2017/11/29 by Monica Huţanu, Annemarie Sorescu-Marinković · 1 citation
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity #Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics #Balkans: History, Politics, Society #Vernacular #Writing system #Orthography #Romanian #Ideology #Linguistics #Politics #Variety (cybernetics) #Linguistic landscape #Rendering (computer graphics) #History #Sociology #Political science #Computer science #Law #Philosophy
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In this article we examine, from a predominantly sociolinguistic perspective, the writing systems created throughout time for the graphic rendering of the variety of Romanian spoken by the Vlachs of Eastern Serbia. We especially investigate what influences the choice of a script (Latin or Cyrillic), of orthographic conventions and of a writing system, and how this choice correlates with the ideological attitude (reintegrationist or independentist) of the proponents. To this end, we analyse the writing systems used for rendering the vernacular in “Vorba noastră”, the first publication in the local variety (1945–1948), and the systems put forward in the last 20 years by the members of the community engaged in political and linguistic debates (Paun Es Durlić, Dragomir Dragić, Slavoljub Gacović, Ljubiša lu Boža Kići, the “Gergina” Association). The analysis and the comparison of the systems attest to the importance of the ideological, social and political factors in creating and imposing an orthography for an unwritten idiom.