Hungarian Usage and Language Consulting Research Group•Research area
The work of the research group is divided into two important areas: on the one hand, the running of language services for public purposes, including the legal obligations related to name giving and name changing; and on the other hand, research related to these services. The Language Consulting Service provides assistance in managing language problems, spelling questions and interpreting texts. The group’s research is primarily based on processing and organising data from practical work.
The legal obligation includes the provision of professional expertise on the registrability of new applications for surname and surname changes, taking into account the legislation. This work is carried out by the Names Working Group, a specific group within the research team.
Hungarian Usage and Language Consulting Research Group•Staff
Institute for Language Technologies and Applied Linguistics
Institute for Language Technologies and Applied Linguistics
Hungarian Usage and Language Consulting Research Group•Research
Typology of language problems and institutional language consulting practices
The language observations and questions received by the Language Consulting Service of the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics provide research material that reveals a specific segment of language users’ language problems.
Hungarian Usage and Language Consulting Research Group•News
Hungarian Usage and Language Consulting Research Group•Events
9th International Language Management Symposium
Család- és utónév-menedzselés a 21. században. Az ELTE NYTK Nyelvhasználati és nyelvi tanácsadási kutatócsoport és a Névbizottság közös munkája
Alkalmazott Névkutatás 2026
Család- és utónévmenedzselés a 21. században. Az ELTE NYTK Nyelvhasználati és nyelvi tanácsadási kutatócsoport és a Névbizottság közös munkája
Hungarian Usage and Language Consulting Research Group•Publications
A selection of recent peer-reviewed papers and book chapters published in English and other international languages by members of the research group.
2026
Domonkosi, Á. (2025). Social meanings of Hungarian T and V forms. In V. Fernández-Mallat & M. I. Moyna (Eds.), Beyond binaries in address research: Politeness and identity practices in interaction (pp. 96–118). John Benjamins Publishing Company.
Jakab, D. (2026). A Possible Theoretical Framework for the Examination of Hungarian Language Consulting Practices. In A. Rahal (Ed.), Research in Linguistics: Contributions from STaPs-21 (pp. 63–86). Springer.
Kozma, J., Ludányi, Zs., & Jakab, D. (2026). Morphological variations in Hungarian proper names on the basis of inquiries received by the Language Consulting Service. Acta Onomastica, 2026(1), 170–193.
Ludányi, Zs. (2026). Directions of research on institutional language consulting: A comprehensive overview. Slovo a slovesnost, 87(1), 51–78.
Ludányi, Zs. (2026). Terminological problems in a Hungarian language consulting service. Open Linguistics, 12(1), 20250089.
2024
Ludányi, Zs. (2024). The role of corpora in the work of the Language Consulting Service of the HUN-REN Hungarian Research Centre for Linguistics. Eesti ja Soome-Ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, 15(2), 47–73.
Hauber, K. (2024). Personal names of the German minority in the light of the Habsburg Hungarian political battles of the 18th century. In: Felecan, O. & Bugheșiu, A. (eds.) Name and Naming. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Onomastics „Name and Naming”. (In)correctness in Onomastics. Baia Mare, September 5-7, 2023. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Mega. 95–108.
Hauber, K. (2024). Soziokulturelle Aspekte der deutschen Familiennamen im Karpatenbecken des 18. Jahrhunderts. [Socio-cultural aspects of the German family names in the Carpathian Basin in the 18th centuries]. Österreichische Namenforschung 2024(1), 261–272.
Slíz, M., Hauber, K. & Wendl, D. (2024). Why do people give credit to pseudoscientific name etymologies? In: Felecan, O. & Bugheșiu, A. (eds.) Name and Naming. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Onomastics „Name and Naming”. (In)correctness in Onomastics. Baia Mare, September 5-7, 2023. Cluj-Napoca: Editura Mega. 197–205.
Slíz, M., Dvořáková, Ž., Štěpán, P., Štěpánová, V., Farkas, T., N. Fodor, J., Szabó T., A. U., Hauber, K., Rutkiewicz-Hanczewska, M. & Walkowiak, J. (eds.) (2024). Dictionary of Family Names in the Visegrad Countries = Slovník příjmení v zemích Višegrádské skupiny = A visegrádi országok családnévszótára = Słownik nazwisk państw wyszehradzkich = Slovník priezvisk krajín Vyšehradskej skupiny. Online.
2023
Domonkosi, Á., & Ludányi, Zs. (2023). Politeness metadiscourses in the practice of Hungarian language consulting. Studia Linguistica Hungarica, 35, 24–37.
Hauber, K. (2023). The System of German Surnames in the Carpathian Basin of the 18th Century. In: In: Bijak, U, Walkowiak, J. & Swoboda, P. (eds.) Onomastics in interaction with other branches of science. Vol.2. : Anthroponomastics. Krakow: Jagiellonian University Press. 173–196.
Ludányi, Zs., & Domonkosi, Á. (2023). Language consulting and language management from the perspective of the Hungarian Language Consulting Service. Taikomoji kalbotyra, 20, 74–88.
2022
Ludányi, Zs., & Domonkosi, Á. (2022). 7th International language management symposium: Standardisation as language management. Slovo a slovesnost, 83(1), 71–76.
2021
Ludányi, Zs., & Domonkosi, Á. (2021). Die Rolle von Sprachtagebüchern im problembasierten Unterricht von Ungarisch als Muttersprache [The role of language diaries in problem-based teaching of Hungarian as L1]. Journal of Applied Technical and Educational Sciences (jATES), 11(1), 44–65.
2020
Ludányi, Zs. (2020). Language ideologies in contemporary Hungarian organized medical language management. Slovo a slovesnost, 81(2), 91–110.
Ludányi, Zs. (2020). Language consulting: A brief European overview. Eruditio – Educatio, 15(3), 25–47.
2019
Ludányi, Zs. (2019). Language ideologies in Hungarian language counselling interaction. Eruditio – Educatio, 14(3), 59–76.