TY - JOUR
T1 - Building a Bilingual Elite: “National Indifference” and Romanian Students in Hungarian High Schools (1867–1914)
AU - Berecz, Ágoston
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Center for Austrian Studies, University of Minnesota.
PY - 2023/3/13
Y1 - 2023/3/13
N2 - This article highlights the role investment in Hungarian-language skills played in the social reproduction of the Romanian national elite in Dualist Hungary. At any point during the era, little less than half of middle-class Romanian students attended Hungarian-language high schools, which their parents largely considered as language training institutions. Parental choices and the sons’ experiences gain significance when set against the view that such investment in linguistic capital was a subversive practice challenging nationalist mobilization. Based on former students’ memoirs, school yearbooks, and histories, this article concentrates on the strategies of parents, the class-based inequality of access to Hungarian, the language policies of schools, and teachers’ ambiguous treatment of Romanian students.
AB - This article highlights the role investment in Hungarian-language skills played in the social reproduction of the Romanian national elite in Dualist Hungary. At any point during the era, little less than half of middle-class Romanian students attended Hungarian-language high schools, which their parents largely considered as language training institutions. Parental choices and the sons’ experiences gain significance when set against the view that such investment in linguistic capital was a subversive practice challenging nationalist mobilization. Based on former students’ memoirs, school yearbooks, and histories, this article concentrates on the strategies of parents, the class-based inequality of access to Hungarian, the language policies of schools, and teachers’ ambiguous treatment of Romanian students.
KW - Dualist Hungary
KW - Romanian history
KW - individual bilingualism
KW - multilingualism
KW - national indifference
KW - secondary education
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U2 - 10.1017/S0067237823000036
DO - 10.1017/S0067237823000036
M3 - Article
SN - 0067-2378
VL - 54
SP - 159
EP - 176
JO - Austrian History Yearbook
JF - Austrian History Yearbook
ER -