Agnes Kuna
List of John Benjamins publications in which Agnes Kuna is involved.
2023 Chapter 8. Metapragmatics and reflections in support of knowledge transfer and common ground in doctor-patient interaction A Pragmatic Agenda for Healthcare: Fostering inclusion and active participation through shared understanding, Bigi, Sarah and Maria Grazia Rossi (eds.), pp. 200–226 | Chapter
In doctor-patient interactions, successful knowledge transfer and mutual understanding play a key role. To achieve them, participants need to construct common ground and collaborate jointly on meanings, while also overcoming difficulties arising from asymmetry of knowledge. These processes are… read more
2022 Practices of relationship building in Hungarian primary care: Communicative styles and intergenerational differences Relationships in Organized Helping: Analyzing interaction in psychotherapy, medical encounters, coaching and in social media, Scarvaglieri, Claudio, Eva-Maria Graf and Thomas Spranz-Fogasy (eds.), pp. 221–242 | Chapter
Using data from Hungarian primary-care consultations, we present linguistic features of relationship-building, focusing on the role of address forms and metapragmatic reflections. We also investigate intergenerational differences and different styles of managing doctor-patient relationships. Based… read more
2022 Being in the same boat , in two ways: Conflict metaphors in health care Figurative Thought and Language in Action, Brdar, Mario and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 259–284 | Chapter
In research on conflicts, the systematic study of metaphors is playing an increasingly prominent role. In the context of a U.S. – Swiss–Hungarian international collaboration investigating conflicts through interviews with healthcare professionals, the present chapter analyzes linguistic and… read more
2018 Chapter 1. Patterns of persuasion in Hungarian medical discourse domain from the 16th and 17th centuries Persuasion in Public Discourse: Cognitive and functional perspectives, Pelclová, Jana and Wei-lun Lu (eds.), pp. 21–42 | Chapter
This study focuses on the persuasive patterns and conceptual domains of 16th and 17th century Hungarian medical recipes. From a theoretical perspective, the study is set in a functional cognitive framework, with heavy reliance on historical pragmatics and sociolinguistics. From a methodological… read more



