Lilla Petronella Szabó

List of John Benjamins publications in which Lilla Petronella Szabó is involved.

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The Person in Politics: Pronouns and political personalization in U.S. presidential campaigns

Lilla Petronella Szabó

Personalization has become a central feature of political communication. Politicians appear on late-night talk shows, smile from billboards, and post family photos on social media – placing themselves at the heart of public discourse. As individual personalities take center stage, abstract… read more

[Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture, 107] 2025. xiii, 198 pp.

Articles

Benczes, Réka, Utku Bozdag and Lilla Petronella Szabó 2026 Chapter 11. All work and no play make the weekend frame go away? Metonymic micro-variation in online news articles Thinking and Speaking About Time: A cognitive linguistic approach, Brdar-Szabó, Rita and Mario Brdar (eds.), pp. 308–324 | Chapter

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 metaphor: journalists approach the events they report on more holistically towards the end of the… read more

Benczes, Réka and Lilla Petronella Szabó 2022 Onomatopoeia and metonymy Living Metaphors and Metonymies, Brdar, Mario and Rita Brdar-Szabó (eds.), pp. 195–209 | Article

When it comes to onomatopoeia, it is often claimed that such words are the epitome of sound symbolism, as the link between form and meaning is felt to be “natural”. Yet, this is quite far from the case: onomatopoeic words do need to conform to the phonological and morphological restrictions of a… read more

Szabó, Lilla Petronella and Gabriella Szabó 2022 Attack of the critics: Metaphorical delegitimisation in Viktor Orbán’s discourse during the Covid-19 pandemic (De)legitimising EUrope in times of crisis, Zappettini, Franco and Samuel Bennett (eds.), pp. 255–276 | Article

This paper presents a case study of Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s delegitimisation discourse on the European Union in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic. We focused on how the EU and its member states were depicted metaphorically in PM Orbán’s weekly radio interviews. Relying on the… read more