Lilla Petronella Szabó
@lillapszabo.bsky.social
Cognitive linguistics and political communication
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Assistant Professor @Corvinus University of Budapest
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Assistant Professor @Corvinus University of Budapest
📚 One new chapter, two new titles.
I’m happy to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor and am taking over as Head of the Department of Communication and Media Science at Corvinus University of Budapest.
My dog, Lotti is, of course, supervising. 🐶
I’m happy to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor and am taking over as Head of the Department of Communication and Media Science at Corvinus University of Budapest.
My dog, Lotti is, of course, supervising. 🐶
September 8, 2026 at 10:14 AM
📚 One new chapter, two new titles.
I’m happy to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor and am taking over as Head of the Department of Communication and Media Science at Corvinus University of Budapest.
My dog, Lotti is, of course, supervising. 🐶
I’m happy to share that I’ve been promoted to Associate Professor and am taking over as Head of the Department of Communication and Media Science at Corvinus University of Budapest.
My dog, Lotti is, of course, supervising. 🐶
Corvinus at #CADAAD2026! Happy to attend this year’s conference with some of my students. The discourse was excellent, and so were the discussions.
July 10, 2026 at 8:32 AM
Corvinus at #CADAAD2026! Happy to attend this year’s conference with some of my students. The discourse was excellent, and so were the discussions.
Honored to receive the Corvinus Research Excellence Award.
The award recognizes publications that enhance the university's international visibility, and I am grateful that my work has been recognized in this way.
Many thanks to everyone I have had the chance to work and think together with.
The award recognizes publications that enhance the university's international visibility, and I am grateful that my work has been recognized in this way.
Many thanks to everyone I have had the chance to work and think together with.
May 29, 2026 at 11:00 AM
Honored to receive the Corvinus Research Excellence Award.
The award recognizes publications that enhance the university's international visibility, and I am grateful that my work has been recognized in this way.
Many thanks to everyone I have had the chance to work and think together with.
The award recognizes publications that enhance the university's international visibility, and I am grateful that my work has been recognized in this way.
Many thanks to everyone I have had the chance to work and think together with.
Our paper on person-marking and geopolitical positioning appeared in Cognition, Communication, Discourse by V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University,Ukraine. Despite damage to the uni’s buildings in the war, academic work continues, and so does the journal. periodicals.karazin.ua/cognitiondis...
December 27, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Our paper on person-marking and geopolitical positioning appeared in Cognition, Communication, Discourse by V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University,Ukraine. Despite damage to the uni’s buildings in the war, academic work continues, and so does the journal. periodicals.karazin.ua/cognitiondis...
Join us for the next online Budapest Metaphor Circle talk!
📅 December 10, 5:30 p.m. (CET)
🔗Email us for the link:
[email protected]
📅 December 10, 5:30 p.m. (CET)
🔗Email us for the link:
[email protected]
December 4, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Join us for the next online Budapest Metaphor Circle talk!
📅 December 10, 5:30 p.m. (CET)
🔗Email us for the link:
[email protected]
📅 December 10, 5:30 p.m. (CET)
🔗Email us for the link:
[email protected]
🎙️It’s me at the next BMC!
I’ll be giving a talk titled "Finding the Person in Politics" at the next meeting of the Budapest Metaphor Circle on October 22.
You can find the details below – and if you’d like to listen in, please drop me a quick message for the link.
I’ll be giving a talk titled "Finding the Person in Politics" at the next meeting of the Budapest Metaphor Circle on October 22.
You can find the details below – and if you’d like to listen in, please drop me a quick message for the link.
October 20, 2025 at 1:41 PM
🎙️It’s me at the next BMC!
I’ll be giving a talk titled "Finding the Person in Politics" at the next meeting of the Budapest Metaphor Circle on October 22.
You can find the details below – and if you’d like to listen in, please drop me a quick message for the link.
I’ll be giving a talk titled "Finding the Person in Politics" at the next meeting of the Budapest Metaphor Circle on October 22.
You can find the details below – and if you’d like to listen in, please drop me a quick message for the link.
