recognizable.
ref: 1990, Margaret Scanlan, “Anthony Burgess’s The End of the World News”, in Traces of Another Time: History and Politics in Postwar British Fiction, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, →ISBN, page 185:
text: In the case of Germany, the idea of the Teutophone Volk existed prior to the unified German nation-state (which did not, and will not in the foreseeable future, encompass all of the German-speaking peoples).
ref: 1997, Language Contact and Language Conflict: Proceedings of the International Ivar Aasen Conference, 14-15 November 1996, University of Oslo, Volda College, →ISBN:
text: > So if you want to compare hispanics to barbarians, you should really compare
> them to the Romans. The Romans were the real barbarians of their time,
> whereas the Germanic tribes were more civilized.
Your "Teutophone" inclination notwithstanding, I'm afraid nobody would agree with you, save Christians and Jewish nationalists. =) The fact is that Germans (and other barbarians, might I add) immigrated to Rome, not the other way around. Rome's fall in the West is rightly considered the beginning of The Dark Ages.
ref: 2002 July 22, ehre, “That negro teenage criminal got what he deserved”, in soc.culture.asian.american (Usenet):
text: Husserl’s stated reasons for accepting it were its familiarity, particularly in Teutophone and foreign-language works of psychology, and its brevity: Husserl defined ‘act’ as a shorthand for the somewhat longer (but hardly cumbersome) phrase ‘intentional experience’. […] Exploring the import of Erlebnis for Teutophone philosophy prior to or after Husserl, the phenomenological tradition particularly, or even Husserl’s own later work, would involve more significant a digression from the present task than I can afford.
ref: 2007, Ryan Hickerson, The History of Intentionality, Bloomsbury Academic, →ISBN, pages 76 and 145:
text: The other main charm-type represented in the Tartu archive is Three roses, a type that has its heartland in Teutophone Central Europe – German examples date from the 1500s onwards, and the type later appeared in the popular German book of charms, Romanusbüchlein.
ref: 2009, Jonathan Roper, editor, Charms, Charmers and Charming: International Research on Verbal Magic (Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic), Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 179:
text: A similar notion of a Teutophone sphere is historically central to German cultural and educational policy, but influence is seen from the German perspective more as using its power to create an interest and awareness of its political and cultural goals as a basis for dialogue.
ref: 2013, James Pamment, “West European Public Diplomacy”, in Mai’a K. Davis Cross, Jan Melissen, editors, European Public Diplomacy: Soft Power at Work, Palgrave Macmillan, →ISBN, page 17:
text: It is also interesting to note that the influence of English-speaking media is specifically identified as a threat, and the antidote is considered to be a Teutophone mediascape made possible through German language education – a transposition of economic strength into ideoscapes.
ref: 2013, James Pamment, “Time, Space & German Soft Power: Toward a Spatio-Temporal Turn in Diplomatic Studies?”, in Perspectives: Review of Central European Affairs, volume 21, number 2, Prague, →ISSN, page 16:
text: As a Teutophone Jew living in early 20ᵗʰ century Prague at a time when the politics of language and nation rose to the level of ordinary frenzy, Kafka’s literary work and correspondence brim with erotically charged conflict, particularly vis-à-vis the family, the justice system and the bureaucratic state.
ref: 2015, David Kroening Seitz, “[“Why Are You Doing This?” Desiring Queer Global Citizenship] Mapping Desire”, in “A House of Prayer for All People”: Promises of Citizenship in Queer Church, thesis submitted in conformity with the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy, Toronto, Ont.: Graduate Department of Geography and Planning, w:University of Toronto, page 147:
synonyms: Germanophone
glosses: German-speaking.