The Budapest Sociolinguistic Interview:
Version 3

Miklós Kontra and Tamás Váradi      

Linguistics Institute, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
H-1250, P.O.Box 19., Hungary

The publication of this volume was supported with grant T 018272 of Országos Tudományos Kutatási Alap.

 

• Contents
• Preface
• References
• Introduction
• The aims of the Survey of Spoken Hungarian (SSH)
• The role of the sociolinguistic interview in the Survey
• Is completeness our objective?
• On the selection of research questions
• The rest of this manual
• On the selection of informants
• Field workers
• What to do about illiterate informants
• Primary and secondary data
• References
• Phonological section
• Research tools
• Research topics in phonology
• References
• Morphological, syntactic and lexical section
• Research topics in morphology
• Research topics in syntax
• Three lexical issues
• Other items collected
• References
• Guided conversation
• The Observer's paradox and the microphone
• On the role of the field worker
• Conversation modules
• The network of modules
• Practical hints on the guided conversation
• General instructions
• The relation between informant and field worker and the confidential treatment of data
• After completing the interview
• Research tools
• Cards
• Reading passages
• Research tools
• Cards
• Reading passages
• Minimal pairs
• Same or different?
• Instructions
• Contents of the test tape
• Word lists
• Which is correct?
• Instruction to field workers:
• Transcript of the tape recording
• How do you say it?
• Questions
• Fill in the right word
• The reporter's test
• What does demográfia mean?
• Conversation modules
• The mandatory ones:
• Optional verbatim modules:
• Neither verbatim nor mandatory modules:
• The processing of data
• Transcription of guided conversations
• The basic philosophy
• Format conventions
• Sample transcription
• The coding of test-like material
• Some envisaged applications of the system
• References
• About this document ...

3/3/1998