A nyelvi identitás mint lehetséges társadalmi konfliktusforrás Kelet-Közép-Európában
Linguistic Identity as a Potential Source of Social Conflict in East-Central Europe

Summary/Abstract: The study seeks to answer the question of how the emergence and primacy of linguistic identity provokes reactions in majority and minority societies, based on examples from Central and Eastern European countries and related to the Hungarian language. To do this, I briefly review certain elements of local and cultural identity, highlighting the linguistic features that are present but do not play a central role. An important element of identity is the use of names, which plays an increasingly important role as linguistic identity comes to the fore. In many cases, linguistic identity only gains meaning in relation to others, potentially leading to linguistic inequality, discrimination, and indirectly to conflicts, disputes, and even aggression rooted in language.

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