NÁRODNOSTNÝ ŽIVOT MAĎAROV NA SLOVENSKU (KULTÚRNO - JAZYKOVÝ ASPEKT)

The main purpose of this paper is an analysis of the cultural and language problems of the Hungarian minority members living in Slovakia. This question will be analyzed with regard to their own personal perception, evaluation and consideration of these indicators as important factors for preservation of ethnical identity and for future development of it. The authoress utilized relevant results of empirical findings obtained from the 'modern' investigations in terrain, which were performed by the Institute of Social Sciences, Slovak Academy of Sciences in the framework of the Hungarian minority after year 1989. The situation in the above-mentioned areas was monitored and orientation of views of individual recipients or participants of culture, as well as users of Hungarian/mother language was investigated. In this study, the authoress briefly presents also a topical situation of Hungarian minority culture through characteristics of regenerated or newly created institutional cultural base after the change of political regime in Slovakia.