Coping with Socially Sensitive Topics. Discourse on Interethnic Marriages among Elderly Members of the Serbian Minority in Hungary

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Ilić, M. (2010). Coping with Socially Sensitive Topics. Discourse on Interethnic Marriages among Elderly Members of the Serbian Minority in Hungary, 33-53. doi:10.2298/BALC1041033I
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Title

Coping with Socially Sensitive Topics. Discourse on Interethnic Marriages among Elderly Members of the Serbian Minority in Hungary

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Author

Marija, Ilić

Journal

Balcanica

Volume
Issue

XLI

Start page

33

End page

53

ISSN

0350-7653

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DOI

10.2298/BALC1041033I

URL

http://dais.sanu.ac.rs/handle/123456789/4309

Date

2010-2019/08/12/16:05:01

Abstract

Drawing on the field research conducted in the Serbian community in Szigetcsép, Hungary, the paper examines interlocutors' oral discourse on interethnic marriages. Until the Second World War, the Serbs in Hungary, rural communities in particular, mainly practised endogamy. In the post-war era, however, they tended to be among the minority groups with the highest rate of exogamic marriages. Conse­quently, the interviewees established discourse links between 'interethnic marriages', 'loss of native language' and 'fear of identity loss'. The analytical focus is on the interlocutors' internal dialogism between the authoritative word of the ancestors and autobiographical assertions.

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