Máramaros népe, nemzetiségei a helyi újságírói diskurzusban (1865–1874)
Aspects of Journalistic Discourses about Rurality in the 19th Century Hungarian Provincial Press. The Case of Máramaros.

Summary/Abstract: Rapid changes in social realities during the 19th century have led to an increased interest in observing and studying them. Newspapers, magazines, calendars and other periodicals have been instrumental in consolidating and disseminating discourses and visual forms about the social world (urban and folk cultures). However, journalism and commercial print have been mostly ignored as constitutive contexts of social knowledge production. This study sets out to investigate how the Máramaros, an emerging Hungarian provincial political newspaper framed rurality in the second half of the 19th century. It considers the first and most influential newspaper edited and printed in Máramarossziget/Sighetu Marmației. The region was located formerly in the north-eastern part of the Austro- Hungarian Empire, nowadays is extended through the territories of Romania and Ukraine. Based on a thematic and discourse analysis of a sample of the news and other genres published between 1865 and 1874, this study reveals in what ways was newspaper production engaged in forming and reinforcing aspects of social imaginary about rurality and what categories were engaged in journalistic writing in defining provincial/rural life and customs. Considering the journalistic discourses in a broader context, the research also investigates how newspaper rhetoric has figured into some broader political and cultural debates and traditions.

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