TÖBBNYELVŰSÉG A VAJDASÁGI MAGYAR SAJTÓBAN
MULTILINGUALISM IN THE HUNGARIAN PRESS IN VOJVODINA

Author(s): Julianna Ispánovics Csapó
Subject(s): Media studies, Ethnic Minorities Studies
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: multilingualism; Hungarian newspapers; bilingual papers; Serbian population;
Summary/Abstract: The beginning of publishing Hungarian newspapers goes back to 1848. The turbulent historical, political, and social changes have not been able to hinder the continuity of the local periodicals. The characteristic feature of the period in the history of the press, which started in 1945, was the bilingual (Hungarian–Serbo–Croat) periodicals. The slowly developing privatization in the 1990s encouraged the founding of newspapers/periodicals. Next to the bilingual papers, some multilingual editions became also published. However, newspapers/periodicals do not always present Hungarian culture in satisfactory proportion; they do not provide satisfactorily detailed information to the Hungarian population in the minority, or even sometimes in the majority, in their mother tongue as it would be adequate to their proportion in the town/village. In the reverse situation, when the Serbian population is in the minority, the picture is much more satisfactory.

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