REFERENCES REGARDING BEHAVIORAL AND COMMUNICATION RULES IN THE WRITINGS OF TRANSYLVANIAN SCHOOL
REFERENCES REGARDING BEHAVIORAL AND COMMUNICATION RULES IN THE WRITINGS OF TRANSYLVANIAN SCHOOL

Summary/Abstract: The urgent need for the national affirmation and the transmission among the Romanians of the knowledge disseminated at European level by the Age of Enlightenment determined an unprecedented activism in the Romanian culture by intellectuals involved in the cultural-national movement of the Transylvanian School. A less known representative of the Enlightenment in Transylvania was the theologian Vasile Gherghel of Ciocotiş, who published in 1819 in Vienna, the work ―The Wordly Man, a manual containing rules of communication and behavior in society, as well as arguments about the importance of the cultivation and the promotion of the Romanian language as a condition for the recovery and affirmation of the identity in the inter-cultural dialogue of a multi-ethnic space, marked by strong cultural-political dominances. The uniqueness of the work is also given by the fact that it is the largest Romanian book with Latin spelling until then and the first work printed by someone from Maramureş. Behavioral and communication rules translated, edited and interpreted by the author, thought as a step towards rising awareness of the importance of communication and orientation of young Romanians in accordance with the behavioral demands of time, are suggestive and extremely fresh for anyone who is concerned about the desiderata of the most appropriate communications and of personal fulfilment. These are subordinated to a capital virtue that young people must acquire: the correct writing and speaking of the Romanian language, its use before any other.

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