Bearing witness to the field of Hungarian as a foreign language and Hungarian Studies – The first twenty-one volumes of "Hungarológiai Évkönyv" (The Annual Journal of Hungarian Studies)

Abstract

The Annual Journal of Hungarian Studies (Hungarológiai Évkönyv) has served the two causes of teaching Hungarian as a foreign language and researching Hungarian Studies as a high-quality scientific journal. This rewarding work has been taking place at the University of Pécs for twenty years now. The double milestones of having published our Yearbook for two decades as well as the retirement of our editor-in-chief Tibor Szűcs presented an outstanding opportunity for reflection. In a bibliographical format, I reviewed how the original plans from 2000 translated into reality. The number of publications and key words suggests that the Évkönyv (Yearbook) has been useful for many researchers. Not only has it supported the experts of Hungarology, but also the scholars of native and foreign language cultures. To this date, we published almost 400 pieces. Most of the said pieces are studies that proved to be of such high quality that several language and culture scholars reference them often in various fields.