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ATTILA T. SZABÓ AND THE SOCIETY OF HUNGARIAN LINGUISTS

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Eder Z.

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language)

2006

vol. 102

issue 3

262-269

This talk concerns the friendship of Attila T. Szabó with Dezso Pais, a scholar who determined the intellectual atmosphere of the Society for decades. Dezso Pais, professor of linguistics at the university of Budapest, legendary editor of the 'Hungarian Language', a prominent figure of the Budapest school of linguistics, became aware of the work of the young Transylvanian linguist rather early on. In the thirties, he was one of the first to publish Szabó's articles in the journal of the Society, and to aid his professional development with good advice and personal encouragement. During his stays in Budapest, Attila T. Szabó actively participated at the meetings of the Society, and made the acquaintance of the members of 'Kruzhok', a fraternity of linguists. After the Second World War, in the first decades of the communist regime, direct personal contacts between Hungarian scholars living in Romania and those living in Hungary became impossible. In those years, Pais and Szabó had to rest content with exchanging personal letters. The talk presents interesting details of those precious documents of the history of Hungarian linguistics.

A HUNDRED YEARS OF THE 'HUNGARIAN LANGUAGE' (1905-2004)

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Eder Z.

Magyar Nyelv (Hungarian Language)

2005

vol. 101

issue 4

385-406

As the 'Hungarian Language' is the journal of the Society of Hungarian Linguistics, its history is interwoven with that of the Society. And since the activities of the Society practically coincide with Hungarian linguistics in the twentieth century, its journal is a true representation of the results and vicissitudes of those one hundred years. The author glances over the process whereby the journal originally meant to serve the general public gradually turned into a scholarly organ; specifically, a high-standard professional forum of Hungarian linguistics. He divides the history of the 'Hungarian Language' into two periods, 1905 to 1949 and 1949 to 2004. He points out that, in the first half of the century, the journal was the home of historical linguistics, notably that of what is known as the Budapest School. In the second half of the century, in response to the demands of the period, it opened its pages for descriptive linguistics, thereby making the proportions of those two disciplines more balanced; and in the past twenty-five years, it has been offering a large scope to several current trends of linguistics with widely diverse convictions. The appendix presents the interested reader with an annotated chronology of the work of the successive editors of the journal, on the basis of contemporary declarations and documents.

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ATTILA T. SZABÓ AND THE SOCIETY OF HUNGARIAN LINGUISTS

A HUNDRED YEARS OF THE 'HUNGARIAN LANGUAGE' (1905-2004)