ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND LINGUISTIC RESEARCHES OF THE SERBIAN COMMUNITIES IN THE ARAD COUNTRY IN ROMANIA Cover Image

ИСТРАЖИВАЊА СРПСКИХ ЗАЈЕДНИЦА У ЖУПАНИЈИ АРАД У РУМУНИЈИ: АНТРОПОЛОШКОЛИНГВИСТИЧКА АНАЛИЗА НАРАТИВА О ПРАВЉЕЊУ
ANTHROPOLOGICAL AND LINGUISTIC RESEARCHES OF THE SERBIAN COMMUNITIES IN THE ARAD COUNTRY IN ROMANIA

Author(s): Svetlana Ćirković
Subject(s): Anthropology, Language studies, Museology & Heritage Studies, South Slavic Languages
Published by: Universitatea de Vest din Timişoara
Keywords: fieldwork research; linguistic anthropology; multilingualism; heritage language;

Summary/Abstract: In 2013, the research team of the Institute for Balkan Studies of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts began researches of the Serbian communities in the Arad county in Romania, within the project The Serbs in Romania and the Romanian-Yugoslav Ties in the Second Half of the 20th Century, signed by the Romanian Academy of Sciences and the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts. The project studies have an interdisciplinary framework, and the research team from Serbia focused its studies on the anthropological and linguistic topics. Applying the methodology of open interviews with interlocutors in the field, they discussed local and oral history, recorded biographical stories, stories from everyday life, conversations about the traditional culture of the Serbs in the surveyed settlements. Likewise, the team investigated the role of institutions (education in the Serbian language, role of the Orthodox Church and minority organizations), migration and mixed marriages in shaping the culture and identity of the Serbs in Romania. The paper will draw attention to some linguistic issues arising in the course of the survey.

  • Issue Year: 1/2015
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 455-472
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian