THE ENFORCEMENT OF LANGUAGE RIGHTS OF MINORITIES IN ROMANIA. THE PUBLIC POLICIES DESIGNED TO PROTECT AND PROMOTE THE ARMENIAN LANGUAGE
Journal Title: Europolity - Continuity and Change in European Governance - Year 2016, Vol 10, Issue 2
Abstract
The object of the article is to analyse a field not often addressed, that of public linguistic policies, and the means by which they are updated or upgraded by enforcing linguistic rights for minority languages at the national level. We begin our assessment from the idea that, in the linguistic field, macro-policies are targeting multiple levels: creating laws that impact the protection of minority languages, funding organizations representing minorities, establishing government institutions that implement and verify the enforcement of the linguistic rights of minorities. The legal framework stipulates these rights, the budgetary allocations provide concrete support for their enforcement, and the institutions verify their implementation. Additionally, we must cite a fourth major component, namely the cooperation between national authorities and the organizations representing minorities. All of these mechanisms are addressed with reference to the Armenian community, which is characterized by specificities and vulnerabilities layered on numerous levels, in an attempt to highlight: the language policies that fall exclusively in the responsibility of the government; the contexts where the need is felt for a close collaboration between the government and minorities (through their representative bodies), the way they complement each other to maintain the language continuity of a minority
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Silvia Iorgulescu
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