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Aspects interlinguistiques dans la société roumaine actuelle
Interlinguistic Aspects in Today’s Romanian Society

Author(s): Angelica Hobjila
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Theoretical Linguistics, Applied Linguistics, Morphology
Published by: UNIVERSITATEA »ȘTEFAN CEL MARE« SUCEAVA
Keywords: interculturality; interlinguism; interlinguistic situations; massmedia; dictionary;

Summary/Abstract: In the present article, interculturality - which implies theexistence of variation, recognition/ acceptance and cultivation of thisvariation - is associated with interlinguism. My analysis proposes thepresentation of interculturalism and interlinguism as realities which involveother particular relations: culturalisation – intraculturalisation –interculturalisation and their consequences in the usage of the linguisticelements in certain contexts. While particularizing these aspects, I willconsider, on the one hand, certain linguistic hypostases in the Romanianmass-media as reflections of interculturalism and, on the other hand, certainarguments that the latest A Dictionary of Romanian Orthography, Orthoepyand Morphology (DOOM, 2005) provides for the inclusion in the Romanianlanguage of the lexical units which characterize other cultures. In this way Iunderline the features of interlinguistic reality located – in practice –between the culture and vehicle of communication.