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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · Sep 8

📚 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

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Lucía Jiménez @luciajimenezuco.bsky.social · Jul 24

🚨 CfP open!
❓Are you a young researcher in Cognitive Linguistics?
➡️Present your work at the "4th International Conference for Young Researchers in Cognitive Linguistics", hosted by @uco.es online.
📝Deadline: Sept 1, 2025
🎤Four plenary speakers
🗓️Dec 10-12, 2025

eventos.uco.es/132298/detai...

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · Jul 11

☀️🐉 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.

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · Jun 30

🤩 Super proud of my mentee, Balázs Horváth, who presented his work on agentivity in political crisis communication at #IPrA2025.
youtu.be/7TrsYWK8P7U

Never Taking Responsibility? (IPrA 19th International Pragmatics Conference)

YouTube video by Horváth Balázs

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · Jun 27

💙🎶 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.

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · Jun 5

🌊 Braving the blues: So pleased to see Breaking Taboos out—a powerful podcast on ageing & mental health in Australia, part of our ARC-funded research project.

🎵 Trailer’s live—listen & share with anyone, younger or older, who values these vital conversations.

open.spotify.com/show/1G56aAV...

Breaking Taboos: Older Australians talk about mental health

Podcast · Helene Thomas, Mia Lindgren and Kate Burridge · Breaking Taboos is a ten-part conversational podcast about ageing and mental health. The episodes explore how older Australians experience men...

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · May 22

📸 Media! Multimodality! Meaning!
Join us online for the 3rd Corvinus Communication Conference on 30 May. We’re diving into how different modes make meaning—featuring a keynote from the brilliant @anaisauge.bsky.social on metaphorical takes of the climate crisis 🌍🔥 www.uni-corvinus.hu/downloads/b1...

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · May 14

🕊️ Not a Chomskyan, academically speaking. But this line holds:
“If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.”
Hungary seems to be drifting further from that principle. telex.hu/english/2025...

Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · May 5

🗣️🎙️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.

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · May 2

☀️🤓 Had a lovely time presenting our papers in Polańczyk at the Culture and Cognition in Language conference.

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Dimitris Serafis @dimitrisrf.bsky.social · Apr 30

We are excited to welcome @veronikakoller.bsky.social & @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social for the keynote event of our lecture series "TaalX: #Discourses of #Discrimination" - register to attend online/in-person 👉 sites.google.com/rug.nl/taalx2 @rug.nl

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · Apr 28

👩‍🏫 🥇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.

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · Apr 1

🧭🤩 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....

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · Mar 29

📢 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...

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · Mar 24

🏞️ 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

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · Mar 10

💐🏡 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...

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Anaïs Augé @anaisauge.bsky.social · Feb 3

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EDMO BELUX Lunch Lecture – Ecological knick-knacks, green sect, or prophecy? Sceptical argumentation in climate crisis discourse - EDMO Belux

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · Jan 31

🙈 🌞 One of those days: one young researcher’s award snub and two abstract rejects (from the same conference!) all stocked for the end of January (at least it’s over). To top it all off, I burned lunch. Gonna wipe the tears with our latest paper – also published today as the highlight of the day!

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · Jan 31

🧓 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...

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · Jan 9

☕️👀 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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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · Jan 6

🫀👀 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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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · Dec 11

⏰ Research at our Uni!

Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies: Visiting Research Excellence Fellowship Application 2025/26

🔗 www.uni-corvinus.hu/post/landing...

CIAS Application 2025/2026 - Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem

CIAS & Institute / Research Centre Visiting Research Excellence Fellowship Application 2025/26 An international hub for research excellence in the heart of Central Europe Apply Here Contact Us Detaile...

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · Nov 27

🗣️🎙️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.

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Denis Ivanov @denisivanov.bsky.social · Nov 20

We're hiring an assistant professor at our department. Experience in teaching needed. Young department, beautiful city, get in touch for more info!

Assistant Professor – ARH-137/2024 - Budapesti Corvinus Egyetem

Corvinus University of Budapest has over a 100-year-old history and is one of the leading universities in Hungary in Business and Management, Economics, and Social Sciences. We have around 11,500 stud...

www.uni-corvinus.hu

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · Nov 19

🗳️🇺🇸 Úgy kampányolt, mint egy lány? Rövid megfigyeléseink a Harris-kampányról a negatív perszonalizáció és a női politikusok negatív kampánytechnikáinak tükrében.

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