The Socio-Communicative Language of Empowerment of Roma: a Case Study

Abstract

This article presents the results of a case study with Romani speakers from Germany. Poverty among Roma communities in Europe is the reason for the growth of racism in almost all EU countries. On the other hand, Roma communities are becoming more organized and responding to existing forms of racism. One form of Roma response is emancipation and expansion of the language they use. The purpose of the articleis to show a template model for language analysis of spoken text. The article also shows the empowerment of the Roma community in Germany, openly opposing existing forms of Antiromanism. Research methods and techniques. The study included one Romani speaker, a young Romani man born in Serbia who immigrated to Germany as a child. In his everyday communicative ecology, he speaks four languages: Romani, Serbian, German and English. Sociolinguistic methods are used to analyze his language. When speaking German, he uses lexical units of Romani and English, and at the same time uses various sociolinguistic strategies known among multilinguals. Results and discussion. A Romani speaker is fluent in German, and uses situational lexical borrowings from Romani and English, code-switching sentences, discursive strategies such as cursing and neologisms. The presented model of speech analysis can be used for further sociolinguistic research, analyzing the data of spoken spoken language. Conclusions.The powers of the Roma in supporting Ukraine in the Russian-Ukrainian war are shown, during this war is condemned. As an illustration of empowerment, the appeal of the Roma organization to various international institutions, as well as the recommendations of the EU Council from 2021 on equality, integration and participation of Roma are cited.Keywords:Roma, empowerment, language, conversational analysis