FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

“Lángosda”: it is a noun that refers to a buffet where you can buy lángos (which is a Hungarian meal). The root of the word is “lángos” (noun, the name of the meal), while the suffix “-da” refers to the place. The “-da” suffix is not new in Hungarian, we have plenty of nouns, which end with “-da” (e.g. uszoda: ‘swimming pool’, óvoda: ‘kindergarden’), but it is a novel and “trendy” way to add it to the names of shops, restaurants, or firms.

Réka Sólyom (PhD, habil.) is a university associate professor at the Department of Hungarian Linguistics, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church in Hungary, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Budapest. She is the editor of the Review column in the journal Anyanyelv-pedagógia (Mother Tongue Pedagogy), and the secretary general and leading member of MANYE (Hungarian Association of Applied Linguists and Language Teachers). Her main fields of research are Hungarian neologisms, and Hungarian technical languages, especially quality management’s technical terms. She is a member of the Research Group in Stylistics (ELTE), where she has been studying the language use of slam poetry in a functional cognitive framework. She teaches stylistics, semantics, rhetoric, communication, orthography (in Hungarian), speaking skills (in English). She has published 2 monographs and a students’ book, and more than 140 articles in the fields of neologisms, stylistics, rhetoric and communication. https://btk.kre.hu/index.php/solyom-reka