ABSTRACT
The chapter presents a case study of young Hungarian people in a predominantly Hungarian village in Serbia. It looks at the discursive means by which they construct their ethnic selves. It identifies the main themes related to youth and everyday ethnic identification, and the linguistic strategies by which these are realized. After outlining constructive and perpetuative discursive strategies, the focus is on transformative and destructive ones. By embedding the linguistic data into the social context, these young people’s values, norms and attitudes, and those of other ethnic groups, are interpreted; and a theoretically driven case study of an invisible population is explored.
