DIALECTS “PEEKING THROUGH” MONO - NORMATIVE TEXTBOOKS

• Main Author: Kádár, Edit
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Babes-Bolyai University 2018-01-01
• Series: PedActa
• Subjects: Hungarian first - language education; textbook analysis; dialects; standard language ideology
• Online Access: http://padi.psiedu.ubbcluj.ro/pedacta/article_7_1_4_27-38.pdf

The article is focused on the portrayal of the „language landscape” of the Hungarian language and literature textbooks currently used in primary and secondary education in Romania, that is the representation (or fail of it) of the linguistic variety. Starting from the explicit or implicit definition of these textbooks given for the term dialect, the research is directed towards unveiling the perspectives, attitudes, ideology, and even stereotypes behind the contents of Hungarian first-language education and their organization; the ways and extent in which the varieties of the language and the individual’s language varieties find (or don’t find) their way into the main discourse characterized by the dominance of the standard language variant and its norm as normality; and also the positioning of the dialects on the scale streaching from a mere linguistic topic, through a cultural prodigy, up to a communication tool.