Ludovit Stur Institute of Linguistics
Topic
Foreign Languages in the Cultural History of the Slovak Language Community
PhD. program
Slovak language
Year of admission
2025
Name of the supervisor
doc. Mgr. Gabriela Múcsková, PhD.
Contact:
Receiving school
Faculty of Arts Comenius University Bratislava
Annotation
The subject of the dissertation is the research of the status and functioning of selected foreign languages, which were used as cultural languages in the territory of present-day Slovakia, and how their status and function have changed in the course of the historical development of the linguistic situation up to today. The aim of the thesis is to extend the existing knowledge about the functioning of foreign languages in the territory of present-day Slovakia, which mostly concerns language contacts, spheres of foreign language use and language interference (e.g. borrowings from these languages into Slovak), by interpretation from the perspective of the theory of language planning (especially in terms of status and its dynamics against the background of the social situation) and by research into attitudes towards these languages. The choice of the specific language(s) and the historical period will be specified after consultation with the candidate, or in the first year of study. Basic research will include archival research of historical sources, official documents and contemporary periodicals.