János Imre Heltai
Biographic Data
| ID | 2112705 |
|---|---|
| NAME | János Imre Heltai |
| GIVEN NAMES | János Imre |
| FAMILY NAME | Heltai |
| SIGNATURE | HELTAI J I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9674-0115 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Pathways to ethical subjectivity: Participant transformation in tripartite collaborative research
Starting from the intersection of collaborative approaches and decoloniality, this article focuses on the role of ethical subjectivity and its emphasis on love, care, and hope in both decolonial thinking and collaborative research, as pathways to relinquishing power and redistributing resources. We present a ‘tripartite’ collaborative linguistic ethnographic project from a town in Hungary, which involves the collaboration of university-based part…
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 …
From grassroots literacy to transliteracies in the educational context of the Moldavian Csángó
This paper investigates literacies in the Moldavian region of Romania, where bilingual speakers produce writings in a contested language they call the 'Csng mode of speaking'.The speakers sometimes define their language as collateral both with Standard Hungarian and Romanian.Our research question is the following: How are locally constructed collateral literacy practices transformed or neglected in standardising educational contexts?The theoretic…
Local participants and uninvolved citizens: Life beyond participatory research
Participatory ethnography brings together strands of academic and local knowledge, transforming the positionality of both academic and local participants in the research site. The extent of citizen involvement in participatory (action) research and the ethical dilemmas for both academic and civil researchers have long been the subject of debate [Lenette, Caroline. 2022. Participatory Action Research: Ethics and Decolonization. New York: Oxford Ac…
From (in)securitisation to conviviality: The Reconciliatory Potential of Participatory Ethnography
Racialised bilinguals experience marginalisation all over the world. In South-East Europe, millions of bilingual Roma share this experience alongside emerging aspirations of conviviality, which remain rare. This paper considers marginalisation as a consequence of (in)securitisation. The concept of (in)securitisation addresses discursive techniques of power which advocate the protection of some at the price of excluding others. These discursive te…
Translanguaging as a rhizomatic multiplicity
Translanguaging is an increasingly popular concept used in the description of multilingual practices and in language policy and language pedagogy research. In this paper, I argue that the main reason for the rapid increase in the use of this concept is that it has rhizomatic characteristics. My argument is supported by evidence supplied by a project conducted among members of a Romani-Hungarian bilingual Roma community in a small town in Hungary.…
Translanguaging instead of standardisation: Writing Romani at school
In most public education in the western world the existence of a standardized language variety is still regarded as a precondition of teaching writing. This stance generates a problem in situations where no standardized variety matches the children’s home language practices and no traditions of an extended and standardised literacy exist. Roma students in Hungary have to acquire writing skills in the majority language (Hungarian), since the teach…
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…
Local participants and uninvolved citizens: Life beyond participatory research
Participatory ethnography brings together strands of academic and local knowledge, transforming the positionality of both academic and local participants in the research site. The extent of citizen involvement in participatory (action) research and the ethical dilemmas for both academic and civil researchers have long been the subject of debate [Lenette, Caroline. 2022. Participatory Action Research: Ethics and Decolonization. New York: Oxford Ac…
From (in)securitisation to conviviality: The Reconciliatory Potential of Participatory Ethnography
Racialised bilinguals experience marginalisation all over the world. In South-East Europe, millions of bilingual Roma share this experience alongside emerging aspirations of conviviality, which remain rare. This paper considers marginalisation as a consequence of (in)securitisation. The concept of (in)securitisation addresses discursive techniques of power which advocate the protection of some at the price of excluding others. These discursive te…
Translanguaging as a rhizomatic multiplicity
Translanguaging is an increasingly popular concept used in the description of multilingual practices and in language policy and language pedagogy research. In this paper, I argue that the main reason for the rapid increase in the use of this concept is that it has rhizomatic characteristics. My argument is supported by evidence supplied by a project conducted among members of a Romani-Hungarian bilingual Roma community in a small town in Hungary.…
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…
Translanguaging instead of standardisation: Writing Romani at school
In most public education in the western world the existence of a standardized language variety is still regarded as a precondition of teaching writing. This stance generates a problem in situations where no standardized variety matches the children’s home language practices and no traditions of an extended and standardised literacy exist. Roma students in Hungary have to acquire writing skills in the majority language (Hungarian), since the teach…
Translanguaging as a rhizomatic multiplicity
Translanguaging is an increasingly popular concept used in the description of multilingual practices and in language policy and language pedagogy research. In this paper, I argue that the main reason for the rapid increase in the use of this concept is that it has rhizomatic characteristics. My argument is supported by evidence supplied by a project conducted among members of a Romani-Hungarian bilingual Roma community in a small town in Hungary.…
From (in)securitisation to conviviality: The Reconciliatory Potential of Participatory Ethnography
Racialised bilinguals experience marginalisation all over the world. In South-East Europe, millions of bilingual Roma share this experience alongside emerging aspirations of conviviality, which remain rare. This paper considers marginalisation as a consequence of (in)securitisation. The concept of (in)securitisation addresses discursive techniques of power which advocate the protection of some at the price of excluding others. These discursive te…
Local participants and uninvolved citizens: Life beyond participatory research
Participatory ethnography brings together strands of academic and local knowledge, transforming the positionality of both academic and local participants in the research site. The extent of citizen involvement in participatory (action) research and the ethical dilemmas for both academic and civil researchers have long been the subject of debate [Lenette, Caroline. 2022. Participatory Action Research: Ethics and Decolonization. New York: Oxford Ac…
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 …
From grassroots literacy to transliteracies in the educational context of the Moldavian Csángó
This paper investigates literacies in the Moldavian region of Romania, where bilingual speakers produce writings in a contested language they call the 'Csng mode of speaking'.The speakers sometimes define their language as collateral both with Standard Hungarian and Romanian.Our research question is the following: How are locally constructed collateral literacy practices transformed or neglected in standardising educational contexts?The theoretic…
Pathways to ethical subjectivity: Participant transformation in tripartite collaborative research
Starting from the intersection of collaborative approaches and decoloniality, this article focuses on the role of ethical subjectivity and its emphasis on love, care, and hope in both decolonial thinking and collaborative research, as pathways to relinquishing power and redistributing resources. We present a ‘tripartite’ collaborative linguistic ethnographic project from a town in Hungary, which involves the collaboration of university-based part…
Sociology (8 works) · Pedagogy (6 works) · Multilingual Education and Policy (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Gender Studies in Language (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Linguistics (4 works) · Citizen journalism (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Social science (3 works)