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Hungarian–South Slavic film relations: An introduction
Views:232This study is an introduction to a larger work on Hungarian and Southern Slavic film relations. After reviewing the theoretical and conceptual considerations, the paper attempts to interpret the concepts of national film and transnational film, and it also outlines the types of Hungarian–Slovenian, Hungarian–Croatian, and Hungarian–Serbian film relations. Thus, from the Southern Slavic community, the study focuses on Slovenian, Croatian, and Serbian culture and film. Films from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria and Northern Macedonia, and their Hungarian dimensions are also referenced, but the primary focus is the film culture of the three countries neighboring Hungary.
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Books have their own fate…: Gregor, Ferenc: A szlovák nyelv magyar elemei [The Hungarian elements of the Slovak language]. Budapest, Kairosz Kiadó, 2023, pp. 953. ISBN: 978-963-514157-9
Views:168Ferenc Gregor, the most prominent Hungarian researcher of the Slovak language, did not live to see the publication of his magnum opus. The present review has two goals: on the one hand, to commemorate an outstanding scholar who persevered on his own path in the pursuit of scholarly value, accepting all the difficulties of a lonely struggle, and whose efforts were crowned with success, albeit posthumously, thanks to the next generation of scholars; and, on the other hand, to draw attention to the significant linguistic and cultural influence that Hungarian dialects have had on the language of the Slovaks living in the northern region of the historical Kingdom of Hungary. This influence manifested itself in several waves and in several geographical regions and took on different thematic characteristics depending on the historical situation. Using a wide range of written sources, Ferenc Gregor identified nearly 1,000 Hungarian lexemes in the vocabulary of local variants of the Slovak language. Since Gregor accurately documented all cases where the Hungarian words in question also entered other Slavic languages of the Carpathian Basin, his work is significant not only for its outstanding value in contact linguistics, but also from an areal linguistic perspective.
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A Possible Slavic Etymology of Hungarian kullancs ’tick’
9 p.Views:245The present article is dedicated to the etymology of the Hungarian noun kullancs ”клещ (lat. Ixodes ricinus)”. The Slavic origin of the word was assumed in the 19th century, however this idea was rejected in the 20th century owing to phonetic reseasons. After a short overview of the history of the research of this word, arguments are lined up in favour of the fact that the phonetic difficulties can be ignored or at least taken as irrelevant when comparing the Hungarian word kullancs with its Slavic equivalents. Therefore, it is inevitable to raise the question of its Slavic origin again.
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Cultural Policy of Russia and Hungary: Modern Discourse and New Actors
11 p.Views:348The authors of the article argue that contemporary cultural policy discourse is in the focus
of attention of scientific communities, social and political organizations and government institutions.
It represents a sort of symbolic struggle and nominations and has necessitated a
new approach to cultural policy structuring. The article shows that this necessity is demonstrated
by the development of cooperation between Russia and Hungary in terms of cultural
sectors and cultural heritage. Expert communities and non-governmental organizations are
becoming significant elements in the structure of cultural policy subjects. The association
“For Hungarian-Russian cooperation named after Leo Tolstoy” has become such a key issue.
The authors of this article attempt to highlight the most essential contemporary issues in
the sphere of cultural policy in general and in relation of two separate countries – Russia and
Hungary – through the scientific project “Hygiene of culture”.