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This book comprises 19 chapters that deal with Hungarian as a pluricentric language in language and literature. It is the first comprehensive publication of its kind and It contains works on both the linguistic and literary aspects of the pluricentricity of the Hungarian language. The authors come from five countries: Hungary, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine. They give an overview of the pluricentricity of Hungarian, its identity function and the many effects of the pluricentricity in terminology, toponyms and family names as well as about problems in language education. The pluricentricity of literary language and language contact is described in detail. This book is the ninth volume published by the "International Working Group on non-dominant varie-ties of pluricentric languages."
List of contents
I Hungarian as a pluricentric language
II The effects of pluricentricity on administrative terminology, toponyms and family names
III Contact phenomena and use of features of regional varieties in the national varieties of Hungarian
IV Pluricentricity in Hungarian language education
V Pluricentricity in Hungarian literature
About the author
Dr. habil. Ildikó Van¿o, PhD, and Dr. habil. István Kozmács, PhD, are fac-ulty members of the Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Literary Science at Constantine the Philosopher University in Nitra, Slovakia.
Prof. Dr. Rudolf Muhr is the head of the Austrian German Research Centre in Graz and the coordinator of the International Working Group on Non-dominant Varieties of Pluricentric Languages (WGNDV).
Máté Huber is a PhD student at the English Applied Linguistics PhD pro-gram at the Institute of English and American Studies of the University of Szeged, Hungary.
