Language Policies Designed to Protect and Promote Minority Languages in Romania. Case Study: The Education in Armenian
Journal Title: EUROLIMES - Year 2016, Vol 22, Issue 22
Abstract
The main goal of the present study is to show that linguistic policies, at least in the case of minority languages, mean presumably more than the macro-policies adopted and implemented by the national authority at a government level. They may prove to be either inadequate or too general for the specific needs of a particular minority. Therefore, they must be updated and complemented based on a minority’s own needs – a meso-level type policies generated by minority representation bodies (NGOs, political representation, private schools, the media, the Church, etc.). Furthermore, a major contributor to this regard are the micro-level type language policies – households and individuals belonging to a language minority – which should contribute to the efforts of perpetuating the linguistic heritage by using the language and passing it on to the next generations, or by becoming involved in the approaches designed to appropriate and enhance the vitality of the mother tongue. Thus, the language policies can be regarded as links in an operational chain, with each of them answering to a well-specified role. Each of these segments must assume and apply their respective roles, while preserving a fluent and bi-directional communication between them. When one of these links is – totally or partially – malfunctioning or when communication is done defectively, the linguistic policy will also present inherent failures. The subject of the analysis below is investigating and demonstrating these hypotheses, with regard to the Romanian authorities and the Armenian language in education.
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Silvia Iorgulescu
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