📚 Who let the politicians out? 🙋♀️
I did — in The Person in Politics. The book shows how pronouns in U.S. presidential nomination speeches drive personalization: spotlighting leaders, building “us” vs. “them,” and shaping collective identities. tinyurl.com/5a3y7h9a
I did — in The Person in Politics. The book shows how pronouns in U.S. presidential nomination speeches drive personalization: spotlighting leaders, building “us” vs. “them,” and shaping collective identities. tinyurl.com/5a3y7h9a
September 8, 2025 at 2:56 PM
📚 Who let the politicians out? 🙋♀️
I did — in The Person in Politics. The book shows how pronouns in U.S. presidential nomination speeches drive personalization: spotlighting leaders, building “us” vs. “them,” and shaping collective identities. tinyurl.com/5a3y7h9a
I did — in The Person in Politics. The book shows how pronouns in U.S. presidential nomination speeches drive personalization: spotlighting leaders, building “us” vs. “them,” and shaping collective identities. tinyurl.com/5a3y7h9a
☀️🐉 From Australia to Austria — closed out the summer conference season at #FTL8 in Klagenfurt. Dóra E. Varga and I presented on PM Orbán’s anti-EU rhetoric during Hungary’s 2024 presidency of the EU Council.
July 11, 2025 at 5:36 PM
☀️🐉 From Australia to Austria — closed out the summer conference season at #FTL8 in Klagenfurt. Dóra E. Varga and I presented on PM Orbán’s anti-EU rhetoric during Hungary’s 2024 presidency of the EU Council.
💙🎶 Réka Benczes and I presented our paper “Tuning the ‘blues’”, exploring metaphors of late-life depression in Australian media, at #IPrA2025 in Brisbane. Co-authored with Kate Burridge and Keith Allan as part of a joint project with Monash & UTas. More to come–stay tuned.
June 27, 2025 at 6:34 AM
💙🎶 Réka Benczes and I presented our paper “Tuning the ‘blues’”, exploring metaphors of late-life depression in Australian media, at #IPrA2025 in Brisbane. Co-authored with Kate Burridge and Keith Allan as part of a joint project with Monash & UTas. More to come–stay tuned.
🗣️🎙️Had a great time with my doctoral student, Utku Bozdag, at the Research Lounge roundtable hosted by Corvinus Library and the Doctoral Student Union. We shared our encounters with Reviewer 2 and our publication experiences — with only minor revisions.
May 5, 2025 at 5:03 PM
🗣️🎙️Had a great time with my doctoral student, Utku Bozdag, at the Research Lounge roundtable hosted by Corvinus Library and the Doctoral Student Union. We shared our encounters with Reviewer 2 and our publication experiences — with only minor revisions.
☀️🤓 Had a lovely time presenting our papers in Polańczyk at the Culture and Cognition in Language conference.
May 2, 2025 at 11:32 AM
☀️🤓 Had a lovely time presenting our papers in Polańczyk at the Culture and Cognition in Language conference.
👩🏫 🥇Super-proud of my student, Balázs Horváth, who won 1st place at the National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference. His results contribute to understanding political personalisation in the context of Hungarian politics at the time of the coronavirus pandemic.
April 28, 2025 at 1:41 PM
👩🏫 🥇Super-proud of my student, Balázs Horváth, who won 1st place at the National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference. His results contribute to understanding political personalisation in the context of Hungarian politics at the time of the coronavirus pandemic.
🧭🤩 Fooling around this April 1st? You might just find your way again by reading my (open-access) article, Making a Cardinal Point:The Conceptualization of EAST and WEST in Hungarian Public Discourse, published in Metaphor and Symbol. #metonymy #politicaldiscourse www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
April 1, 2025 at 11:46 AM
🧭🤩 Fooling around this April 1st? You might just find your way again by reading my (open-access) article, Making a Cardinal Point:The Conceptualization of EAST and WEST in Hungarian Public Discourse, published in Metaphor and Symbol. #metonymy #politicaldiscourse www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
📢 CFP: Come to the 3rd Annual Corvinus Communication Conference entitled “Media, Modes, Meanings: Online Conference on Multimodality for Young Researchers”! 📅 Date: May 30, 2025 (online), ⏰ Abstract submission: 11 April 2025, 🔗 www.uni-corvinus.hu/post/landing...
March 29, 2025 at 9:28 AM
📢 CFP: Come to the 3rd Annual Corvinus Communication Conference entitled “Media, Modes, Meanings: Online Conference on Multimodality for Young Researchers”! 📅 Date: May 30, 2025 (online), ⏰ Abstract submission: 11 April 2025, 🔗 www.uni-corvinus.hu/post/landing...
🏞️ We checked out the evolving conceptualisation of Central Asian countries in Western news articles and found evidence of CA appearing as an ally. However, the region being “Russia’s backyard” sentiment still persists via references to the Soviet Union. Read more here: tinyurl.com/3wm3s7hp
March 24, 2025 at 6:39 PM
🏞️ We checked out the evolving conceptualisation of Central Asian countries in Western news articles and found evidence of CA appearing as an ally. However, the region being “Russia’s backyard” sentiment still persists via references to the Soviet Union. Read more here: tinyurl.com/3wm3s7hp
💐🏡 With spring around the corner, join us on March 16 as we explore ‘Russia’s backyard’—the portrayal of Central Asia in American and European news media.
