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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