Anadiss (Nov 2018)
L’identité francophone en question : la Francophonie à travers la presse roumaine actuelle
Abstract
Romania and France have had friendly relations for several centuries and, although in Romania French no longer enjoys its status of first foreign language that it has held until the early 2000s, it continues to be the most widely taught language after English. Before the 1989 Revolution, most of the Romanian intellectuals, especially the cultural elite, claimed to be French-speaking/Francophone, just like a good part of the population who saw French as a means of escaping the totalitarian regime of the time. Twenty-five years later, French remains fairly present in the lives of Romanians, but is it still considered an integral part of Romanian identity? We have tried to answer this question by analyzing a corpus of a hundred articles published in the Romanian press at the Francophone Summit in Bucharest (2006), but also at other more recent events related to the France and Francophone events.
