TY - JOUR AU - Borbely, Anna PY - 2011/12/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Languages and language varieties: Comparative research on the linguistic attitudes in four bilingual minority communities in Hungary JF - Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics JA - ESUKA-JEFUL VL - 2 IS - 1 SE - Articles DO - 10.12697/jeful.2011.2.1.03 UR - https://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/jeful.2011.2.1.03 SP - 41-56 AB - <p><span style="left: 214.56px; top: 249.86px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00381);">A central issue of this paper is to study the patterns in</span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 269.779px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.01323);">variation of attitudes toward minority language varieties in four </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 289.819px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.996702);">minority communities from Hungary: German, Slovak, Serb and </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 309.859px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.987278);">Romanian. This study takes part from the research which focuses </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 329.778px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.990416);">on how to obtain significant information about the mechanism of </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 349.818px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.973676);">the language shift process concerning autochthonous minorities in </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 369.859px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(1.00899);">Hungary. The results demonstrate that in the course of language </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 389.778px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.970814);">shift communities at an advanced stage of language shift have less </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 409.818px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.971632);">positive attitudes toward their minority languages than individuals </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 429.858px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.957456);">from communities where language shift is in a less advanced stage. </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 449.777px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.977924);">In Hungarian minority groups speakers’ attitudes toward minority </span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 469.817px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.996367);">language varieties (dialect vs. standard) are the</span><span style="left: 485.039px; top: 469.817px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.961278);"> symptoms</span><span style="left: 561.84px; top: 469.817px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.988329);"> of lan</span><span style="left: 141.72px; top: 489.858px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.955759);">guage shift.</span><span style="left: 227.28px; top: 529.817px; font-size: 18.3333px; font-family: serif; transform: scaleX(0.992158);"><br></span></p> ER -