Ágnes Kuna

Ágnes Kuna

Áges KUNA DSc Head of Department, Associate Professor
Room: A/250
E-mail: kuna.agnes@btk.elte.hu

Research Fields

medical language, doctor-patient communication, healthcare communication, conflict management, persuasion, text typology, functional pragmatics

Education

2025 DSc (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
2023 Habilitation, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Linguistics
2016 PhD, ELTE, Cognitive Linguistics  
2012 PhD, ELTE, Hungarian Linguistics
2006 Degrees: Master of German Linguistics and Literature; Master of Arts in Hungarian as a Foreign Language; Master of Hungarian Linguistics and Literature; Teacher of German Language and Literature; Teacher of Hungarian as a Foreign Language; Teacher of Hungarian Language and Literature

Current and previous positions

2024– Head of Department, Department of Applied Linguistics and Phonetics, ELTE (Budapest)
2021– Guest professor, Applied Health Psychology, University of Szeged
2023– Associate professor, Department of Applied Linguistics and Phonetics, ELTE (Budapest)
2024–2025 Social Innovator, National Laboratory for Social Innovation, TINLAB, developing conflict management training for health professionals
2020–2023  Assistant professor, Department of Applied Linguistics and Phonetics, ELTE (Budapest)
2018–2024 Research fellow, Department of Linguistics of Contemporary Hungarian Language, ELTE (Budapest) (50%)
2018–2021 Researcher, Medical Education on Medically Unexplained Symptoms and Intercultural Communication (MUSIC) Erasmus+ (2018-1-NL01-KA203-038971)
2016–2017 Postdoctoral researcher working on the Corpus of Medical Hungarian, Hungarian Academy of Sciences (Budapest)
2015–2018 Guest professor, Semmelweis University (Budapest), taught course on Hungarian Medical Language
2015–2018 Editor, Magyar Orvosi Nyelv (‘Hungarian Medical Language’)
2014–2018 Guest professor, Gáspár Károli University of the Reformed Church (Budapest)

Awards and grants

2022 ELTE University Excellence Programme, Publication Award
2020 ELTE Award for Outstanding Researchers 
2019–2020 New National Excellence Programme Research Award (National Research, Development and Innovation Office)
2019–2022 János Bolyai Research Award (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)
2019 Szabó T. Attila Prize (TERMINI, Award for specialised language research)  
2019 Erasmus+ oktatói/kutatói pályázat, Helsinki (Finnország)
2012–2013 Research Scholarship (Excellence Scholarship of the Swiss Government, University of Zurich
2011–2012 Research Scholarship (DAAD), University of Leipzig and Mannheim 
2010–2011 Research Scholarship (AES/AÖU), University of Vienna
2008 Research Scholarship (AES/AÖU), University of Vienna
2005–2006 Teacher Assistant Scholarship (Tempus Foundation), Leiden, Groningen
2005 Research Scholarship (AES/AÖU, University of Vienna
2004–2005 Research Scholarship (DAAD), University of Leipzig

Research grants

2024–2026 Agency in chronic diseases Next Generation Partnership (NGP-Network), Hamburgi Egyetem
2021–2028 “New approaches to the care of chronically ill patients, leader of interdisciplinary research project” (ETT TUKEB 64964/2017/EKU)
2021–2025 K 137659 Corpus-based cognitive poetic analysis of personal designation constructs, co-researcher 
2021–2022 ELTE Thematic Excellence Program “Community building: family and nation, tradition and innovation”, co-researcher
2018–2021 Erasmus+ strategic cooperation project Medical Education on Medically Unexplained Symptoms and Intercultural Communication (MUSIC) (Project No. 2018-1-NL01-KA203-038971; partners: Belgium, Netherlands)
2018–2022 K 129040 Verbal constructions in the Hungarian language. Usage-based construction grammar research, co-researcher 
2015– Conflicts among healers international project linguist coder and researcher
2012–2017 100717 Functional cognitive linguistic research, co-researcher (excellent rating)
2010–2014 K 81315 Cognitive stylistic research, co-researcher (excellent rating)

Teaching Activity

Discourse Analysis; Discourse Strategies; Communication and Pragmatics; Communication and Rhetoric; Research Methodology; Linguistic Applications; Applied Communication Studies; Stylistics; Business Correspondence and Spelling; Document Editing and Typography; Scientific and Cultural Management

Publications

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