Fenyvesi, Anna

Associate Professor, Director of Institute
Office location: 3311 Arts Faculty
Office phone: +36-62-544262
Email:
Personal website: http://www.staff.u-szeged.hu/~fenyvesi

• Degrees:
  • 1987 MA in English with specialization in American studies, József Attila University, Szeged
  • 1988 MA in Russian, József Attila University, Szeged
  • 1994 MA in General Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh
  • 1998 PhD in General Linguistics, University of Pittsburgh

• Areas of competence: sociolinguistics, bilingualism, language contact, general linguistics

• Areas of specialization: the bilingualism of Hungarian-Americans, Hungarian language contact
  I did my PhD studies at the University of Pittsburgh (USA), where as a PhD student I taught Hungarian to American students and also worked as an editorial assistant for the LSA’s journal Language (1992–1995). In my over 20 years of teaching, I have taught at the University of Szeged as well as abroad (University of Pittsburgh, USA; Portland State University, USA; Joensuu University, Finland). I was a recipient of the Bolyai research grant in 1998-1999. I have been acting as the president of the Linguistic Committee of the Szeged Section of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences since 2006. Currently I serve as the Hungarian partner and head of the University of Szeged research team in the linguistic research project LINEE (Languages in a Network of European Excellence), funded by the EU’s FP6 grant for 4 years (2006–2010), and carried out by a 9-member interneational consortium of European universities.

• Research interests and work in progress:
  I have done research on the bilingualism of Hungarian-Americans, edited a book on Hungarian language contact outside of Hungary, and am currently working as a researcher, Work Package leader and Hungarian partner in the EU funded linguistic research project LINEE (Languages in a Network of European Excellence), studying multilingualism in Europe.

• Publications: Download list of publications

• Past theses supervised:
  • BA:
  • Gergely Gabriella “The effect of language contact on Hungarian language use in Vojvodina: The use of Serbian borrowings and their recognition” (2008)
  • Gyeviki Henrietta “English-Hungarian Bilingualism of Hungarian Immigrants and their Descendants in Los Angeles” (2008)
  • Nagy Anikó “Contemporary Hungarian slang usage: English loanwords in Hungarian young people’s speech” (2008)
  • MA:
  • Kiss Ágnes “Hungarian-American bilingualism: Evidence for language contact phenomena in Hungarian-American scout homepages” (2008)
  • Madár Andrea “Hungarian university students’ attitudes towards accents of English” (2008)
  • Vincze Orsolya “Testing the language mode hypothesis with highly Hungarian dominant Hungarian-English bilinguals” (2008)
  • PhD Currently supervised:
  • Balogh Erzsébet “Language attitudes towards British and American accent varieties in East-Central Europe”
  • Keresztes Csilla “Investigation of English contact induced language features in Hungarian cardiology discharge reports and the language attitudes of physicians and patients”
  • Kovács Tímea (University of Pécs) “The adaptibility of the Optimality Theory for Bilingualism for Hungarian-English bilingual speakers of the American-Hungarian emigrant community in North Carolina”
  • 45 Major Papers supervised 1996–2008
  • 64 MA Theses supervised 1996–2008

• Teaching this academic year: Introduction to linguistics, Introduction to sociolinguistics, American dialects, Language contact, Academic writing, Linguistic analysis

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