My PhD dissertation is the result of fieldwork during which I investigated Russian as a lingua franca in various post-Soviet countries. I teach sociolinguistics classes in our Russian Linguistics PhD programme. On the one hand, my research and fieldwork are focused on the changing linguistic situation, language policy, and linguistic landscape of the post-Soviet region, and on the other hand, the search and examination of similar or even opposite linguistic situations in Western Europe. By mapping the phenomena related to bilingualism, multilingualism, or potentially, semilinguism, we get a more comprehensive picture of the geopolitical situation of the region in question and the sociocultural development of the researched region. The examination of these also provides an important reference point for students and future researchers from a language pedagogic point of view.

In the center of my research is the ability of  Hungarian students of Russian to recognize the constituents of compound words and their meanings. The purpose  is to identify the associative chains while working with Russian vocabulary in order to use the common European cultural heritage. Through a comparative study of the etymology and morphemic analysis of new words, our RAFL lessons will be intellectually challenging even for beginners and they will be useful for them in understanding word-building processes in European languages.