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Németh T. Enikő - Curriculum vitae

Curriculum vitae

ENIKŐ NÉMETH T.

Qualifications

  • 1987: JATE Faculty of Arts, Russian Language and Literature secondary teacher  General and Applied Linguistics major, with honours (certificate no.: 61/1987, 19 June 1987)
  • 01.09.1987-31.08.1990: Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Scientific Qualification Committee (TMB) scholarship at the JATE, Faculty of Arts, Department of General Linguistics, supervisor: Porf. dr. Sándor Károly

Languages:

  • Russian: advance level (C1) language exam (certificate no.: 61/1987, 17 June 1987)
  • English: intermediate level (B2) language exam (certificate no.: Á 003367/1988, 28 June 1988)
  • German: school leaving exam, certificate no. B-16/1982, 17.06.1982

Academic degree:

  • 1992: CSc (PhD) in Linguistics, certificate no.: 14.291, 18 February 1993. Title of the dissertation: A megnyilatkozás-típussal kapcsolatos elméleti kérdések és a szóbeli diskurzusok megnyilatkozás-példányokra tagolása [Theoretical questions regarding utterance type and segmentation of spoken discourse into utterance tokens]
  • 2017: DSc, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, certificate no.: 5415, 6 December, 2017. Title of the dissertation: Interaction between grammar and pragmatics: the case of implicit subject and direct object arguments in Hungarian language use

Habilitation:

  • 2016: Habilitation in Linguistics, University of Szeged, Certificate no. 15/2016., 10 November.

Workplaces, positions:

  • 01.09.1987–31.08.1990: Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Scientific Qualification Committee (TMB) scholarship fellow at the JATE, Faculty of Arts, Department of General Linguistics.
  • 01.09.1990–30.06.1992: Assistant Lecturer at the JATE, Faculty of Arts, Department of General Linguistics
  • 01.07.1992–30.06.1997: Assistant Professor at the JATE, Faculty of Arts, Department of General Linguistics
  • Since 01.07.1997: indefinite period appointment, Associate Professor at the JATE, Faculty of Arts (and its successor University of Szeged), Department of General Linguistics
  • 01.02.2013–30.06.2013: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Linguistics, definite appointment, senior research fellow receiving Hajdú Péter Guest Researcher Scholarship.
  • 01.07.2013–31.08.2017: Head of Department, Associate Professor at the University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts, Department of General Linguistics
  • Since 01.09.2017– Head of Department, Full Professor at the University of Szeged, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences

Scientific work:

Achieved scientific scholarships:

Name of the scholarship place period
Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Scientific Qualification Committee (TMB) scholarship JATE, Department of General Linguistics 1987-1990
Soros Foundation Scholarship Presentation at the conference entitled Organization in discourse in Turku, Finland 1994
Széchenyi Professor Scholarship University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts, Department of General Linguistics 2000-2003
Pro Renovanda Cultura Hungaricae Science in Education Foundation Scholarship University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts, Department of General Linguistics 2001
Hungarian Academy of Sciences Bolyai János Research Scholarship University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts, Department of General Linguistics 2004-2007
Hajdú Péter Guest Researcher Scholarship Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Linguistics 2013

Earned academic and professional awards

Name of the award/honour year of the award/honour received donor of the award/honour
National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference special first prize 1987 National Council of Student Research Societies
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Young Researchers Contest, second prize 1989 Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Regional Committee of Szeged, young researchers’ outstanding work award 2000 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Academic Committee of Szeged (SZAB)
Academic Award 2020 Hungarian Academy of Sciences

Publications:

Electronic accessibility of the publication- and the reference list:

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Participation as presenter at national and international conferences

