A FAMILY MEMORY AND INTERPRETATION OF THE PRESENT SLOVAK - MAGYAR LIVING TOGETHER - (CASE-STUDY)

The study is a comparative analysis of historical documents and oral f amily histories collected by the first of authors in (and about) the S outhern Slovakia village, inhabited with both Magyars and Slovaks. Its aim is to reconstruct the history of their living together, which has started due the Agreement on inhabitans Exchange signed by Hungary an d Czechloslovakia in 1946, and to trace up the reciprocal impacts betw een the memory and the maintained representation of good mutual relati onship. Focus is also on reasons of preserving habitual communication in Hungarian language between Slovaks and Magyars.