{"title":"Transcultural phenomena in contemporary Slovakian Hungarian prose","authors":"Gabriella Petres Csizmadia","doi":"10.1556/044.2020.00004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/044.2020.00004","url":null,"abstract":"In my study I deal with the transcultural liteary-spacial position of contemporary Slovakian Hungarian prose. I have selected the works for interpretation from the representative writings of the last five years (Katarina Durica: Szlovákul szeretni [To love in Slovak]. Libri, Budapest, 2016; Anikó N. Tóth: Szabad ez a hely? [Is this seat free?]. Pesti Kallgiram Kft., Budapest, 2017; Pál Száz: Fűje sarjad mezőknek [Grass grows on meadows]. Pesti Kalligram Kft., Budapest, 2017). Due to their diversity in genre, language and subject, these works provide a cross-section of contemporary Slovakian Hungarian prose. The peculiarity of the corpus is that it reflects on the hibridity, inter- and multiculturalism typical for Central-European literature (cf. Welsch, 1999), and it also demonstrates translocality, multiculturalism, multilingualism and the experience of using multiple language varieties.","PeriodicalId":35072,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44181668","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research at the Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Literary Science in Nitra","authors":"Ildikó Vančo","doi":"10.1556/044.2020.00001","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/044.2020.00001","url":null,"abstract":"The present-day Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Literary Science at the Faculty of Central European Studies at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra was formed in 1960 under the name Department of Hungarian Language and Literature. It was established as the only independent department of the Hungarian Section of the Pedagogical Institute. The existence and work of the department have been closely interrelated with the political and legal situation of Slovakia’s Hungarians and its impact on Slovakia Hungarian teacher training. Since its formation, the Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Literary Science has seen Hungarian teacher training as one of its most important missions. In recent years, however, the range of programs offered by the Institute grew considerably, in an effort to meet societal demands, and some of its more prominent goals include the training of professionals of cultural life and public administration in their mother tongue (cf. http://www.umjl.fss.ukf.sk/?lang5hu). Right from the outset, scholarly activities of the lecturers of the Institute have specialized in two fields: linguistics and literary studies. Research has focused on various aspects of bilingualism, as well as the language, culture, and literature of Slovakian Hungarians. Literary scholarship at the department/institute has always included research on (Czecho) Slovakian Hungarian literature, augmented in the past two decades with topics of general literary scholarship. Literary scholars at the Institute specialize, among other topics, on popular literature (Kriszti an Benyovszky (see e.g. 2016, 2019)), contemporary Hungarian literature (Anik o N. T oth, 2013, 2020), including child and youth literature (Gabriella Petres Csizmadia, 2015), but research is also carried out on theoretical and historical aspects of minority Hungarian literature (Zs ofia B arczi, 2008, 2014), on the genres of autobiography (Gabriella Petres Csizmadia, 2014), the interconnectedness of gender and literature, and methodological aspects","PeriodicalId":35072,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41519715","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A comparative study of reading comprehension skills among Hungarian students in Hungary and Slovakia","authors":"Ildikó Vančo, Viktória Gergelyová","doi":"10.1556/044.2020.00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/044.2020.00011","url":null,"abstract":"The present study aims to map the reading comprehension skills of the primary school students in Hungary and Slovakia and to see what differences there are in the reading habits, self-assessment and actual performance in reading comprehension between the two groups.A total of 240 survey respondents from the two countries and belonging to two age groups participated in this phase of research. The survey consisted of two parts. The first part was a self-completed questionnaire consisting of 23 questions, in which the students' sociological background, language use, reading habits, and subjective opinions related to the assessment of reading comprehension skills were assessed. The second part was a reading comprehension test, which consisted of three sets of texts and questions adapted to the cognitive abilities of the two age groups.An analysis of the answers shows that there is no significant difference between