Noémi Fazakas
Biographic Data
| ID | 1265032 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Noémi Fazakas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Noémi |
| FAMILY NAME | Fazakas |
| SIGNATURE | FAZAKAS N |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2737-1875 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 25 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Researching dialects with high school students: A citizen science approach
Citizen science as a form of inquiry inviting nonprofessionals into different phases of the research process appeared in linguistics in the last decade. However, few such projects aim to study dialectal features, even though renewal would benefit dialectology. This methodological paper explores possible ways of applying citizen science in research on dialects. A specific small-scale study is presented which was conducted in the 2023/2024 academic…
Participatory sociolinguistics across researchers’ and participants’ language ideologies
The participatory approach is becoming more widespread in the social sciences and is also starting to take hold in the study of language in society. However, there has been little research done on how critical sociolinguistics can be linked to research that is based on the involvement and engagement of as many participants as possible at a level they find relevant for themselves. We argue that the academic separation between the ‘researcher’ and …
Towards participation: Collaboration, responsibility, and shared knowledge production in doing multilingualism research
Authorised voices: Literacy practices of language revitalisation through education
Current research on language revitalisation through education has highlighted the impact of the standard language ideology on minoritised language practices. This ideology is intertwined with emerging literacy practices in language revitalisation, leading to debates on what to teach minority language students, and how. The paper argues that language education is as much about the language standard, as it is about the sociolinguistic voices that a…
Language experts on a sinking island: Critiquing language endangerment rhetorics through participation in and around a tabletop game
The participatory study of language addresses the unequal relationships between the 'researcher' and the 'researched'. As part of this undertaking, university-based researchers seek to develop more accessible ways of knowledge production to involve other participants in the creation of novel forms of representation at the levels relevant to them. The university-based participants of our research addressed this challenge by co-designing a language…
Giving voice to the Csángó figure: Participation Roles and the Production of Belief in Language Revitalisation
Language revitalisation gives voice to those who participate in it. But it is not always clear whose voice the participants make heard. It is also not straightforward who hears and wants to listen to the voices that are raised during language revitalisation. In this article, we present a language educational programme which aims to give voice to the participants of the Moldavian Hungarian (also calledCsángó) language revitalisation in North-East …
Participation in sociolinguistic research
Involving speakers in research on their linguistic practices has been at the core of sociolinguistics since the inception of the field. In contrast to social sciences, however, sociolinguists have rarely addressed the issues surrounding the participation of those involvedandengaged in the research process. This paper aims at reviewing the state of the art and outlining critical dimensions and aspects with relation to participation. We explore pre…
Reinventing Linguistic Ethnographic Fieldwork During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Our paper discusses the methodological implications of an ethnographic linguistic research project in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Starting from pertinent definitions of linguistic ethnography and interpretations of the field, we offer a demonstration of the process in which this particular participatory research project was faced with the fact that the field became unavailable and inaccessible for the non-local participants. We …
Enregistering authenticity in language revitalisation
Authenticity is a key concept of language revitalisation; any attempt to restore the language practices of the past aims at achieving the authentic language. Since, as much of recent sociolinguistic scholarship has argued, this goal can only be met through metapragmatic activities, the emically defined success of language revitalisation also depends on such processes. The introduction of new linguistic practices is therefore inevitably linked to …
Language revitalization, modernity, and the Csángó mode of speaking
This study points out that language revitalization is closely connected to the discourse of language endangerment that objectifies languages considering them countable, regarding them separable from both the speaker and their use while speaking. It argues that this “modernist” approach of language defines the nature and, implicitly, the results of language revitalization actions. Using the example of the Moldavian Csángó Hungarian Educational Pro…
Participation in sociolinguistic research
Involving speakers in research on their linguistic practices has been at the core of sociolinguistics since the inception of the field. In contrast to social sciences, however, sociolinguists have rarely addressed the issues surrounding the participation of those involvedandengaged in the research process. This paper aims at reviewing the state of the art and outlining critical dimensions and aspects with relation to participation. We explore pre…
Enregistering authenticity in language revitalisation
Authenticity is a key concept of language revitalisation; any attempt to restore the language practices of the past aims at achieving the authentic language. Since, as much of recent sociolinguistic scholarship has argued, this goal can only be met through metapragmatic activities, the emically defined success of language revitalisation also depends on such processes. The introduction of new linguistic practices is therefore inevitably linked to …
Giving voice to the Csángó figure: Participation Roles and the Production of Belief in Language Revitalisation
