Kontaktushatások vizsgálata a kárpátaljai diákok nyelvhasználatában

Abstract

The study presents the language use patterns of students of Transcarpathian colleges and universities and of students studying in different vocational training institutions. In the everyday language use of Transcarpathian Hungarian people, borrowed words from Slavic languages often occur, as the Ukrainian state language and the Russian language have an impact on the mother tongue of local minorities, in this case on Hungarian. This study examines the extent to which students in Transcarpathia know the meaning of Slavic loanwords. A total of 63 participants solved different tasks in a questionnaire survey (picture description, substitution of loanwords with Hungarian loanwords, multiple choice, word finding by definition, list of loanwords). Results show that the majority of young people in Transcarpathia know the meaning of Slavic lexical loanwords, but due to their mother tongue dominance they prefer the Hungarian equivalents. The only exceptions to this are culture-specific terms.