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Accepted Abstracts -- 2022
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Cultural Studies paper by Szabó T., Annamária Ulla (all papers)
Current Tendencies in Married Name Choice in Hungary (Accepted)
Type of Abstract (select):Abstract (max. 250 words):
This paper presents the results of a study about current tendencies in married name choice in Hungary, exploring the practice of what married names are chosen and the motivating factors of the expression of identity that underlie it. Married names, have an important function in representing self-identity, whether traditional or compromise names are chosen by the members of the couple, and also if they decide to keep their birth names. This is also shown by the results of a questionnaire survey conducted in 2017. All the 70 participants had university degrees and lived in Budapest or in other large cities of Hungary. Sampling can by no means be taken to be representative but recurring response motifs draw an unambiguous picture of the motivations of the main trends of name choice, with components acting against one another with respect to the individual name types. These frequency components, as processed by content analysis, can be arranged along a scale from the intention to express togetherness, motivating the married name forms taken to be traditional, to the insistence on unique self-expression of the individual, with less typical name forms positioned in between. The background of the motifs of responses is very complex, multidimensional, and involves family traditions, social expectations, job market possibilities and psycho-sociological patterns of naming fashions, too.
Brief Professional Bio (max. 100 words):
Annamária Ulla Szabó T., linguist, assistant professor at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. She gained her diplomas at the Eötvös Loránd University on French and Hungarian Language and Literature (2008) and Hungarian as a Foreign Language (2009). She earned her PhD in 2013 in Hungarian Linguistics. Her research area is sociolinguistics, bilingualism, socio-onomastics: the interaction of language, culture and identity; family-internal socialization of bilingual speakers; multilingual names and identity; motivations of married name choice in Hungary. Her methodological studies have their focus on the concentrated competence development of listening comprehension skills and cultural mediation in Hungarian as a foreign language.