A new book on the present and future of Hungarian
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2018.2.129Keywords:
Hungarian language community, situation of Hungarian in Eastern Central Europe, language and language use, social embeddedness of language, Hungarian language strategyAbstract
A recently published volume entitled ‘The present and future of Hungarian’ represents a novel approach to the history of the recent past of this language, its current situation, and its foreseeable future. The novelty of the approach primarily comes from a consistently applied functionalist perspective, considering language to be an entity that is undetachable from language use and from the community of language users. It is also due to this perspective that the discussion is multi- and interdisciplinary in nature, involving a number of interrelated disciplines. The authors depict major events and characteristics of this language in their broadest possible social embeddedness and successfully pinpoint the areas that appear to be the most salient with respect to the future and competitiveness of Hungarian, as seen from the perspective of its present state.
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