Anna Alexander

* January 28, 1951, Alsócsitár - / linguist, teacher ; ; Anna Sándor was born in Alsócsitár near Nyitra. She completed primary school in her native village and in Nyitragerencsér, then graduated from the then-existing Hungarian grammar school in Nyitra in 1969. In 1974, she graduated from the Hungarian-Latin department of the Comenius University in Bratislava, and in 1983, she obtained a teaching certificate in history. Between 1974 and 1985, she was a grammar school teacher, and from 1990, a lecturer at the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature at the Pedagogical College in Nyitra (now Constantine the Philosopher University). In 1986, she obtained a minor doctorate, and in 2000, a PhD in Hungarian linguistics from the Faculty of Humanities of Eötvös Loránd University. He habilitated in Hungarian linguistics there in 2005. ; Between 2001 and 2014, he was the head of the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature at the Konstantin Philosophers University of Nyitra. His scientific activities are primarily focused on dialect research, linguistic geography issues and sociolinguistics. Some of his publications also concern issues of onomastics, translation studies and mother tongue education. He is a member of the Hungarian Linguistic Society. His research areas are dialectology, sociolinguistics, translatology, onomastics and mother tongue education. In recent years, he has been the leader or researcher of several domestic and international scientific projects. He has given lectures as a guest lecturer at Hungarian and other foreign higher education institutions (University of Helsinki). ; He is an active participant and organizer of domestic and foreign linguistic conferences. In addition to representatives of the profession, he has also informed the wider public about the scientific approach to language and language use issues of public interest. In addition to his residence, he gave lectures in several villages in the Nitra region, and was a frequent speaker in the Our Mother Language section of the Hungarian broadcast of the Slovak Radio in recent years. In addition to his representatives, he also informed the wider public about the scientific approach to language and language use issues of public interest. In addition to his residence, he gave lectures in several villages in the Nitra region, and was a frequent speaker in the Our Mother Language section of the Hungarian broadcast of the Slovak Radio in recent years. ; ; Acknowledgements: ; ; - 1992 Hungarian Linguistic Society Bálint Csűry Memorial Plaque ; - 2009 UKF University Rector's Award ; - UKF University Memorial Medal ; - 2011 Hungarian Academy of Sciences - Arany János Medal ; - 2015 Knight's Cross of the Hungarian Order of Merit ; - 2016 János Lotz Memorial Medal ; ; Publications: ; ; - 2000 Mother tongue use and bilingualism in a minority Hungarian-speaking community in Kolon. Bratislava. ; - 2001 Linguistic attitude in a minority. In: Hungarian Language XCVII/1, 87-95. ; - 2002 The role of social and geographical factors in the formation of the regional vocabulary of the Nitra region. In: László Gyurgyík-Aranka Kocsis (ed.): Society – Science. Bratislava, 96-116. ; -2002 Contact phenomena in informal and formal speech situations. In: Lanstyák I. – Simon Sz. (Ed.): Studies on Hungarian-Slovak bilingualism. Bratislava, 114-126. ; - 2004 Atlas of Hungarian dialects of the Nitra region. Bratislava. ; - 2004 “...And grandparents learn to speak in the language of their grandchildren” (from the sociolinguistic findings of the Nitra-Viedéki dialect collection). In: P. Lakatos Ilona - T. Károlyi Margit (eds.): Language loss, dialect loss, language exchange. Reference books for the study of linguistics. Budapest, 205-201. ; - 2005 Possibilities for further progress in Hungarian dialect research in Slovakia. In: Vörös Ferenc (ed.): Regional dialects, minority language use. Budapest-Nitra–Šamorín, 107-113. - 2005 Language as a function of space-time-society. Publications of the Department of Hungarian Language and Literature I. In: Studia artis grammaticae et litterarum. Nitra, 9-25. ; - 205 The situation of the Hungarian language in Slovak higher education. In: Miklós Kontra (ed.): Fried pigeon? Hungarian university textbook policy. Šamorín – Dunajská Streda, 161-166. (ed. Ildikó Vančo) ; - Vocabulary of the colonial hole embroidery ; - Slovak Hungarian dialects (co-author) ; - Introduction to the study of Slovak Hungarian dialects (co-author)