%0 Journal Article
%T Coping with socially sensitive topics discourse on interethnic marriages among elderly members of the Serbian minority in Hungary
%A Ili£¿ Marija
%J Balcanica
%D 2010
%I Institute for Balkan Studies, SASA, Belgrade, Serbia
%R 10.2298/balc1041033i
%X Drawing on the field research conducted in the Serbian community in Szigetcs¨¦p, Hungary, the paper examines interlocutors¡¯ oral discourse on interethnic marriages. Until the Second World War, the Serbs in Hungary, rural communities in particular, mainly practised endogamy. In the post-war era, however, they tended to be among the minority groups with the highest rate of exogamic marriages. Conse-quently, the interviewees established discourse links between ¡°interethnic marriages¡±, ¡°loss of native language¡± and ¡°fear of identity loss¡±. The analytical focus is on the interlocutors¡¯ internal dialogism between the authoritative word of the ancestors and autobiographical assertions.
%K anthropological linguistics
%K minority
%K authoritative discourse
%K ethnic identity
%K interethnic marriages
%K Serbs in Hungary
%U http://www.doiserbia.nb.rs/img/doi/0350-7653/2010/0350-76531041033I.pdf