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DEL research fellow publishes a review of "Influencer Discourse: Affective Relations and Identities".

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Our colleague at DEL, György Rákosi has recently published a paper titled "Accusative case, possessive structure and grammaticalization: Reflexives and object pronouns in Hungarian" in the Journal of Uralic Linguistics.

This year, almost 80 students from as many as 27 countries are coming to Debrecen Summer School to learn Hungarian language and culture. At the current summer course, which lasts from July 21 to August 15, the youngest student is 16 years of age, while the oldest is 86. The number of young people learning the Hungarian language abroad is growing, and more and more start to learn Hungarian because of their family ties and heritage.

In keeping with tradition, Jürgen Sarnowsky, the newly inaugurated honorary doctor of the University of Debrecen (UD), presented his scholarly work and his most recent research findings in the form of a lecture. The professor of history at the University of Hamburg was awarded the title of Doctor honoris causa during a ceremony held in the venue called Aula of the Main Building on Friday.

Members of a delegation from the Beijing-based Center for Language Education and Cooperation of the Ministry of Education of China discussed the possibility of establishing a Bachelor of Arts program in Chinese language and culture at the University of Debrecen on Thursday with the leadership of our institution and that of the Faculty of Humanities.

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The UD Doctoral School of Linguistics and the Department of English Linguistics kindly invites everyone to Lukács Béla's public PhD-defense. The language of the event is Hungarian.

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Congratulations!

The University of Debrecen and Sunway University of Malaysia have renewed their three-year cooperation agreement, which was signed on Wednesday 18 June and will further expand educational and scientific relations between the two institutions.

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The UD Doctoral School of Linguistics and the UD-IEAS Department of English Linguistics cordially invites everyone to Zhu Xiaohan's preliminary PhD defense.

On Saturday, 14 June, during the Festive Book Week, the volume Xántus and Borneo: A 19th century Hungarian naturalist on the island of Borneo, based on the joint research of the University of Debrecen and the Sunway University of Malaysia, will be presented. Published by Sunway University Press, the publication presents the accounts of János Xántus's 1870 voyage to Borneo in Hungarian and, for the first time, in English translation.