The paper analyses how the concept of transculturalism is understood in Hungarianlanguage literary discourse. Indeed, Hungarian research is one of those areas in which transcultural studies are developing particularly rapidly, as dictated by the specific nature of Hungarian literature, which has been polycentric for more than a century. The study lists the most important Hungarian-language scholarly works that directly refer to transculturalism, or that draw on transcultural methodological thought, analysing them in terms of how their authors define the concept of transculturalism. The conclusions that emerge from the analysis reveal that the majority of Hungarian literary scholars use the concept of transculturalism interchangeably with the similar but not fully synonymous term of transnationalism. This, in turn, shows that transculturalism remains a new and not well-defined concept in Hungary, which must be redefined each time for use in individual papers and articles.
