Publications

Publication details [#55010]

Straszer, Boglárka. 2011. Embracing Hungarian: top-down emancipation of an immigrant language in Finland. International Journal of the Sociology of Language 2011 (209) : 75–90.

Publication type

Article in journal

Publication language

English

Keywords

culture | education | emancipatory linguistics | immigrant | language attitude

Language as a subject

Hungarian

Place, Publisher

De Gruyter

Journal WWW

www.degruyter.com/journal/key/IJSL/html

Annotation

This study focuses on the situation of immigrant Hungarians and the Hungarian language status in Finland and discusses the relevance of language emancipation in this context. The situation of Hungarian in Finland is particular compared with other immigrant languages, as Hungarian was part of the Finnish nationalist language emancipation.