Nyelvek, ideológiák és kisebbségek az írott médiában
Languages, Ideologies and Minorities in the Written Media

Summary/Abstract: The topic of this study is language ideologies in minority language journals. It analyses the language ideologies expressed in four journals of three minorities: speakers of Csángó, Meänkieli and Kven. I am mainly interested in what language ideologies are reflected in the relation of minorities to their own language, the majority language, bi- and multilingualism; what they think about the importance of language standardization and about the relationship between language and identity. The journals researched are the Moldvai Magyarság, written in Hungarian and Romanian; the Ruijan Kaiku, written in Finnish, Kven and Norwegian; the Met, which publishes articles in Meänkieli and Swedish, as well as Meänmaa, publishing in Meänkieli. Th e text corpus shows the following ideologies: the ideology of inferiority, of pluralism or liberalism and the ideology which considers language the basis of identity. A difference can be made among the journals as the ideologies the texts represent are concerned. In the case of the Csángó journal, for example, the emphasis is laid on the unity with the Hungarian language standard; at the same time, in the Meänkieli and the Kven journals this kind of ideology is totally absent, as Meänkieli and Kven speakers do not identify with the Finnish language standard.

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