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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

📚 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. 🐶

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Corvinus at #CADAAD2026! Happy to attend this year’s conference with some of my students. The discourse was excellent, and so were the discussions.

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Discounting the price, not the discourse. My book is on display at the John Benjamins stand at #CADAAD2026, with conference pricing throughout the event.

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

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.

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

There are crucial elections in #Hungary 🇭🇺 this weekend. If you are looking for sharp and well-informed commentary on Hungarian politics, make sure you follow these excellent women! @veghzsuzsanna.bsky.social @gabrielagreilinger.com @zecsaky.bsky.social @eublogo.bsky.social

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · 07/04/2026

📑 What do 122 studies on social media populism actually tell us? Our new paper reviews the field and finds a surprising pattern: whether results support a hypothesis often depends on how the study is designed. In other words, methods matter—a lot. academic.oup.com/anncom/advan...

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What have we learned, and what is yet to be learned about social media populism? A scoping review and meta-research

Abstract. The rise of populist communication on social media has attracted increasing scholarly attention since the late 2010s. However, the global researc

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · 29/01/2026

🗞️ A weekend getaway to Washington and Moscow New chapter with Réka Benczes & Utku Bozdag. We test whether journalists use capitals for governments more on weekends, when framing may be more holistic. No universal weekend effect: HU & TR align, GB news differs. benjamins.com/catalog/hcp....

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Metonymic micro-variation in online news articles: Chapter 11. All work and no play make the weekend frame go away?

Research indicates that the capital for government metonymy appears more frequently in news articles published at weekends as compared to weekdays. This is attributed to the time is space conceptual m...

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

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...

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Join us for the next online Budapest Metaphor Circle talk! 📅 December 10, 5:30 p.m. (CET) 🔗Email us for the link: budapestmetaphorcircle@gmail.com

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

🎙️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.

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · 08/09/2025

📚 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 · 24/07/2025

🚨 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 · 11/07/2025

☀️🐉 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 · 30/06/2025

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

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

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · 27/06/2025

💙🎶 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 · 05/06/2025

🌊 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...

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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 · 22/05/2025

📸 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 · 05/05/2025

🗣️🎙️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 · 02/05/2025

☀️🤓 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 · 30/04/2025

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 · 28/04/2025

👩‍🏫 🥇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 · 01/04/2025

🧭🤩 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 · 29/03/2025

📢 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 · 24/03/2025

🏞️ 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 · 10/03/2025

💐🏡 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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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

🙈 🌞 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 · 31/01/2025

🧓 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 · 09/01/2025

☕️👀 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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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · 06/01/2025

🫀👀 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

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

🗣️🎙️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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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

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

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

🗞️ 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.”

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mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social @mkrzyzanowski.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

@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!

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

📖🐕 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

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Lilla Petronella Szabó @lillapszabo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024

✨🪑 Was happy to chair a session on language, politics, and branding at the Marketing Linguistics Conference in Szombathely last week.

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