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personal data approved: 2024. IV. 02.
Personal data
name Zoltán Kövecses
year of birth 1946
name of institution
doctoral school
ELTE Doctoral School of Literary Studies (Academic staff member)
ELTE Doctoral School of Linguistics (Supervisor)
the share of work in the different doctoral schools. ELTE Doctoral School of Literary Studies 16%
ELTE Doctoral School of Linguistics 84%
accreditation statement submitted to: Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
Contact details
E-mail address zkovecsesludens.elte.hu
phone number +36 1 460-4416
own web page
Academic title
scientific degree, title Ph.D.
year degree was obtained 1988
discipline to which degree belongs linguistics
institution granting the degree HAS
scientific degree, title DSc
year degree was obtained 1996
discipline to which degree belongs
institution granting the degree HAS
Employment
2016 - Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest
professor emeritus
Thesis topic supervisor
number of doctoral students supervised until now 17
number of students who fulfilled course requirements 5
students who obtained their degrees:
(50%) Ilona Lechner PhD 2020  DSL
Kou Danyang PhD 2019  DSL
Eszter Nucz PhD 2018  DSL
Mohsen Bakhtiar PhD 2018  DSL
Orsolya Farkas PhD 2018  DSL
Orsolya Putz PhD 2017  DSL
Ildikó Harsányi PhD 2015  DSL
(50%) Réka Szabó PhD 2014  DSL2-PPKE
Esenova Orazgozel PhD 2011  DSL
(50%) Veronika Szelid PhD 2009  DSL
Marta Berendi PhD 2006  
Reka Benczes PhD 2005  DSL
Szilvia Csábi PhD 2005  DSL
Kimmel Michael PhD 2002  

completed course requirement:
Tünde Laura Ambrus (PhD) 2017/08  DSL
present PhD students:
(50%) Jiayou Xi (PhD) (2025/08)  DSL
  Thesis topic proposals
Research
research area cognitive linguistics; metaphor and metonymy; abstract concepts; cognition and culture; American English; conceptualization of emotions; slang
research field in which current research is conducted linguistics
Publications
2022

Zoltán Kövecses: The heart of the matter: A matter of the heart, REVIEW OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS 20: (1) pp. 91-103.
type of document: Journal paper/Article
language: English
URL 
2021

Kövecses Zoltán: Metaphoric Conceptual Pathways, Cognitive Semantics 7: (1) pp. 136-154.
type of document: Journal paper/Article
language: English
2020

Kövecses Zoltán: Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory, Cambridge University Press
type of document: Book/Monography
number of independent citations: 2
language: English
URL 
2020

Kövecses Zoltán: An extended view of conceptual metaphor theory, REVIEW OF COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS 18: (1) pp. 112-130.
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 2
language: English
URL 
2019

Zoltán Kövecses, Laura Ambrus, Ren Imai, Anna Sobczak, Hegedűs Dániel: The lexical vs. corpus-based method in the study of metaphors, In: Despot, Kristina; Brdar, Mario; Bolognesi, Marianna (szerk.) Metaphor and metonymy in the digital age, John Benjamins (2019) pp. 149-173.
type of document: Part of book/Szaktanulmány (to be translated)
language: English
2017

Kövecses Zoltán: Levels of metaphor, COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS 28: (2) pp. 321-347.
type of document: Journal paper/Article
number of independent citations: 45
language: English
URL 
2017

Zoltán Kövecses: Conceptual metaphor theory, In: Elena, Semino; Zsófia, Demjén (szerk.) The Routledge Handbook of Metaphor and Language, Routledge (2017) pp. 13-27.
type of document: Part of book/Szaktanulmány (to be translated)
number of independent citations: 36
language: English
2015

Zoltán Kövecses: Where Metaphors Come From, Oxford University Press
type of document: Book/Monography
language: English
2010

Zoltán Kövecses: Metaphor, Oxford University Press
type of document: Book/Monography
number of independent citations: 26
language: English
2005

Kövecses Zoltán: Metaphor in culture, Cambridge University Press
type of document: Book/Monography
number of independent citations: 524
language: English
URL 
Number of independent citations to these publications:635 
Scientometric data
list of publications and citations
number of scientific publications that meet accreditation criteria:
231
number of scientific publications:
230
monographs and professional books:
39
monographs/books in which chapters/sections were contributed:
65 
scientific publications published abroad that meet the accreditation criteria:
153
publications not in Hungarian, published in Hungary, meeting the accreditation criteria:
52
number of independent citations to scientific publications and creative works:
5122
further relevant information regarding accreditation (in Hungarian)
Charles Simonyi Kutatói Ösztöndíj (2008). Összesen 12 speciális és általános magyar-angol, angol-magyar szótár szerkesztése. Egyike vagyok a Metaphor and Symbol c. nemzetközi tudományos folyóirat négy szerkesztőjének. Egyike vagyok a Cognitive Linguistics c. folyóirat társ-szerkesztőinek. Tagja voltam a 2011-ben megjelent The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the Language Sciences konzulensi szerkesztőbizottságának (consulting editorial board). (to be translated)

 
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