Urban dialectology in Hungary: The Budapest Sociolinguistic Interview and the Szeged Sociolinguistic Interview projects Cover Image

Városi dialektológia Magyarországon: BUSZI ÉS SZÖSZI
Urban dialectology in Hungary: The Budapest Sociolinguistic Interview and the Szeged Sociolinguistic Interview projects

Author(s): Miklós Kontra
Subject(s): Language studies
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Новом Саду
Keywords: urban dialectology; sociolinguistic interview; linguistic variation and change; Budapest Sociolinguistic Interview; Szeged Sociolinguistic Interview

Summary/Abstract: Urban dialectology began with William Labov’s work in New York City in the 1960s. In Hungary, such research began in the mid-1980s in the Linguistics Institute of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences. 50 sociolinguistic interviews were conducted in 1987, then 200 more in the next two years. Transcription, coding, checking, and building databases were completed as late as 2008. In this paper I touch on theoretical and methodological issues and survey some results published in Tanulmányok a budapesti beszédről ’Studies on Budapest speech’ (Budapest: Gondolat Kiadó, 2021). Some methodological issues and results of the Szeged Sociolinguistic Interview project, conducted in 2013‒2016, are also discussed.

  • Issue Year: 23/2022
  • Issue No: 3
  • Page Range: 1-12
  • Page Count: 12
  • Language: Hungarian
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