the self-evaluation of students in the two countries regarding their reading comprehension skills. There is however a difference between the reading habits of Hungarian students in Hungary vs. in Slovakia in both age groups, and a significant difference between the results of the reading comprehension test in the groups of students from the two countries.","PeriodicalId":35072,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48787719","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Attempts at creating a new concept of literature •","authors":"Zsófia Bárczi","doi":"10.1556/044.2020.00002","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/044.2020.00002","url":null,"abstract":"Using the term Hungarian literature in (Czecho-)Slovakia has been a problem for literary historiography specialised on reflecting on this corpus since the emergence of minority Hungarian literatures defined by geopolitics. Since the twenties onwards, the texts of the belletristic corpus have been asking, from time to time, about the relationships among space and identity, and providing answers from approaches heroic to ironic. The relationships of identity and space are reflected vigorously not only in belletristic representations but in the literary criticism that reflects on them and in literary historiography as well. In my study, I am going to follow the process having taken place in the literary-historical narrative between the two World Wars, which aimed to transform the geopolitical factors associated with identity into a constructed space through articulating the experience of intermediacy and reflecting on the “as-if” state of the intercultural existence of Hungarian literature in Slovakia.","PeriodicalId":35072,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44499553","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A receding paradigm as a tool of language discrimination","authors":"István Kozmács","doi":"10.1556/044.2020.00010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/044.2020.00010","url":null,"abstract":"The 1Sg forms of ik-verbs are identical in the definite and indefinite conjugations in Standard Hungarian. The use of nonstandard forms can evoke discrimination despite the fact that it has been well-known for a long time that by the 18th century the ik-paradigm survived only in some eastern and western dialects of the language (Simonyi, 1906a, p. 14; Brassai, 2011, p. 253; Benkő, 1992, p. 213). In the early 19th century the language revival movement revived the disappearing ik-conjugation (Révai, 1806) and made it part of the educated, literary, and later standard variety.The present paper demonstrates how a paradigm that almost completely receded became the tool of language stigmatization as a result of the actions of those with linguistic power, and shows, on the basis of a questionnaire based study, to what extent the ik-paradigm is present in the language use of 14–19-year-olds at the beginning of the 21st century.","PeriodicalId":35072,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43487728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Digital methods in researching Slovakia Hungarian regional dialects","authors":"Károly Presinszky","doi":"10.1556/044.2020.00009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/044.2020.00009","url":null,"abstract":"This study overviews the most recent digital methods used in Slovakia Hungarian dialectology. Slovakia Hungarian dialectology started out by using the most modern digital methods in 2010 at Nitra/Nyitra university, creating regional dialect databases, first for the Žitný ostrov/Csallóköz region and then for the whole Slovakia Hungarian dialect region. Recording and processing data has been carried out with the help of the Bihalbocs software developed by Domokos Vékás and Fruzsina Sára Vargha in Hungary. The present paper first provides an overview of digital methods in dialectology and its results for Hungarian dialects, and then summarizes the results of the Nitra/Nyitra team so far, illustrating the diversity of digitized dialectological data. It discusses the findings of publications reporting on the results of this research, including maps showing the geographical and social distribution of linguistic phenomena and acoustic phonetic analyses of data aligned with sound files. Important output of this research also includes recently published audiobooks of Slovakia Hungarian dialects. The paper outlines further avenues of research based on the most recent findings.","PeriodicalId":35072,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Studies","volume":"136 1-2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41297874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The “we” vs. “they” distinction in Slovakia Hungarians' discourse","authors":"Ildikó Vančo","doi":"10.1556/044.2020.00007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/044.2020.00007","url":null,"abstract":"Linguistic