CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2009
| Author | Batizan, Emese Emoke |
|---|---|
| Title | Language in Motion? Popular, Political and Identity Aspects of Hungarian in Romania |
| Summary | This thesis sets out to examine the status of the Hungarian language in Romania, and to analyze the origins, validity and meaning of the widespread view that it is in decline. It looks at daily use of the language and its role in public institutions, explores attitudes towards it amongst its users, and analyzes objectives and activities of a number of Hungarian minority organizations that advocate the preservation and revitalization of language as part of the effort to maintain Hungarian culture and identity in contemporary Romania. Informed by work on minority culture in liberal democracies (Kymlicka, Csergő, Keller), I focus more particularly on issues of language dominance and predominance, language parity (Csergő, Mühlhäusler), language policy and planning (Bochmann, Bratt Paulston, Kloss, Toffelson), bilingualism and diglossia (Bourdieu, Grosjean, Bartha, Lambert, Ferguson, Fishman). The thesis was researched in three sites. One is Tîrgu Mureş/Mar osvásá ;rhely, a town in Central Romania, in an area where Hungarians make up 39.30% of the population, and which is known also as “the Hungarian semi-block” (Official Census Data 2002). The other two sites are diasporic communities, that is predominantly Hungarian communities in areas where Hungarians make less than 20% of the population. One is village of Răcă ;ştie/R&# xe1;kosd in South Transylvania. The other is a number of villages inhabited by members of the Csango community in Bacău county. |
| Supervisor | Prof. Rabinowitz, Dan; Prof. Krizsan, Andrea |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2009/batizan_emese.pdf |
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