helsinki university of helsinki department of finnish finno ugrian and scandinavian studies (3 Ergebnisse)

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 232 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), colour maps ; 21 cm. This volume takes a new look at the Moldavian Csángós, an enigmatic group of people whose very existence as a group has been debated since the 19th century. The Csángós form a historical minority consisting of Roman Catholics that speak a Hungarian vernacular and live in an Orthodox region of Moldavia in North-East Romania. The articles in this volume include new perspectives on qualitative research of minority groups through the presentation of in-depth research on Csángós based on extensive fieldwork and firsthand accounts of contemporary conditions.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 377 pages ; 21 cm. Papers are in English and Russian. Mordvin languages in the field is one of the publications by the Helsinki Area & Language Studies initiative (HALS), a research community promoting culturally grounded language studies. The book is the result of a student field trip to the Republic of Mordovia in August 2013 and a subsequent seminar in November. The articles, both in English and Russian, deal with grammatical as well as sociolinguistic and cultural themes. Utilising a range of theoretical and methodological approaches, topics discussed include Mordvin dialectology, phonology, morphosyntax, sociolinguistics and folkloristics. The majority of the articles are based on first-hand data, primarily collected in the field. Combined, they provide a window onto the living multilingual community of Mordovia.

Soft cover. Zustand: New. 145 pages : illustrations, map ; 21 cm. Text in English; bibliographical references in English and Russian. This study focuses on the phenomenon of granting an official status for minority languages. The aim of this research is to explore the formation and configuration of the official status of state languages in Finno-Ugric Republics of the Russian Federation, in order to understand the reasons for their designation and to shed light on the specifics of the official status in the case of minority languages. In the case of minority languages their official status functions foremost and often exclusively as a national symbol. Unless the minority language is the sole official language of the region, the official status proves to offer only a partial tool of language revival.