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PARTICIPANTS
PARTICIPANTS
In the course of 2007 and 2008, 39 Hungarian-Americans were interviewed.
When selecting the participants, Ágnes Bolonyai and I tried to rely on the
results of a previous sociolinguistic survey conducted by Bolonyai in 2007
among 78 members of the Hungarian-American community in North Carolina
(unpublished source). The subjects were selected with a view to getting a
representative sample of the North Carolina Hungarian Club.
In the data, all subjects were assigned with a code referring to their
generational affiliation (G1 or G2), to their gender (male — M or female — F), to
how much time they have spent in the US since the date of their immigrating,
and to their age at the time of the interview.
The majority of the interviewees regularly attend the events of the Hungarian
club in North Carolina or are closely affiliated to it. Also, there are some
interviewees who are the founding members of another Hungarian club —
‘Meet-up’ - in Elkin, NC, but occasionally attend the ‘big’ Hungarian club in
Durham, North Carolina. Most interviewees live in the Raleigh-Durham-Cary
research triangle, North Carolina, two families (5 subjects) live in Elkin, three
other in Greensboro, NC, and one subject lives in Fayetteville, NC. Of the
subjects, 9 are second-, and 30 are first-generation speakers. A more elaborate
profile of subjects can be found in Chapter 7.
Table 18: The codes assigned to subjects
Time spent Age (at time
Codes Generation Gender in the USA of the
(years) interview )
G1M17,37 1 M 17 37
G1F17,48 1 F 17 48
G1F20,40 1 F 20 40
G1M22,55 1 M 22 55
G1F18,53 1 F 18 53
G1F59,82 1 F 59 82
G1M52,78 1 M 52 78
G1M27,50 1 M 27 50
G1M52,69 1 M 52 69
G1F48,65 1 F 48 65
G1F8,35 1 F 8 35
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