This paper deals with one of the language ideologies that are used to stigmatize formal style – language nonformalism, based on quotations from two representative publications of traditional Hungarian language cultivation, the Nyelvművelő k...
1. Introduction Just like anywhere else in the world, also in Slovakia, the language users or whole language communities face numerous bigger or smaller language problems. The project called “Language and Communication Problems in Slovakia ...
The paper analyses the Hungarian language cultivators’ arguments against the use (even existence!) of light verb constructions, shedding light on the underlying language ideologies such as language purism, redundantism, systemism, brevism, ...
This paper examines light verb constructions, with special regard to the borderline cases, i.e. verbo-nominal constructions, which may or may not be analyzed as light verb constructions. It analyses the possible meanings of the light verbs—...
In my paper I deal with the question of how some of the existing Hungarian Bible translations could be developed into different types of translations aimed for different audiences and designed to fulfil partly different functions. In the fi...
In my paper I deal with language management activities aimed at the standardization of a language. As an introduction I present three concepts of the “standard” (standard as an ideal variety, standard as a dialect, standard as an ideologica...
The paper deals with the 20th and 21st century revisions of Károli Gáspár’s New Testament, from the point of view of linguistics and translation. It is based on a long-term research program, in which the linguistic forms found in the 20th a...
A magyar nyelv szlovákiai változataiban található koiné jellegű, vagyis az egész szlovákiai magyar nyelvterületen használatos, az 1918 utáni uralomváltás után bekerült kölcsönszavakkal számos tanulmány és szakcikk foglalkozik (a hivatkozáso...
The paper deals with three grievous language problems, which have been present in the community of Hungarians in Slovakia for a long time and which will probably persist in the future, although they do not seem to be unsolvable. The problem...
In this paper the author continues with what he has been dealing with in the previous two issues of this journal: language problems. This time he presents the various strategies of treating language problems in general, with special ...