Join us for the next online Budapest Metaphor Circle talk! 📅 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.

📚 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

🚨 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...

☀️🐉 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.

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

💙🎶 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.

🌊 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...

📸 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...

🗣️🎙️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.

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

👩‍🏫 🥇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. Find details here: ltsworkshop365.blogspot.com/2025/02/call...

🙈 🌞 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!

🧓 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...

☕️👀 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...

🫀👀 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

⏰ Research at our Uni! Corvinus Institute for Advanced Studies: Visiting Research Excellence Fellowship Application 2025/26 🔗 www.uni-corvinus.hu/post/landing...

🗣️🎙️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.

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

🗳️🇺🇸 Úgy kampányolt, mint egy lány? Rövid megfigyeléseink a Harris-kampányról a negatív perszonalizáció és a női politikusok negatív kampánytechnikáinak tükrében. t.co/dint6flQp6

🗞️ When potential meets perseverance - I’m super proud of Utku Bozdag, my doctoral student, whose hard work on populism materialised in “When Articulating Populist Dichotomies is Paramount: Exploring the Effects of Explicit and Implicit Populist Styles on User Engagement in Turkish Election Tweets.”

@jlanpol.bsky.social has fantastic new blog & companion website www.languageandpolitics.com Pls distribute & visit often for news about JLP papers & special issues, interviews w authors & SI editors & much more! Get in touch w. our Assoc Editor @k8ebrown.bsky.social for feedback/ input/comments!

📖🐕 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.