| Title: | Despre bilingvism în contextul pieţei forţei de muncă |
| Author: | Angella Sorbán |
| Publication: | Limbă, identitate, multilingvism şi politici educaţionale, p. 81 |
| 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: | [About Bilingualism in Labour Market Context] The present paper is based on the results of a sociological survey made with the method of in-depth interview among the graduate Hungarians in Romania, concerning the relationship between bilingualism and individual strategies on the labour market. Three aspects are explored in this context: the determinant factors of the situation of minority employees on the national labour market, the advantages of bilingualism and the lack of linguistic competence in a mother tongue. It is a fact that - within the scope of a national state – one of the most important instruments of getting along for minorities is a high level competence of the official language of the state. Their situation on the labour market is influenced, however, by the positions of the Hungarians as a minority in the social structure, as well as by the economical and political status occupied by the Hungarians, and, naturally, also by the social networks they belong to. In the same time there may be identified a cultural component of labour market functioning, on the one hand, pertaining to linguistic and ethnic preferences in the practice of employment on the part of the employers, or labour market strategies on the part of the employees, on the other hand. There are several pronouncements about the many advantages of bilingualism in the everyday discourse, the same as it is in sociolinguistic literature. The question is, however, what kind of bilingualism is beneficial, and what kind of society might speak about it. This survey shows different opinions, judgment and experiments in this regard. The lack of linguistic competence is a quotidian experience for everybody in a bilingual milieu. Linguistic analyses draw our attention to the fact that the narrowing of functional utility of a minority language necessarily leads to the lack of linguistic competence and the loss of different registers in the mother tongue. These consequences affect the social behaviour and they are detrimental to the speaker, as they signify, in fact, a constraint to use the official language (Lanstyák 2008, Szilágyi 2008). In this respect, the lack of linguistic competence in mother tongue is essentially a question of human right as pertains to human dignity. In interviews, in related stories of careers one may find several examples to confirm these assertions. |
| Language: | Romanian |
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