This book is about how the inhabitants of a multilingual Hungarian settlement communicate with each other, and what effect this has on their language skills, their thinking about languages, their relationships with each other, and their daily lives. The presented settlement is Geresdlak, a German village in Baranya county. In addition to the ethnic population of the community, its diversity is also due to the fact that after the change of regime, first Germans, and then Finns from the beginning of the 2000s, bought a large number of properties in the settlement, who spend up to several months a year in their new homes. Based on the results of the author's sociolinguistic doctoral research based on fieldwork, the volume provides a multifaceted picture of the linguistic everyday life of the settlement. You can read about why the Finns choose Geresdlak, the Hungarian Tuscany, how locals and foreigners creatively converse with each other in several languages ​​at the same time, for example at a joint dinner, or what role different languages ​​play in the village's highly successful gastronomic festival held annually. . The book provides a colorful analysis of the settlement for linguists interested in the current issues of multilingualism, social researchers investigating the boundary between tourism and migration, and all readers interested in the everyday life of small villages in Hungary and the past and present of the German nationality. BORBÁLA PACHNÉ HELTAI graduated from the Faculty of Arts of ELTE with Hungarian, German and Finnish majors, and in 2017 obtained a doctorate in linguistics from the same institution. His research areas include community multilingualism, the language use of the German nationality in Hungary, and issues of the relationship between language and school.

L'Harmattan For Rent
Social science
284 pages
Binding: cardboard
ISBN: 9789634146506
Author: Borbála Heltai
Release year: 2020