(a) domestic conferences: 30

Title of the presentation name and organiser of the conference year place participation form
1 The role of conjunctions and speech-phonetic tools in the study of utterance boundary National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference, National Council of Student Research Societies 1987 Pécs presentation in Hungarian
2 Segmentation of spoken language corpora into utterance tokens II Applied Linguistics Conference, MANYE 1992 Szeged presentation in Hungarian
3 Study of pragmatic function of conjunctions 6th International Congress of Hungarian Linguists, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Linguistics, Society of Hungarian Linguistics, Eszterházy Károly College 1994 Eger presentation in Hungarian
4 Implicit arguments from a pragmatic aspect Recent methods of the description of Modern Hungarian III,JATE Department of Hungarian Linguistics and Department of General Linguistics 1997 Szeged presentation in Hungarian
5 Report for the young researchers’ outstanding work award Szeged Conference at the Hungarian Science Day, Academic Committee of Szeged (SZAB) 2000 Szeged invited presentation in Hungarian
6 Implicit arguments in Hungarian Symposium on Principles, rules, methods characteristic of natural languages – complex approachUniversity of Szeged, Department of General Linguistics 2000 Szeged presentation in Hungarian
7 Interaction of lexical and contextual information in utterance construction Recent methods of the description of Modern Hungarian V, University of Szeged, Department of Hungarian Linguistics and Department of General Linguistics 2001 Szeged presentation in Hungarian (with Károly Bibok)
8 Rationality and interpersonality principles in communication Communication Research 2002University of Szeged, Department of Media and Communication, Academic Committee of Szeged (SZAB) 2002 Szeged invited presentation in Hungarian
9 From ostensive-inferential communication to verbal communication Communication Research 2003
University of Szeged, Department of Media and Communication		 2003 Szeged invited presentation in Hungarian
10 Notes for Péter Pelyvás’ presentation on System- or user-friendly grammar Perspectives of Semantics WorkshopHungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Linguistics 2005 Budapest invited presentation in Hungarian
11 Saussure and Chomsky: the difference of “identical” views Ferdinand de Saussure and his impact – The first hundred years, scientific sessionHungarian Academy of Sciences, Section of Linguistics and Literary Scholarship 2006 Budapest invited presentation in Hungarian
12 Interaction of grammar and pragmatics in view of implicit arguments Conference on Language Theory and UseELTE and Kodolányi János College 2006 Budapest presentation
13 Theories on language use at the turn of the millennium: pragmatic-sociolinguistics-discourse-analysis Our theories around 2000, Academic Committee of Szeged (SZAB) 2006 Szeged presentation in Hungarian (with Anna Fenyvesi)
14 Out of the wastebasket: the place of pragmatics and its issues in modern linguistics Presentations at SZTE Móra Ferenc Dormitory University of Szeged, Móra Ferenc Dormitory 2006 Szeged invited presentation in Hungarian
15 Intention in pragmatics: various forms of language use General Linguistics Section’s reading sessionsSociety of Hungarian Linguistics 2007 Budapest invited presentation in Hungarian
16 MTA-DE-PTE-SZTE Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics Our Research Groups ConferenceAcademic Committee of Szeged (SZAB) 2009 Szeged invited presentation in Hungarian
17 On discourse markers Roundtable discussion about discourse markersSociety of Hungarian Linguistics 2011 Budapest roundtable presentation, discussion in Hungarian
18 My Pragmatic Research Pragmatic Research in Hungary Roundtable discussion, Society of Hungarian Linguistics 2012 Budapest roundtable presentation, discussion, moderator in Hungarian
19 Pragmatics at the University of Szeged Pragmatic Research in Hungary – continuation Roundtable discussion, University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts 2012 Szeged roundtable presentation, discussion, moderator in Hungarian
20 Report on the operation of the Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics Pragmatics Roundtable, DE, Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics 2014 Debrecen presentation in Hungarian
21 Intentions, perspectives and social forms of language use Debrecen University Symposium, The cultural heritage and innovations in humanities in the 21st centuryDE 2014 Debrecen invited presentation in Hungarian
22 Report on the operation of the Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics Pragmatics Roundtable, KRE, Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics 2015 Budapest roundtable presentation, discussion, moderator in Hungarian
23 Report on the operation of the Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics Pragmatics Roundtable, PPKE, Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics 2016 Piliscsaba presentation in Hungarian
24 Interaction between gram-mar and pragmatics in the study of implicit arguments Eötvös Loránd Kollégium Linguistics Workshop 2016 Szeged invited presentation in Hungarian
25. Report on the operation of the Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics Pragmatics Roundtable, Institute for Linguistics, HAAS, Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics 2017 Budapest presentation in Hungarian
26. Report on the operation of the Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics Pragmatics Roundtable University of Pécs, Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics 2018 Pécs presentation in Hungarian
27. Implicit subject and direct object arguments in Hungarian language use Academic Committee of Szeged (SZAB) 2019 Szeged presentation in Hungarian
28. Interaction between grammar and pragmatics: Implicit subject and direct object arguments in Hungarian language use Hungarian Academy of Sciences 2019 Budapest invited presentation in Hungarian
29. What is missing in corpora: implicit pragmatic phenomena Grammar, discourse, cognition. ELTE University, Budapest 2019 Budapest presentation in Hungarian (with Zsuzsanna Németh and Katalin Nagy C.)
30. Report on the operation of the Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatis University of Szeged, Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics 2020 Szeged presentation in Hungarian

