CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2014
| Author | Menichova, Martina |
|---|---|
| Title | NATION-BUILDING THROUGH LANGUAGE AND ITS IMPLICATIONS FOR MINORITIES: CASE STUDY OF HUNGARIANS IN SLOVAKIA |
| Summary | This thesis examines the processes of nation-building through language ideologies and policies and their implications on the status of the Hungarian minority in the Slovak Republic. It seeks to go beyond the simple notions of exclusion and assimilation and scrutinize further dimensions and constellations of such incidents. For this purpose, a theoretical model of language ideologies, policies and discourse is selected as a central structure. These are applied on the recent language dispute about a name change of a village in southern Slovakia. Subsequently, through analyzing existing language policies and actual use of Hungarian in the area of public administration, implications of linguistic way of nation-building are drawn. It is argued that although the Slovak state conceives its language policies rather restrictively, the members of Hungarian minority are currently able to build their own structures in public domain. The greater damage in the long run is, however, caused by the state indifference in supporting the usage of minority languages. This tendency reflects the monolingual establishment of a nation-state in which minority languages are treated as a threat to the existing order. Furthermore, this standard leads political authorities to perpetuate protection of the state language, on the one hand, and undermine the status of minority languages, on the other. |
| Supervisor | Váradi, Luca |
| Department | Nationalism Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2014/menichova_martina.pdf |
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