Réka Benczes
Biographic Data
| ID | 4104121 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Réka Benczes |
| GIVEN NAMES | Réka |
| FAMILY NAME | Benczes |
| SIGNATURE | BENCZES R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Corvinus University of Budapest |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3481-8279 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Don’t worry, be a senior?” The metaphorical labelling of late-life depression in Australian news media
Since the late 1980s, there has been a reconceptualization of ageing, which is also reflected in how older adults are referred to. Research on Australian English indicates that while the label seniors activates positive associations of health and well-being, the characteristics related to the label the elderly are generally negative. The question is whether this difference in semantic stereotyping is also extended to how a heavily stigmatized and…
Universality versus variation in the conceptualization of anger: A question of methodology
Cognitive linguistic investigations into the metaphorical conceptualization of anger suggest that languages are remarkably similar on a schematic level, with intensity and control as two, possibly universal dimensions underlying the metaphorical conceptualization of anger. These dimensions, however, can manifest themselves in language-specific metaphors. Yet arriving at a definitive answer to the question of universality versus variation is hinde…
When life is no longer a journey: The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the metaphorical conceptualization of life among Hungarian adults – a representative survey
There is ample research on how metaphors of life vary both cross-culturally and within culture, with age emerging as possibly the most significant variable with regard to the latter dimension. However, no representative research has yet been carried on whether variation can also occur across time. Our paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature by exploring whether a major crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, can induce variation in how l…
Visual Metaphors
Journal Article Visual Metaphors Get access Visual Metaphors Michalle Gal London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. pp. 224. £28.99 (PBK). Réka Benczes Réka Benczes Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, ayad034, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayad034 Published: 05 April 2024
Palatal is for happiness, plosive is for sadness: Evidence for stochastic relationships between phoneme classes and sentiment polarity in Hungarian
The past couple of decades have seen a substantial increase in linguistic research that highlights the non-arbitrariness of language, as manifested in motivated sound–meaning correspondences. Yet one of the challenges of such studies is that there is a relative paucity of data-driven analyses, especially in the case of languages other than English, such as Hungarian, even though the proportion of at least partially motivated words in Hungarian vo…
Visual Metaphors
Migrants are not welcome: Metaphorical framing of fled people in Hungarian online media, 2015–2018
Figurative framing, in the form of metaphorical expressions, is especially effective in carrying conceptual content on an issue and affecting public opinion. One topic that has been heavily debated in contemporary Hungarian media is migration. Framing starts with the label that journalists select to refer to fled people: bevándorló (“immigrant”), migráns (“migrant”) or menekült (“refugee”). Depending on the label, different associations emerge, r…
From financial support package via rescue aid to bailout: Framing the management of the Greek sovereign debt crisis
In the spring of 2010 Greece officially turned to the EU for help in order to prevent itself from a sovereign default. However, the Treaty on European Union explicitly prohibits any member state to ask for a so-called bailout (i.e., financial assistance) from the other member states or the EU itself. Thus, overnight the Greek financial crisis became a linguistic one as well: how to communicate the notion of financial assistance without implying o…
Life is a battlefield: Conceptualizations of life among Hungarian Adults
This study attempts to investigate how Hungarians think about life. By applying a nationwide representative survey of Hungarian adults, we wished to answer the following two research questions: a) what are the major metaphorical conceptualizations of life among Hungarians?; and b) what factors, such as socio-economic status and basic value orientations, might influence the prevalence for the metaphors used to talk about life? Our results suggest …
Money talks? Introduction to the special issue
Where metaphors really come from: Social factors as contextual influence in Hungarian teenagers’ metaphorical conceptualizations of life
When it comes to metaphorical conceptualizations of life, previous cognitive linguistic research has identified cultural history as the single most important factor in the selection of the source domain. Accordingly, Hungary had to constantly battle for survival, prompting Hungarians to think of life primarily in terms of struggle and compromise, resulting in a more negative mindset towards life. We investigated the validity of this claim by draw…
Current Attitudes to Ageing as Reflected in the Names of Australian Aged Care Facilities
One of the most evolving areas of euphemisms in present-day society is ageing; our main hypothesis is that this process can be accurately studied through an analysis of the naming practices of aged care facilities. Accordingly, we examined the names of aged care facilities in the Melbourne region (Australia) from 2013 and compared this to the names used in 1987. We found that the 2013 sample showed a much greater degree of euphemistic usage as co…
The Hungarian colour terms piros and vörös: A corpus and cognitive linguistic account
A number of studies have been written on the Hungarian colour terms piros and vörös, both denoting ‘red’, focusing on either one of the following questions: (1) disambiguating the meanings of the two terms; or (2) their status in Hungarian as basic colour terms. The present paper attempts to resolve these issues in one go by adopting a combined approach of corpus and cognitive linguistics. The paper makes the following three hypotheses: (1) as vö…
