20.500.12556/DiRROS-23093 The Hungarian nationalities act of 1868 in operation (1868–1914) The article investigates explicit and implicit state language policies in Dualist Hungary (1867–1918), focusing on its eastern Romanian, Hungarian, and German-speaking parts. It sets the regulation and practices against the benchmark of the linguistic rights outlined in the 1868 Nationalities Act, the earliest modern, liberal language law on the continent. This document served as a central reference for contemporaries, an importance also bequeathed to historiographical accounts. Building on the applied linguist Janny Leung's analysis, the first half of the article engages with features that the Nationalities Act shared with most provisions enshrining legal multilingualism worldwide: a legitimating function, the under-specification of several key sections, and the fact that it referred to institutions on the move. Next, the article turns to more unambiguous paragraphs of the law, distinguishing between those that fit into the logic and were exploited for symbolic politics and those with more immediate, practical consequences for large sections of the citizenry. It further probes into the dispersed agency, ideological and pragmatic motives, and the center-periphery dynamics behind the (non-)implementation of the law. Madžarska narodnost 1868–1914 zgodovina true false false Angleški jezik Slovenski jezik Delo ni kategorizirano 2025-07-24 10:32:42 2025-07-24 10:36:16 2025-10-24 03:53:08 0000-00-00 00:00:00 0 0 0 str. 994-1015 no. 4 Vol. 81 winter 2022 0000-00-00 PostprintKoncna Objavljeno NiDoloceno 0000-00-00 0000-00-00 2022-12-21 94(439) 0037-6779 10.1017/slr.2023.2 213210371 hungarian_nationalities_act_in_operation.pdf hungarian_nationalities_act_in_operation.pdf 1 2297283FC5FA1435D5A1C2462742F0C2 4ce85d084d8480f97f86a4d549f1121ba646ab40138462ca9cb4bc7217cf90e3 cf4a0929-6868-11f0-9bb7-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=33848 https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/slavic-review/article/abs/hungarian-nationalities-act-of-1868-in-operation-18681914/998325E9CC2DD7987F459713C2AAC541 1 c4293387-6868-11f0-9bb7-001a4af901a5 https://dirros.openscience.si/Dokument.php?lang=slv&id=33847 Inštitut za novejšo zgodovino 0 0 0