Elicitingálása

Elicitingálása is a Hungarian term used to refer to the act or process of elicitation—the drawing out of information, responses, or linguistic data from individuals or texts. The word is formed from a loanword meaning to elicit and the Hungarian suffix -ása, which marks the act or process. In academic usage, elicitingálása denotes the practice of obtaining data that participants would not provide spontaneously, or would provide only under specific prompts.

In linguistics and related social sciences, elicitation is a common methodological approach. Elicitingálása describes the set of techniques researchers use to collect data that reveal linguistic structures, cognitive processes, or attitudes. Typical elicitation tasks include picture description, sentence completion, translation, storytelling prompts, and controlled dialogue, all designed to evoke targeted linguistic forms or responses while enabling comparability across subjects or corpora. In psychology and psychotherapy, elicitation methods aim to evoke thoughts, feelings, or memories under ethical guidelines. In market research, prompting questions and probes are used to elicit consumer opinions and preferences.

Ethical and methodological considerations are central to elicitingálása. Researchers must obtain informed consent, ensure participant welfare, and avoid coercion. Task design should minimize bias and maximize data reliability and validity. The term encompasses both the purpose of drawing out information and the practical techniques used to do so, with disciplinary variations in how prompts are structured and how responses are analyzed.

See also: elicitation, elicitation techniques, interviewing, survey methodology.