The Role of Alliteration and Rhyme in Novel Metaphorical and Metonymical Compounds
The playful function of language is well captured by witty (and often humorous) metaphorical and metonymical compounds that are based on phonological analogy (i.e., alliteration and/or rhyme). The main hypothesis of the article is that phonological analogy is exploited systematically in novel metaphorical and metonymical compounds, and might play an influential role in compound formation by motivating the selection of the component nouns. The art…
Just a Load of Hibber-Gibber ? Making Sense of English Rhyming Compounds
Rhyming compounds, such as helter-skelter or prime time, where the two constituents that make up the compound itself rhyme with one another, are one of the least investigated categories of English word formation. While they have been a regular feature of English for centuries, and are a common phenomenon in present-day English, too, they have often been overlooked in the literature on the grounds that they are a marginal, playful feature of the E…
Metaphor- and metonymy-based compounds in English: A cognitive linguistic approach
The paper makes the following novel claims: (1) the semantics of noun--noun compounds which is activated by metaphor and/or metonymy (often termed as "exocentric" compounds in linguistics and generally regarded as semantically opaque) can be accounted for with the help of conceptual metaphor and metonymy theory; (2) there are regular patterns of metaphor- and metonymy-based compounds, depending on which constituent is affected by conceptual metap…
Where metaphors really come from: Social factors as contextual influence in Hungarian teenagers’ metaphorical conceptualizations of life
When it comes to metaphorical conceptualizations of life, previous cognitive linguistic research has identified cultural history as the single most important factor in the selection of the source domain. Accordingly, Hungary had to constantly battle for survival, prompting Hungarians to think of life primarily in terms of struggle and compromise, resulting in a more negative mindset towards life. We investigated the validity of this claim by draw…
Migrants are not welcome: Metaphorical framing of fled people in Hungarian online media, 2015–2018
Figurative framing, in the form of metaphorical expressions, is especially effective in carrying conceptual content on an issue and affecting public opinion. One topic that has been heavily debated in contemporary Hungarian media is migration. Framing starts with the label that journalists select to refer to fled people: bevándorló (“immigrant”), migráns (“migrant”) or menekült (“refugee”). Depending on the label, different associations emerge, r…
When life is no longer a journey: The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the metaphorical conceptualization of life among Hungarian adults – a representative survey
There is ample research on how metaphors of life vary both cross-culturally and within culture, with age emerging as possibly the most significant variable with regard to the latter dimension. However, no representative research has yet been carried on whether variation can also occur across time. Our paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature by exploring whether a major crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, can induce variation in how l…
From financial support package via rescue aid to bailout: Framing the management of the Greek sovereign debt crisis
In the spring of 2010 Greece officially turned to the EU for help in order to prevent itself from a sovereign default. However, the Treaty on European Union explicitly prohibits any member state to ask for a so-called bailout (i.e., financial assistance) from the other member states or the EU itself. Thus, overnight the Greek financial crisis became a linguistic one as well: how to communicate the notion of financial assistance without implying o…
Life is a battlefield: Conceptualizations of life among Hungarian Adults
This study attempts to investigate how Hungarians think about life. By applying a nationwide representative survey of Hungarian adults, we wished to answer the following two research questions: a) what are the major metaphorical conceptualizations of life among Hungarians?; and b) what factors, such as socio-economic status and basic value orientations, might influence the prevalence for the metaphors used to talk about life? Our results suggest …
Just a Load of Hibber-Gibber ? Making Sense of English Rhyming Compounds
Rhyming compounds, such as helter-skelter or prime time, where the two constituents that make up the compound itself rhyme with one another, are one of the least investigated categories of English word formation. While they have been a regular feature of English for centuries, and are a common phenomenon in present-day English, too, they have often been overlooked in the literature on the grounds that they are a marginal, playful feature of the E…
Metaphor- and metonymy-based compounds in English: A cognitive linguistic approach
The paper makes the following novel claims: (1) the semantics of noun--noun compounds which is activated by metaphor and/or metonymy (often termed as "exocentric" compounds in linguistics and generally regarded as semantically opaque) can be accounted for with the help of conceptual metaphor and metonymy theory; (2) there are regular patterns of metaphor- and metonymy-based compounds, depending on which constituent is affected by conceptual metap…
Just a Load of Hibber-Gibber ? Making Sense of English Rhyming Compounds
Rhyming compounds, such as helter-skelter or prime time, where the two constituents that make up the compound itself rhyme with one another, are one of the least investigated categories of English word formation. While they have been a regular feature of English for centuries, and are a common phenomenon in present-day English, too, they have often been overlooked in the literature on the grounds that they are a marginal, playful feature of the E…
The Role of Alliteration and Rhyme in Novel Metaphorical and Metonymical Compounds
