Special Issue on Language Contact is now online

Language Contact Special Issue This special issue of AMERICANA presents a selection of linguistics papers on language contact of American relevance as well as three book reviews of a wider, sociolinguistic focus. Four of the five research papers included in this issue deal with immigrant varieties of European (specifically, Finno-Ugric) languages spoken in North America: American Finnish, Canadian Estonian, and American Hungarian. The fifth paper discusses methodological issues of language attitude research in a situation of language contact, i.e. the attitudes of English major Hungarian students towards American English. The issue is guest edited by Anna Fenyvesi.

Volume VII, Number 2, Fall 2011 is now online

We are happy to announce the release of the latest issue of AMERICANA: Volume VII, Number 2, Fall 2011, guest edited by Gabriella Varró and Zoltán Simon. As they write in their introduction to the issue, it is the continuation of “[t]he previous issue of AMERICANA (Volume VII, Number 1), published in Spring 2011, guest edited by Gabriella Varró and Lenke Németh, [which ] was the first proceedings volume of the 8th Biennial Conference of the Hungarian Association for American Studies (HAAS 8), held in Debrecen, Hungary, in November 2010,” the broader theme of which was “Images of America.” This issue brings an astounding number of “17 papers that follow are more heterogeneous, addressing a smorgasbord of topics that nevertheless, when taken collectively, well represent the diversity of responses to the changing social, cultural and literary landscape, with the North American continent in the focus.”

New ebook by Réka M. Cristian from AMERICANA eBooks

AMERICANA eBooks, the ebook division of AMERICANA – E-Journal of American Studies in Hungary, proudly presents Cultural Vistas and Sites of Identity. Essays on Literature, Film and American Studies by Réka M. Cristian – an ebook that reflects on an array of American identities assembled in a heterogeneous compilation of New American Studies through examples taken from literature (Getting Home Alive by Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales, The Goat or Who Is Sylvia? by Edward Albee, How I Learned to Drive by Paula Vogel) and film (The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Frida and Babel). As with all our publications, this ebook can be downloaded in two formats (.prc & .epub) for free from the ebook’s page.

Vol. VII. Language Contact - Coming Soon!

Volume VII, Language Contact - Special Issue

Vol. VII. No. 2.

Volume VII, Number 2, Fall 2011