TY - JOUR
T1 - Language competence as a moderator of ethnolinguistic identity gratifications among three language minorities in Europe
AU - Vincze, Laszlo
AU - Harwood, Jake
N1 - Funding Information:
The empirical research and the work of the first author was supported by the project “Bilingualism, Identity and the Media in Interand Intra-Cultural Comparisons” (Academy of Finland, Project 1123686), and a grant from the Ella and Georg Ehrnrooth Foundation .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2015 Swiss Association of Communication and Media Research.
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Using a social identity gratifications framework (Harwood, 1997, 1999), this paper examines the role of ethnolinguistic identity and language competence in influencing television viewing among three language minorities in Europe: the German minority in South-Tyrol, Italy; the Hungarian minority in Transylvania, Romania; and the Swedish minority in Southern Finland. Self-report questionnaire data were collected among secondary school students (N = 1443) in 2010. The results indicated that in settings where preference for, or consumption of, minority language media was relatively low, effects of identity on minority television language preferences were strongest for those who were least bilingual. In contrast, in settings where minority language television preferences were relatively high, the effects were stronger for more bilingual audience members. Findings and implications are discussed.
AB - Using a social identity gratifications framework (Harwood, 1997, 1999), this paper examines the role of ethnolinguistic identity and language competence in influencing television viewing among three language minorities in Europe: the German minority in South-Tyrol, Italy; the Hungarian minority in Transylvania, Romania; and the Swedish minority in Southern Finland. Self-report questionnaire data were collected among secondary school students (N = 1443) in 2010. The results indicated that in settings where preference for, or consumption of, minority language media was relatively low, effects of identity on minority television language preferences were strongest for those who were least bilingual. In contrast, in settings where minority language television preferences were relatively high, the effects were stronger for more bilingual audience members. Findings and implications are discussed.
KW - Ethnolinguistic identity
KW - German in South-Tyrol
KW - Hungarian in Transylvania
KW - Minority languages
KW - Swedish in Finland
KW - Television
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U2 - 10.1016/j.scoms.2015.02.001
DO - 10.1016/j.scoms.2015.02.001
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:84938211938
SN - 1424-4896
VL - 15
SP - 151
EP - 157
JO - Studies in Communication Sciences
JF - Studies in Communication Sciences
IS - 1
ER -