differentiation is a basic component of sociocultural differentiation: social processes create the social and linguistic meanings of variants, sometimes also contributing to language change through discourse processes. In addition to being continuously constructed, discourse is in a dialectic relationship with extra-discursive factors and can therefore be studied only when embedded in its social and linguistic contexts (cf. Fairclough 2010: 3–5, Laihonen 2009). In this article I investigate how the notion of “we” occurs in the metalinguistic discourse of Hungarian speakers in Slovakia (with reference to Slovakia Hungarians and their Hungarian language use) (cf. Kontra 2006) in contrast with the notion of “they” (with reference to Hungary Hungarians and their Hungarian language use) in lay speakers' utterances referring to language. The study reported on in this article uses directed interviews and employs discourse analysis to provide insight into the use of “we” vs. “they” and their meanings in the Slovakia Hungarian variety. It also seeks to show how certain expressions become indexical in conceptualizations of identity and how the distinction of “we” vs. “they” is created by language.","PeriodicalId":35072,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-02-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49361802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"REAKTIONEN DER UNGARISCHEN PRESSE AUF DIE BÜCHERVERBRENNUNGEN IN DEUTSCHLAND 1933","authors":"Péter Lőkös","doi":"10.1556/044.2019.33.2.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/044.2019.33.2.3","url":null,"abstract":"Die Ereignisse der Bücherverbrennungen in Deutschland riefen in vielen Ländern ein großes Presseecho hervor. Die Reaktionen der ausländischen Presse auf dieses Ereignis wurde in mehreren Aufsätzen untersucht, die Untersuchung der Reaktionen der ungarischen Presse war aber bisher ein Desiderat der Forschung. Die vorliegende Studie gibt einen umfassenden Überblick über das Presseecho im Horthy-Ungarn.","PeriodicalId":35072,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43953923","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"DEN HOLOCAUST BEZEUGEN: KERTÉSZ, LEVI UND DER BLINDE FLECK DER KRITIK","authors":"DES. Thomas Emmrich","doi":"10.1556/044.2019.33.2.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/044.2019.33.2.4","url":null,"abstract":"Das Sprechen über den Holocaust treibt die Ausdrucksfähigkeit der Sprache an die Grenze zum Unsagbaren. Mit Primo Levis Ist das ein Mensch? Ein autobiographischer Bericht und Imre Kertész’ Roman eines Schicksallosen sollen zwei unterschiedliche Modelle des Sprechens über den Genozid, der Zeugenschaft und der Kritik gegenübergestellt werden. Während Levis Kritik explizit moralisch begründet ist, i. e. sich an der binären Leitdifferenz von „gut“ und „böse“ orientiert, basiert diejenige von Kertész auf den für eine Kritik am Holocaust inadäquaten Kriterien von Effizienz, Ästhetik sowie Lustökonomie. Zum einen soll dargelegt werden, dass Kertész trotz der verstörenden Abwehr moralischer Wertungen auf der Inhaltsebene des Romans jene klandestin auf der erzählperspektivischen und performativen durchaus zur Geltung bringt. Obzwar sich gravierende Unterschiede zwischen Levis Ist das ein Mensch? und Kertész’ Roman eines Schicksallosen ergeben, gilt es zum anderen zu rekonstruieren, dass beide literarische Konzepte der Zeugenschaft und der Kritik unzureichend und unvollständig bleiben müssen. Der Holocaust suspendiert nicht nur die Souveränität der Sprache, sondern zeugt auch von der Aporie der Zeugenschaft und der Kritik.","PeriodicalId":35072,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41381616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"THE RECOGNITION OF ISLAM IN THE HUNGARIAN LAW OF 1916 (XVII): DOCUMENTS FROM THE VATICAN ARCHIVES","authors":"O. Varsányi","doi":"10.1556/044.2019.33.2.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1556/044.2019.33.2.9","url":null,"abstract":"This article aims to reconstruct the reception of Act XVII adopted by the Hungarian Parliament in 1916, which brought about the legal recognition of Islam, from the stance of the Holy See of Rome. The research is based on archival material preserved at the Vatican Archives, namely letters exchanged between the Nunziature of Vienna and the Holy See, which are published and translated here. The presentation of so far unpublished material provides an opportunity to follow the growing understanding of the contents and background of this law; the key points of interest of the Catholic Church in this matter are identified; while lexical references seek to shed light on the perceptions of Islam.","PeriodicalId":35072,"journal":{"name":"Hungarian Studies","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46532420","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}