Page 113 [113]
ABSTRACIS
me
CSILLA ILONA DÉR
About language user attitudes related to independent
(insubordinated) clauses
1he study examines the opinions of language users regarding independent
clauses starting with the conjunction hogy ’that’ (e.g. Hogy te milyen csinos vagy!
"How pretty you are!’). These clauses can serve as a breeding ground for linguistic
ideologies due to their behavior that contradicts the common syntactic rules and
their basically pragmatic roles.
I have conducted a focus group interview among university students studying
teaching of Hungarian as a foreign language. According to the results, these
native speakers of Hungarian know most of the insubordinated forms and
categories well, and only in a few cases did they come to different opinions about
them. They have a complex knowledge about the different variants, even though
they did not come across the subject of insubordination during their linguistics
training. Some variants are only slightly stigmatized, rather they are associated
with certain genres or registers (mainly with colloquial language), and as spoken
language turns, certain forms of them would be taught even at elementary level.
DANIEL FARKAS
The establishment of diplomatic relations between Bolivia and Hungary,
1952-1953
The article aims to outline the circumstances and process of the establishment of
diplomatic relations between Bolivia and Hungary over the course of 1952-1953.
This relationship was an example of a classic Cold War diplomatic game, where
Bolivia established relations with this small Eastern Bloc country to widen his
maneouvering ground and bargaining power in the face of the United States.
* 111 +