| Title: | Mediul lingvistic şi utilizarea mass-mediei |
| Author: | László Vincze |
| Publication: | Limbă, identitate, multilingvism şi politici educaţionale, p. 55 |
| ISBN: | 978-606-92223-7-9 |
| Editors: | Horváth István, Tódor Erika Mária |
| Publisher: | Editura Institutului pentru Studierea Problemelor Minorităţilor Naţionale |
| Place: | Cluj-Napoca |
| Year: | 2010 |
| Abstract: | [Linguistic Environment and the Media] Media represents a great importance for minorities as it creates opportunities for them to use their mother tongue on a daily basis. However, choosing the language of the media depends on several factors, one of them being the linguistic environment. In the case of Transylvanian Hungarians, media are available in both Hungarian and Romanian languages. The purpose of the present paper is to examine how the linguistic environment affects the language choice of secondary Hungarian students in four towns in Transylvania. Data consists of questionnaires that were conducted among 16-18-year-old students in four Transylvanian towns in 2008 and were analyzed using the SPSS 1.5 statistical software package. The results show that although many students use mainly Hungarian media, the majority of them still use the media in both languages. The high use of the Hungarian media is due to the students’ Hungarian education and to the fact that they grew up in monolingual Hungarian families. The use of the Romanian media on the first hand it is due to the higher technical quality of the media and on the other hand the linguistic environment. Linguistic environment turned out to have a ‘parallel effect’ on the language choice in the case of the media, i.e. the more is the number of the majority speakers, the more that language is chosen for media. As media language choice is said to have an effect on the language shift of the population, in order to maintain the minority language it is important to overcome the technical and institutional deficiencies of the minority language media. |
| Language: | Romanian |
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