🎙️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.

📚 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

☀️🐉 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.

🗣️🎙️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.

👩‍🏫 🥇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....

📢 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

💐🏡 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.
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🧓 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

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☕️👀 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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🫀👀 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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🗣️🎙️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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📖🐕 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.