Language revitalisation gives voice to those who participate in it. But it is not always clear whose voice the participants make heard. It is also not straightforward who hears and wants to listen to the voices that are raised during language revitalisation. In this article, we present a language educational programme which aims to give voice to the participants of the Moldavian Hungarian (also calledCsángó) language revitalisation in North-East …
Language experts on a sinking island: Critiquing language endangerment rhetorics through participation in and around a tabletop game
The participatory study of language addresses the unequal relationships between the 'researcher' and the 'researched'. As part of this undertaking, university-based researchers seek to develop more accessible ways of knowledge production to involve other participants in the creation of novel forms of representation at the levels relevant to them. The university-based participants of our research addressed this challenge by co-designing a language…
Towards participation: Collaboration, responsibility, and shared knowledge production in doing multilingualism research
Language revitalization, modernity, and the Csángó mode of speaking
This study points out that language revitalization is closely connected to the discourse of language endangerment that objectifies languages considering them countable, regarding them separable from both the speaker and their use while speaking. It argues that this “modernist” approach of language defines the nature and, implicitly, the results of language revitalization actions. Using the example of the Moldavian Csángó Hungarian Educational Pro…
Enregistering authenticity in language revitalisation
Authenticity is a key concept of language revitalisation; any attempt to restore the language practices of the past aims at achieving the authentic language. Since, as much of recent sociolinguistic scholarship has argued, this goal can only be met through metapragmatic activities, the emically defined success of language revitalisation also depends on such processes. The introduction of new linguistic practices is therefore inevitably linked to …
Reinventing Linguistic Ethnographic Fieldwork During the Covid-19 Pandemic
Our paper discusses the methodological implications of an ethnographic linguistic research project in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020. Starting from pertinent definitions of linguistic ethnography and interpretations of the field, we offer a demonstration of the process in which this particular participatory research project was faced with the fact that the field became unavailable and inaccessible for the non-local participants. We …
Participation in sociolinguistic research
Involving speakers in research on their linguistic practices has been at the core of sociolinguistics since the inception of the field. In contrast to social sciences, however, sociolinguists have rarely addressed the issues surrounding the participation of those involvedandengaged in the research process. This paper aims at reviewing the state of the art and outlining critical dimensions and aspects with relation to participation. We explore pre…
Giving voice to the Csángó figure: Participation Roles and the Production of Belief in Language Revitalisation
Language revitalisation gives voice to those who participate in it. But it is not always clear whose voice the participants make heard. It is also not straightforward who hears and wants to listen to the voices that are raised during language revitalisation. In this article, we present a language educational programme which aims to give voice to the participants of the Moldavian Hungarian (also calledCsángó) language revitalisation in North-East …
Authorised voices: Literacy practices of language revitalisation through education
Current research on language revitalisation through education has highlighted the impact of the standard language ideology on minoritised language practices. This ideology is intertwined with emerging literacy practices in language revitalisation, leading to debates on what to teach minority language students, and how. The paper argues that language education is as much about the language standard, as it is about the sociolinguistic voices that a…
Language experts on a sinking island: Critiquing language endangerment rhetorics through participation in and around a tabletop game
The participatory study of language addresses the unequal relationships between the 'researcher' and the 'researched'. As part of this undertaking, university-based researchers seek to develop more accessible ways of knowledge production to involve other participants in the creation of novel forms of representation at the levels relevant to them. The university-based participants of our research addressed this challenge by co-designing a language…
Researching dialects with high school students: A citizen science approach
Citizen science as a form of inquiry inviting nonprofessionals into different phases of the research process appeared in linguistics in the last decade. However, few such projects aim to study dialectal features, even though renewal would benefit dialectology. This methodological paper explores possible ways of applying citizen science in research on dialects. A specific small-scale study is presented which was conducted in the 2023/2024 academic…
Participatory sociolinguistics across researchers’ and participants’ language ideologies
The participatory approach is becoming more widespread in the social sciences and is also starting to take hold in the study of language in society. However, there has been little research done on how critical sociolinguistics can be linked to research that is based on the involvement and engagement of as many participants as possible at a level they find relevant for themselves. We argue that the academic separation between the ‘researcher’ and …
Towards participation: Collaboration, responsibility, and shared knowledge production in doing multilingualism research
Multilingual Education and Policy (10 works) · Sociology (10 works) · Linguistics (8 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Political science (6 works) · Gender Studies in Language (4 works) · Linguistic Variation and Morphology (4 works) · Citizen journalism (3 works) · Computer Science (3 works) · EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning (3 works)