Monica Hutanu

West University of Timişoara · Department of Romanian Studies

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 syst...

In Pluricentric Languages and non-dominant Varieties worldwide: New Pluricentric Languages – Old Problems (eds. Rudolf Muhr, Benjamin Meisnitzer). Frankfurt a.M./Wien u.a., Peter Lang Verlag, 233-246.

The current paper deals with the concept of mediation within the framework of second language acquisition, focusing on teaching and learning Romanian as a foreign and as a second language. Although the concept was introduced and discussed in CEFR (2001), it is only with the publication of a Companion Volume to CEFR (2018) that this mode of communic...

This chapter analyzes the processes through which Vlach Romanian, a non-dominant variety of Romanian spoken mainly in Eastern Serbia, becomes enregistered on the “Vlasi na kvadrat” Facebook page and comes to convey social identity related to place and characterological persona (being a Vla (squared)/Vlauca/Vlaurda from Eastern Serbia). Through meta...

This paper offers a brief review of the main online outlets for the variety of Romanian spoken in Eastern Serbia (Vlach Romanian), exploring the possible functions the internet plays for minority language communities in general and focusing on its role in the formation of active communities of collaborative minority language producers. We will firs...

Articolul reprezintă cea dintâi descriere amănunțită a "Vorbei noastre", apărută la Zaječar între 1945 și 1949, primul periodic în varietatea română locală vorbită în Serbia de est, scris și tipărit de membri ai comunității pentru comunitate, cu alfabet chirilic. Lectura celor 40 de numere ne-a permis să urmărim, pe de o parte, competiția dintre et...

This paper discusses the increased visibility of Vlach Romanian in the linguistic landscape of rural and small-town Eastern Serbia, analysing it in the context of the revitalisation measures the community has undertaken in the last 20 years. Our research was conducted in a mainly rural area, comprising four neighbouring municipalities in Eastern Se...

Published as a volume within the VLACH (Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage) series, this book represents the first in-depth sociolinguistic analysis of the Vlach community living in Eastern Serbia and of the language spoken by this community, Vlach Romanian. By integrating advances in the fields of language ideology, the online use of minori...

Drawing on Agha's (2003, 2005) theory of enregisterment, our research is concerned with the linguistic practices through which "old Romanian" as an imagined variety is perceived and represented online by educated non-linguists contributing to the Letopiseț ("chronicle") Facebook page. The administrator and the community gathered around this page wr...

În studiul de față ne ocupăm dintr-o perspectivă preponderent sociolingvistică de sistemele de scriere create de-a lungul timpului pentru reprezentarea grafică a variantei limbii române vorbite de comunitatea românofonă din Serbia de est. Urmărim în special ce influențează alegerea unui alfabet (latin sau chirilic), a unor convenții ortografice și...

Starting from a comparative perspective on Romanian and Serbian grammar, this paper deals with the acquisition and use of the Romanian possessive dative by students with L1 Serbian, who study Romanian as a foreign language. Various structural and functional differences between Romanian and Serbian account for the difficulties incurred by students w...

In this paper, we discuss the linguistic landscape of the graveyards of Eastern Serbia, with a special focus on a very recent phenomenon: the appearance of epitaphs in Vlach, a minority language whose codification and standardization have been developing at a fast pace in recent years. The creation of an official script for the Vlach language, the...