Nuove costruzioni dell’immaginario identitario – studio di caso

Abstract

"Some New Constructions of the Identitary Imaginary – A Case Study. The starting point of the present research is based mainly on the experience of working with young people of Romanian origin, more specifically, university students, who live and study abroad, and concerns their self-perception at the level of their identy and some possible characteristics of their imaginary identity. The theoretical aspect of this research can be divided in two as follows: a general part, focusing on the theory of migration, the ethnic language/heritage language and the new identity typologies resulting from the current economic and political state of affairs and a second part, structured according to the coordinates of the collective and personal imaginary. The practical aspect is based, on the one hand, on the answers these students offered to some questionnaires administered for a period of seven years and, on the other hand, on a series of compositions written by the students in the form of ""open letters to Romania"", as an assignment for their Romanian language course on the occasion of the National Day of Romania, collected over the last three years. I will try to analyse both the answers to the questionnaires and their ""letters"", from the perspective of the above mentioned theory, with the explicit purpose of extracting some characterisctics. Keywords: migration, ethnic language, heritage language, imaginary identity, identity perception, identity typology, linguistic imaginary "