Culture in language: Bilingualism and identity in The Poems of American – Hungarian Poets
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https://doi.org/10.31074/gyntf.2022.2.308.322Keywords:
bilingualism, biculturalism, emigration, identity, acculturation strategiesAbstract
Today, when there is a revival of examining and understanding bilingualism, we often conduct research on bilingual education while scrutinizing the effect of the phenomenon on the individual and the society. Most research aims to highlight how a foreign language can be acquired and how it forms a ‘bilingual pair’ with L1. However, there is less exploration into the other direction, i.e., how L1 behaves in a foreign context and how identity is re-structured in a new setting. It is not only a linguistic but a social question as well that can especially be reflected in literary works. This year, when we celebrate the sixty-sixth anniversary of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution, this paper intends to commemorate the many poets who emigrated to foreign countries as a result of this conflict by examining aspects of their language usage and cultural identity.
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