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Curriculum Vitae

Personal data:

Szalai Andrea PhD, research fellow

Address:

Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Department of Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics and Sociolinguistics

1068 - Budapest, Benczúr u. 33.

e-mail: szalaia71@gmail.com, szalaia@nytud.hu

phone: (+36-1-)321-48-30/162

Education

1995 MA in Hungarian: Linguistics and Literature. Janus Pannonius University, Pécs. (number: 300/95.)

2010 PhD in linguistics. University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities, Doctoral School for Linguistics (number: 14/2011./Ph.D., summa cum laude)

other experience:

1999 July: "The Plight of the Gypsies" summer university course, Central European University, Budapest

Professional experience

2002– Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics and Sociolinguistics, research fellow

1998–2001: Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Department of Applied Linguistics, junior research fellow

19962002: University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Romani Studies,  assistant lecturer

Research interests, topics:

Sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology; language ideologies, language and gender; discourse analysis, Romani language and Romany cultures.

Research projects:

Language ideologies of Romani in Central Europe

Field research:

24-month-long linguistic anthropological fieldwork in Romani-Hungarian-Romanian speaking Gabor Roma communities in Transylvania, Romania.

Work, courses in higher education

a) 1996–2002: University of Pécs, Dept. of Romani Studies:

- Linguistic situation of Gypsy ethnic groups in Hungary

- Sociolinguistics of Romani language

- Cultural ideologies in Romani communities.

- Linguistic anthropological aspects of Romani-related research

- Lecture series “Gypsy cultures – Gypsy societies I-II.” (lecturers: Anna Csongor, Gábor Kertesi, Katalin Kovalcsik, János Ladányi, Csaba Prónai, Péter Radó, Zita Réger, Andrea Szalai).

b) 2005: Eötvös Loránd University, Dept. of Theoretical Linguistics:

- Fieldwork (Romani), seminar for undergraduates

c) 2009-2012: University of Szeged, Dept. of Communication and Media Studies:

- Linguistic and cultural ideologies in Romani communities (lecture for MA students)

d) ) 2000 July 10–21, Summer university: ’Romani community, culture and education’.

 (Romaversitas, HESP, Open Society Institute and Institute for Research of Minorities ELTE, Budapest)

Courses: ’Sociolinguistics in Romani-related research’, ’Language and gender in Romani communities’.

Research grants

2000: MÖB Eötvös Scholarship (Research in trilingual Gabor Roma communites in Transylvania, Romania)

2001–2002: „Anthropological and sociolinguistic study on a Romani-Hungarian-Romanian-speaking Roma community”, Open Society Institute, Roma Culture Initiative, Budapest. (with Berta Péter)

2003: MÖB Eötvös Scholarship, Great Britain, University College London

2003: OKTK, Gypsy communities and their languages, participant. (principal investigator: Bánréti Zoltán. With Bartha Csilla, Orsós Anna).

2005: Research grant for fieldwork in Gabor Roma communities. Open Society Institute, Roma Culture Initiative, Budapest. (with Berta Péter)

2007: MÖB Eötvös Scholarship, Great Britain, University College London

2009–2012: Romanian–Hungarian bilateral academic exchange programme: Studies in bilingualism in Hungary and Romania: Sociolinguistic research in Romanian communities in Hungary and Roma communites in Romania. Participant. (Head of the project: Borbély Anna, CSc)

2012–2014: Linguistic anthropological studies on Romani language (Language ideologies of Romani in Central and Eastern Europe.) Hungarian Research Fund, principal investigator, project ID: OTKA PD 101 752.

Membership in professional associations:

- European Academic Network on Romani Studies 2011–

- University of Pécs, Department of Romani Studies and Sociology of Education, Research Centre for Romani Studies, Romani and Boyash Language Workshop. 2012–

- Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics 2013–

- Linguistic Society of Hungary, 2013–

- Public Body of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Section of Linguistics and Literary Scholarship) 2013–

- Hungarian Association of Applied Linguists and Language Teachers 2012–

- Multilingualism and Linguistic Diversity (book series, member of the International Advisory Board, 1999–2002)

Publications

 

Last modified: 25.07.2013

 

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