Language ideologies in Hungarian language counselling interactions
Language ideologies in Hungarian language counselling interactions

Summary/Abstract: Discourses concerning language have ideological aspects in both scholarly and everyday scenes. This study examines the language ideologies in the Hungarian language counselling discourses in relation to the Language Management Theory. This paper analyses the questions and answers received by the linguistic counselling service of the Research Institute for Linguistics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, especially regarding ideologies that are concerned with the roles of linguists and linguistic counsellors and also dictionaries and their codification. The analysis shows how the popular approach to language is dominated by the standard language ideology, while replies given by counsellors have sometimes contradicting ideologies (i.e. descriptive vs prescriptive).

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