Name: Csilla Bartha
Date of Birth: March 31, 1965
Place of Birth: Eger, Hungary
Address: Paulay Ede u. 58, Budapest, H-1061
Phone: (36-1) 34-0101, E-mail: bartha@nytud.hu
 

EDUCATION

1995 PhD, linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest
1991 MA, Department of Hungarian Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
1983-88 BA, Hungarian Language, Literature, and Dialectology, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
1987 University of Nebraska, International Summer School in American Culture, Lincoln, NE, USA
 

PAST ACTIVITIES

1988-1996 part-time research fellow at the Department of Sociolinguistics (Budapest Sociolinguistic Interview, Research Institute for Linguistics, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1991-1994 assistant professor at the Department of Modern Hungarian Language, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest, Hungary)
1991 lecturer at Endre Ady Academy for university students belonging to Hungarian ethnic minorities in the Carpathian Basin (Debrecen, Hungary)
1993 visiting fellow at Catholic University (Leuven, Belgium)
1994 visiting fellow at Rutgers University, Department of Anthropology (NJ, USA)
1995 visiting professor at the University of Salamanca, Department of Spanish Philology (Salamanca, Spain)
 

PRESENT ACTIVITIES

1994- date associate professor at the Department of Modern Hungarian Language (Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
1997- date lecturer in the Linguistics Graduate School at the Eötvös Loránd University
 

COURSES TAUGHT

Introduction to linguistics; Sociolinguistic theory; Field methods in sociolinguistics; Introduction to bilingualism; Sociolinguistic approach to bilingualism; Contact variants of Hungarian; Textlinguistics; Pragmatics; Discourse analysis; Linguistic anthropology; Language planning and linguistic human rights
 

PHD STUDENTS

Olena Sydorenko: Convergence and grammatical constraints of Russian-Ukranian code-switching (Graduate School in Theoretical Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest);
Helga Hattyár: Sociolinguistic analysis of Deaf communities in Hungary (Graduate School in Hungarian Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest)
 

GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS

National Science Foundation (OTKA) Research Support Grant, 1997-2000
Pro Renovanda Fellowship, 1998-1999
Telegdi Zsigmond Fellowship, Linguistics Institute, HAS 1996-1997
Sasakawa Research Grant, 1997
IREX Research Support Grant, Rutgers University, USA, 1994
TEMPUS Fellowship, Catholic University of Leuven, 1993
Postgraduate Fellowship, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, 1988-91
AFS Research Grant, Lincoln, NE, USA, 1987
 

AWARDS

1993 Award for Young Scholars, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
1990 Award for Exellence in High Education, Ministry of Culture and Education
 

AREAS OF SPECIAL COMPETENCE

Interactional sociolinguistics; bilingualism (theories, language loss, social and linguistic aspects of language shift, Deaf bilingualism, immigrant groups, grammatical and interactional aspects of code-switching, language ideologies); linguistic anthropology, etnography of communication; discourse and racism, linguistic prejudice; linguistic human rights, minority education
 

RELATED EXPERIENCE

Fieldwork for the Project on ”Regional Standard Variants” in Hungarian, 1983-87
Fieldwork in Detroit, MI, 1987
Fieldwork in Békéscsaba among Hungarian refugees from Transylvania, 1988
Fieldwork in New Brunswick, NJ, 1994
Fieldwork in Budapest, Békéscsaba, Baja and Székesfehérvár, 1997-1999, Bilingualism, linguistic stereotypes, minority and majority attitudes towards minorities in Hungary
 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES

Study Centre on Language Contact, NIAS, Wassenaar ? The Netherlands, 1999
First International Summer School on Psycholinguistics, Balatonalmádi, Hungary
Sociolinguistic Symposium 12, London (UK), 1998
Conference on Variation in Hungarian: Languages and Cultures in Contact in the Carpathian Basin, Vienna (Austria), 1998
First International Summer School, Psycholinguistics, Balatonalmádi, 1998
International Symposium on Bilingualism, Newcastle upon Tyne (UK), 1997
First International Symposium on Bilingualism, Vigo (Spain), 1997
International Conference on Linguistic Human Rights, Budapest, 1997
Conference on Variation in Hungarian: Bilingualism and Language Use in the Carpathian Basin, Budapest, 1994
Code-switching, Summer School, Leeuwarden (The Netherlands), 1994
Conference on Variation in Hungarian: Language Planning, Nagymegyer (Slovakia), 1994
6th International Congress of Hungarian Linguists, Eger, 1994
5th International Congress of Dialectologists and Geolinguists, Budapest, 1993
International Conference on Bilingualism, Nitra/Nyitra (Slovakia), 1992
Conference on Variation in Hungarian: Sociolinguistics and Dialectology, Cluj Napoca/Kolozsvár (Romania), 1991
Roundtable on Bilingualism, Bratislava (Slovakia), 1990
 

PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS

Hungarian Linguistic Society, 1988-date
Hungarian Association of Modern Philology, 1991-date
LIDES Group 1996-date
Societas Linguistica Europea, 1996-date
International Pragmatic Association, 1999-
Hungarian Association of Applied Linguists, 1999-

 
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