The playful function of language is well captured by witty (and often humorous) metaphorical and metonymical compounds that are based on phonological analogy (i.e., alliteration and/or rhyme). The main hypothesis of the article is that phonological analogy is exploited systematically in novel metaphorical and metonymical compounds, and might play an influential role in compound formation by motivating the selection of the component nouns. The art…
The Hungarian colour terms piros and vörös: A corpus and cognitive linguistic account
A number of studies have been written on the Hungarian colour terms piros and vörös, both denoting ‘red’, focusing on either one of the following questions: (1) disambiguating the meanings of the two terms; or (2) their status in Hungarian as basic colour terms. The present paper attempts to resolve these issues in one go by adopting a combined approach of corpus and cognitive linguistics. The paper makes the following three hypotheses: (1) as vö…
Current Attitudes to Ageing as Reflected in the Names of Australian Aged Care Facilities
One of the most evolving areas of euphemisms in present-day society is ageing; our main hypothesis is that this process can be accurately studied through an analysis of the naming practices of aged care facilities. Accordingly, we examined the names of aged care facilities in the Melbourne region (Australia) from 2013 and compared this to the names used in 1987. We found that the 2013 sample showed a much greater degree of euphemistic usage as co…
From financial support package via rescue aid to bailout: Framing the management of the Greek sovereign debt crisis
In the spring of 2010 Greece officially turned to the EU for help in order to prevent itself from a sovereign default. However, the Treaty on European Union explicitly prohibits any member state to ask for a so-called bailout (i.e., financial assistance) from the other member states or the EU itself. Thus, overnight the Greek financial crisis became a linguistic one as well: how to communicate the notion of financial assistance without implying o…
Life is a battlefield: Conceptualizations of life among Hungarian Adults
This study attempts to investigate how Hungarians think about life. By applying a nationwide representative survey of Hungarian adults, we wished to answer the following two research questions: a) what are the major metaphorical conceptualizations of life among Hungarians?; and b) what factors, such as socio-economic status and basic value orientations, might influence the prevalence for the metaphors used to talk about life? Our results suggest …
Money talks? Introduction to the special issue
Where metaphors really come from: Social factors as contextual influence in Hungarian teenagers’ metaphorical conceptualizations of life
When it comes to metaphorical conceptualizations of life, previous cognitive linguistic research has identified cultural history as the single most important factor in the selection of the source domain. Accordingly, Hungary had to constantly battle for survival, prompting Hungarians to think of life primarily in terms of struggle and compromise, resulting in a more negative mindset towards life. We investigated the validity of this claim by draw…
Palatal is for happiness, plosive is for sadness: Evidence for stochastic relationships between phoneme classes and sentiment polarity in Hungarian
The past couple of decades have seen a substantial increase in linguistic research that highlights the non-arbitrariness of language, as manifested in motivated sound–meaning correspondences. Yet one of the challenges of such studies is that there is a relative paucity of data-driven analyses, especially in the case of languages other than English, such as Hungarian, even though the proportion of at least partially motivated words in Hungarian vo…
Visual Metaphors
Migrants are not welcome: Metaphorical framing of fled people in Hungarian online media, 2015–2018
Figurative framing, in the form of metaphorical expressions, is especially effective in carrying conceptual content on an issue and affecting public opinion. One topic that has been heavily debated in contemporary Hungarian media is migration. Framing starts with the label that journalists select to refer to fled people: bevándorló (“immigrant”), migráns (“migrant”) or menekült (“refugee”). Depending on the label, different associations emerge, r…
Visual Metaphors
Journal Article Visual Metaphors Get access Visual Metaphors Michalle Gal London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2022. pp. 224. £28.99 (PBK). Réka Benczes Réka Benczes Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The British Journal of Aesthetics, ayad034, https://doi.org/10.1093/aesthj/ayad034 Published: 05 April 2024
Universality versus variation in the conceptualization of anger: A question of methodology
Cognitive linguistic investigations into the metaphorical conceptualization of anger suggest that languages are remarkably similar on a schematic level, with intensity and control as two, possibly universal dimensions underlying the metaphorical conceptualization of anger. These dimensions, however, can manifest themselves in language-specific metaphors. Yet arriving at a definitive answer to the question of universality versus variation is hinde…
When life is no longer a journey: The effect of the Covid-19 pandemic on the metaphorical conceptualization of life among Hungarian adults – a representative survey
There is ample research on how metaphors of life vary both cross-culturally and within culture, with age emerging as possibly the most significant variable with regard to the latter dimension. However, no representative research has yet been carried on whether variation can also occur across time. Our paper attempts to fill this gap in the literature by exploring whether a major crisis, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, can induce variation in how l…
Don’t worry, be a senior?” The metaphorical labelling of late-life depression in Australian news media
Since the late 1980s, there has been a reconceptualization of ageing, which is also reflected in how older adults are referred to. Research on Australian English indicates that while the label seniors activates positive associations of health and well-being, the characteristics related to the label the elderly are generally negative. The question is whether this difference in semantic stereotyping is also extended to how a heavily stigmatized and…
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