(b) international conferences: 19

Title of the presentation name and organiser of the conference year place participation form
1 On the role of pragmatic connectives in Hungarian spoken discourses International Conference on Organization in Discourse, University of Turku 1994 Turku, Finland presentation in English
2 Implicit arguments in Hungarian 6th International Pragmatics Con-ference, International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 1998 Reims, France presentation in English (with Károly Bibok)
3 Types and reasons of communicative failures: A relevance theoretical approach 6th International Pragmatics Conference,IPrA 1998 Reims, France presentation in English (with Lívia Ivaskó)
4 Pragmatics and the flexibility of word meaning 7th International Pragmatics Conference,IPrA 2000 Budapest panel organiser (with Károly Bibok)
5 Interaction between lexical and contextual information in the interpretation of utterances 7th International Pragmatics Conference,IPrA 2000 Budapest presentation (with Károly Bibok)
6 Ostensionsign usecommunication Verbal and non-verbal communication, Szarvas Gábor Linguistic Days, Szarvas Gábor Linguistic Association for the Hungarian Language 2003 Ada, Serbia invited presentation in Hungarian
7 Verbal information transmission without communicative intention 9th International Pragmatics Conference,IPrA 2005 Riva del Garda, Italy presentation in English
8 Interaction between grammar and pragmatics: The case of implicit arguments, implicit predicates and co-composition in Hungarian 10th International Pragmatics Conference,IPrA 2007 Göteborg, Sweden presentation in English (with Károly Bibok)
9 Lexical-semantic properties and contextual factors in the use of verbs of work with implicit subject arguments in Hungarian 4th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication, Comillas Pontifical University 2010 Madrid, Spain presentation in English
10 How contextual information intrudes into grammar: subjectless weather verbs or weather verbs with implicit subject arguments in Hungarian 12th International Pragmatics Conference, IPrA 2011 Manchester, United Kingdom presentation in English
11 The outlines of a theory and technology of human–computer interaction as represented in the model of the HuComTech project CogInfoCom Conference, BME 2011 Budapest presentation in English (with László Hunyadi, Kornél Bertók, István Szekrényes, Ágnes Abuczki, Gábor Nagy, Norbert Nagy, Péter Németi, Alexa Bódog)
12 On pragmatic models of human multimodal communication The theoretical fundamentals of human-computer interaction technologies conference,DE, TÁMOP-4.2.2.-08/1/2008-2009 2011 Debrecen presentation in English
13 Models of human multimodal communication and the human-computer interaction The theoretical fundamentals of human-computer interaction technologies conference,DE, TÁMOP-4.2.2.-08/1/2008-2009 2011 Debrecen presentation in English
14 On the relationship between theory and data in modelling human computer interaction The theoretical fundamentals of human-computer interaction technologies conference,DE, TÁMOP-4.2.2.-08/1/2008-2009 2011 Debrecen presentation in English
15 Intentions and perspectives in language use 19th International Congress of Linguists,Société Suisse de Linguistique, University of Geneva 2013 Geneva, Switzerland presentation in English
16 Theoretical and methodological issues of the research into implicit arguments in Hungarian 6th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication, University of Malta 2014 Valetta, Malta presentation in English
17 Linguistic and contextual clues of intentions and perspectives in social forms of language use 13th International Pragmatics Conference, IPrA 2015 Antwerp, Belgium presentation in English
18. Implicit plural pronominal objects in Hungarian language use 15th International Pragmatics Conference, IPrA 2017 Belfast, Northern Ireland presentation in English
19. Fuzzy boundaries in analyzing discourses: merging various data analysis techniques Discourse Net 20 2018 Budapest presentation in English (with Zsuzsanna Németh and Katalin Nagy C.)

