Zoltán Kövecses#
| Membership Number: | 6801 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LINGUISTIC STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2024 |
| Main Country of Residence: | HUNGARY |
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| ORCID: | 0000-0002-9642-4662 |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2008 - 2016 Head of doctoral program in Cultural Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University
- 2011 - 2014 Visiting professor, Department of English, Heidelberg University
- 2008 Distinguished Fellow, Institute of Advanced Study, Durham University
- 2003 Fulbright Fellow, Linguistics Department, UC Berkeley
- 1998 - 2016 Full professor, Department of American Studies, Eötvös Loránd University
- 1992 - 1993 Visiting professor, Department of English, Hamburg University.
- 1987 Fulbright Fellow, Slavic Languages, Rutgers University (Spring semester) and Department of Psychology, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
- 1982 - 1983 American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellow, Linguistics Department, University of California at Berkeley
Fields of Scholarship
- Universality and variation in metaphor
- Language of emotions
- American English
- Theory of metaphor and metonymy
- Lexicography
Honours and Awards
- 2017 Honorary Doctorate from Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce, Poland.
- 2017 Professor Emeritus, Eötvös Loránd University.
- 2008 Charles Simonyi Research Award.
- 2004 Országh László Award.
- 2000 Quality Award (Nívó-díj) for co-editing the English-Hungarian Dictionary.
- 1998 - 2001 Széchenyi Professor Grant.
