معرفی
Ágnes Kuna is a habilitated associate professor at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE), Faculty of Humanities, attached to the Department of Applied Linguistics and Phonetics and to the Institute of Hungarian Linguistics and Finno-Ugric Studies. She additionally heads the Hungarian Medical Language Research Group and directs the DiAGram Functional Linguistics Center, both at ELTE.
Education:
- PhD in Linguistics (Hungarian linguistics), ELTE, 2012
- PhD in Linguistics (cognitive linguistics), ELTE, 2016
Research focus: Kuna’s work integrates cognitive and pragmatic perspectives to explore the history and communicative patterns of medical language. She investigates doctor–patient interaction, text-type evolution of medical prescriptions from the 16th–17th centuries, metapragmatic awareness in clinical encounters, and the role of sociocultural factors such as politeness and flattery in healthcare communication.
Publication trends: Her recent output blends historical discourse analysis with modern clinical pragmatics, tracing genre development across early modern Hungarian medical manuscripts while simultaneously analyzing present-day Hungarian healthcare interactions for metapragmatic and interpersonal features.
Contact: kuna.agnes@btk.elte.hu | (+36 1) 485-5200/5189 | Room A/249, 1088 Budapest, Múzeum körút 4/A.
