Remarks on the names of Romanian pre-tertiary educational institutions in the context of multiculturalism

Abstract

The paper aims at analysing, from a multidisciplinary perspective, the most frequent strategies and patterns of naming public and private kindergartens, primary and secondary schools which function as sociocultural markers in multiethnic communities. The synchronic socio-onomastic approach of a corpus consisting of 400 official names allowed us to identify in Romanian postcommunist society (1) a local, traditional type of multiculturalism promoting cultural diversity in school naming, and (2) a globalized, modern type of multiculturalism reflecting cultural homogenization as a result of the growing Anglophilia in naming kindergartens.