Research
topic I
E U R O P E A N C U L T U R E — H U N G A R I A N C U L T U R E
Hungary’s relationship to the culture of the most important countries of the az European Union after World War II (1945–1981)
The research seeks an answer to the question as to how Hungarian
culture has been connected to European culture since the time when
the idea of a European Union first appeared, and what connections
Hungarian culture endeavours to establish with the leading nations of
the EU. In the course of our research we wish to reveal the history
of Hungary’s connections with France, Austria, Germany,
England, Sweden, Italy and Finland. We intend to show what efforts
Hungary, with its new democratic system, made in 1945 to establish
cultural and scientific links with France, Austria, Great Britain,
Germany, Switzerland, Sweden, Italy and Finland. We study the
relationships of the various fields of Hungarian culture, science and
philosophy to mainstream European culture, science, and also arts,
music and literature.
An important objective of the research programme is to show what
changes took place in Hungary’s cultural diplomacy after the
Communists came into power and the cold war began. It is shown that
Hungary’s cultural orientation became unilateral, and the
country suspended her cultural relations with the western world for
almost two decades.
Hungarian culture has deep European roots, and did not cease to be European even during the years of the cold war. We also wish to analyze the connections of Hungarian culture to the rest of Europe in the first period of the détente.
In spite of the short period of time that has elapsed since the change of the political system, we intend to deal with cultural and scientific connections between Hungary and the rest of Europe since the change of the political system in Hungary.
Academic staff participating in the research
Schedule:
1998: gathering material from domestic and foreign periodicals and books
1999: processing the material, writing studies
2000: synthesis, editing and publishing a volume
Research topic 2
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O L I T I C A L A N D D I P L O M A T I C
T E R M I N O L O G Y A N D P H R A S E O L O
G Y
(in English, French, German, Italian, Finn, Hungarian and Russian languages)
Analysing the Hungarian, German, English, French and Russian translations of political and diplomatic texts produced in the languages of the European Union with the methods of applied linguistics. Studying linguistics concord in these texts, producing studies and essays in liguistics, lexicography, lexicology, semantics and morpho-syntaxis. Publishing the studies in a monographic volume.
Analysing diplomatic
terminology and phraseology of the English, French, German, Italian,
Finn, Hungarian and Russian languages, based on language corpora
consisting of official EU documents. — The research is to be
extended to functional tendencies within the languages concerned
(lexicalization, syntagmatization, morpho-syntactic features) and to
stylistic questions.
The research largely relies on the results of domestic and foreign
lexicography, contrastive abnalyses and dictionary writing. —
The novelty of the research is that experts, whose mother tongue is
Hungarian but who all speak 2-3 foreign languages, perform research
into an area that is extremely important today: the language of
politics, and within that, diplomacy.
Academic staff participating in the research
Schedule: :
1998: professional consultations with domestic and foreign
linguists, translators, EU-diplomats and other professionals,
1999: continuing library work, further consukltation with foreign
experts if necessary, and study trips to the Institutes of
Interpreter and Translator Training in Vienna and Brussels
2000: editing and publishing the studies