OUR LANGUAGE - LANGUAGE AND NATIONAL CONSCIOUSNESS AS SEEN BY INTELLIGENTSIA FROM CHISINAU

• Authors: Garbolinska A.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This article discusses the language as a factor shaping national identity in Moldavia as seen by pro-Romanian intelligentsia, popularly referred to as Romanian nationalists. This movement's aim is to unite Moldavia with its true motherland of Romania. This situation differs from that in other former-USSR countries. People, who are called nationalists in Moldavia, neglect the existence of their state. They neither recognize Moldavian nation nor Moldavian language; instead they want to call those Romanian. It seems like the latter has an essential meaning for their national identity, and is also used as a weapon in political battles in Moldavia. The authoress presents also how her informants perceive relations between Moldavian, Romanian and Russian languages.

Keywords

EN

MOLDAVIA (LANGUAGE & NATIONAL IDENTITY); PRO-ROMANIAN INTELLIGENTSIA

Discipline

• ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Etnografia Polska
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 51
• Issue: 1-2
• Pages: 131-148
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Garbolinska A.

• A. Garbolinska, for postal address contact the journal editor

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA03457071