Find details here: ltsworkshop365.blogspot.com/2025/02/call...
Find details here: ltsworkshop365.blogspot.com/2025/02/call...
March 10, 2025 at 8:52 AM
💐🏡 With spring around the corner, join us on March 16 as we explore ‘Russia’s backyard’—the portrayal of Central Asia in American and European news media.
Find details here: ltsworkshop365.blogspot.com/2025/02/call...
Find details here: ltsworkshop365.blogspot.com/2025/02/call...
🧓 Want to avoid late-onset depression? Just be a senior, not elderly!
📰 Our research in Text & Talk shows that Australian news media portrays depression as less severe and more treatable in seniors than in the elderly.
#ageing #depression #latelifedepression
doi.org/10.1515/text...
📰 Our research in Text & Talk shows that Australian news media portrays depression as less severe and more treatable in seniors than in the elderly.
#ageing #depression #latelifedepression
doi.org/10.1515/text...
January 31, 2025 at 12:56 PM
🧓 Want to avoid late-onset depression? Just be a senior, not elderly!
📰 Our research in Text & Talk shows that Australian news media portrays depression as less severe and more treatable in seniors than in the elderly.
#ageing #depression #latelifedepression
doi.org/10.1515/text...
📰 Our research in Text & Talk shows that Australian news media portrays depression as less severe and more treatable in seniors than in the elderly.
#ageing #depression #latelifedepression
doi.org/10.1515/text...
☕️👀 I read “The Puzzle of Vehicle Selection in Conceptual Metonymies”—and you should too! My review in LaMiCuS explains why I recommend pairing it with a good coffee. After all, as the book shows, you can enjoy a “cup” and still end up with coffee!
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January 9, 2025 at 11:18 PM
☕️👀 I read “The Puzzle of Vehicle Selection in Conceptual Metonymies”—and you should too! My review in LaMiCuS explains why I recommend pairing it with a good coffee. After all, as the book shows, you can enjoy a “cup” and still end up with coffee!
files.clickweb.home.pl/be/02/be0204...
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🫀👀 Oh my heart, I reviewed the volume “Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies: The ‘heart’,” discussing the conceptualisation of the heart across 19 languages on 479 pages. And I recommend reading those pages from the bottom of…you know what.
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January 6, 2025 at 11:08 PM
🫀👀 Oh my heart, I reviewed the volume “Embodiment in cross-linguistic studies: The ‘heart’,” discussing the conceptualisation of the heart across 19 languages on 479 pages. And I recommend reading those pages from the bottom of…you know what.
t.co/vWYiaaySeg
t.co/vWYiaaySeg
🗣️🎙️We had a lovely time promoting the Scientific Students’ Associations Conference yesterday. As secretary of the Communication and Media Science section, I invited colleagues and former contestants to share their research experiences with our students at Corvinus University of Budapest.
November 27, 2024 at 8:40 AM
🗣️🎙️We had a lovely time promoting the Scientific Students’ Associations Conference yesterday. As secretary of the Communication and Media Science section, I invited colleagues and former contestants to share their research experiences with our students at Corvinus University of Budapest.
🗳️🇺🇸 Úgy kampányolt, mint egy lány? Rövid megfigyeléseink a Harris-kampányról a negatív perszonalizáció és a női politikusok negatív kampánytechnikáinak tükrében.
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November 19, 2024 at 1:56 PM
🗳️🇺🇸 Úgy kampányolt, mint egy lány? Rövid megfigyeléseink a Harris-kampányról a negatív perszonalizáció és a női politikusok negatív kampánytechnikáinak tükrében.
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📖🐕 Lotti is a bit uncertain what the fuss is about, but I’m still happy that my chapter on the cultural conceptualisation of individualisation in 🇺🇸 speeches was published in Cultural Linguistics and the Social World! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... #CulturalLinguistics #PoliticalCommunication
November 14, 2024 at 3:24 PM
📖🐕 Lotti is a bit uncertain what the fuss is about, but I’m still happy that my chapter on the cultural conceptualisation of individualisation in 🇺🇸 speeches was published in Cultural Linguistics and the Social World! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... #CulturalLinguistics #PoliticalCommunication
✨🪑 Was happy to chair a session on language, politics, and branding at the Marketing Linguistics Conference in Szombathely last week.
November 12, 2024 at 11:49 PM
✨🪑 Was happy to chair a session on language, politics, and branding at the Marketing Linguistics Conference in Szombathely last week.