Abstract

Peter Sherwood taught at the University of London for 35 years before being appointed the first László Birinyi, Sr., Distinguished Professor of Hungarian Language and Culture in the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2008. His main research interests are in linguistics but he has also published widely in the field of Hungarian culture, including translations from the Hungarian: most recently, essays by Béla Hamvas (Trees, 2006), a novel by Miklós Vámos (The Book of Fathers, 2006, 2009), and a short story by Dezső Kosztolányi(http://asymptotejournal.com, 2011).

Highlights

  • Following a landslide victory in the Hungarian elections of April 2010, the new Hungarian government embarked on a program of wide-ranging legislation, beginning with comprehensive changes to the laws on the media – both print and broadcast – from June 2010 onwards

  • For the linguist that term is not limited to word meaning; there is sentence meaning and, for some linguists, pragmatic meaning (‘it’s hot in here’ may be a plea to open the window)

  • Here I will be generally talking about word meaning

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Introduction

Following a landslide victory in the Hungarian elections of April 2010, the new Hungarian government embarked on a program of wide-ranging legislation, beginning with comprehensive changes to the laws on the media – both print and broadcast – from June 2010 onwards.

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