Organising national and international conferences

(a) domestic conferences: 26

Name of the conference organiser year place participation form
1 Recent methods of the description of Modern Hungarian III JATE Department of Hungarian Linguistics and Department of General Linguistics 1997 Szeged member of the organising committee
2nd Conference of PhD Students in Linguistics (LingDok) JATE Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program 1997 Szeged member of the organising committee
3rd Conference of PhD Students in Linguistics (LingDok) JATE Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program 1998 Szeged member of the organising committee
4th Conference of PhD Students in Linguistics (LingDok) JATE Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program 1999 Szeged member of the organising committee
5th Conference of PhD Students in Linguistics (LingDok) University of Szeged, Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program 2000 Szeged member of the organising committee
6 Symposium on Principles, rules, methods characteristic of natural languages – complex approach University of Szeged, Department of General Linguistics 2000 Szeged member of the organising committee
7 Recent methods of the description of Modern Hungarian IV University of Szeged, Department of Hungarian Linguistics and Department of General Linguistics 2001 Szeged member of the organising committee
8th Conference of PhD Students in Linguistics (LingDok) University of Szeged, Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program 2001 Szeged member of the organising committee
9th Conference of PhD Students in Linguistics (LingDok) University of Szeged, Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program 2002 Szeged member of the organising committee
10th Conference of PhD Students in Linguistics (LingDok) University of Szeged, Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program 2003 Szeged member of the organising committee
11th Conference of PhD Students in Linguistics (LingDok) University of Szeged, Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program 2004 Szeged member of the organising committee
12th Conference of PhD Students in Linguistics (LingDok) University of Szeged, Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program 2005 Szeged member of the organising committee
13th Conference of PhD Students in Linguistics (LingDok) University of Szeged, Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program 2006 Szeged member of the organising committee
14 Our theories around 2000 Academic Committee of Szeged (SZAB) 2006 Szeged member of the organising committee
15 Our Research Groups Conference Academic Committee of Szeged (SZAB) 2009 Szeged member of the organising committee
16 Pragmatic Research in Hungary Roundtable discussion Society of Hungarian Linguistics 2012 Budapest organiser and moderator
17 Pragmatic Research in Hungary – continuation Roundtable discussion University of Szeged, 2012 Szeged organiser and moderator
18 Pragmatics Roundtable DE, Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics 2014 Debrecen member of the organising committee
19 Novelties in semantic and pragmatic research University of Szeged, Department of General Linguistics 2014 Szeged member of the organising committee
20 Pragmatics Roundtable KRE, Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics 2015 Budapest member of the organising committee
21 Novelties in semantic and pragmatic research University of Szeged, Department of General Linguistics 2015 Szeged member of the organising committee
22 Pragmatics Roundtable PPKE, Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics 2016 Piliscsaba member of the organising committee
23 Novelties in semantic and pragmatic research University of Szeged, Department of General Linguistics 2017. Szeged member of the organising committee
24 Pragmatics Roundtable Research Institute for Linguistics, HAAS, Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics 2017 Budapest member of the organising committee
25 Novelties in semantic and pragmatic research. University of Szeged, Department of General Linguistics 2018 Szeged member of the organising committee
26 Pragmatics Roundtable University of Pécs, Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics 2018 Pécs member of the organising committee
27 Pragmatics Roundtable University of Szeged, Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics 2020 Szeged member of the organising committee

(b) international conferences: 12

Name of the conference organiser year place participation form
1) 7th International Pragmatics Conference IPrA 2000 Budapest member of the organising com-mittee, panel org.
2) 8th International Pragmatics Conference IPrA 2003 Toronto, Canada member of the organising committee
3) 3rd International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics Stellenbosch University 2007 Stellenbosch, Republic of South Africa member of the scientific committee
4) 9th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian University of Debrecen 2009 Debrecen member of the scientific committee
5) 4th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics Comillas University 2010 Madrid, Spain member of the scientific committee
6) 10th International Conference on the Structure of Hungarian Lund University 2011 Lund University member of the scientific committee
7) 5th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics Charlotte University, AMPrA 2012 Charlotte, USA member of the scientific committee
8) 19th International Congress of Linguists Société Suisse de Linguistique, University of Geneva 2013 Geneva, Switzerland member of the scientific committee
9) 6th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics University of Malta 2014 Valetta, Malta member of the scientific committee
10) 7th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics University of Split 2016 Split, Croatia member of the scientific committee
11) 4th International Conference of the American Pragmatics Association (AMPRA) American Pragmatics Association 2018 Albany, NY, U.S. member of the scientific committee
12) 9th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication – INPRA 2020 The University of Queensland 2021 Brisbane, Australia member of the scientific committee

Participation in national and international research projects as supervisor or as contributing researcher

Announcer of the tender awarded title year awarded amount form of participation (supervisor/contributing researcher)
1 OTKA, T-17263 Verbal argument stuctures in Hun-garian. Manager: István Kenesei 1994-1999 3,500,000 HUF contributing researcher
2 FKFP 680/1997 Syntax and semantics of lexical argument structure. Manager: István Kenesei 1997-1999 3,000,000 HUF contributing researcher
3 OTKA, T-029590 Principles, rules, methods characteristic of natural languages – complex approach. Manager: Márta Maleczki 1999-2001 4,825,000 HUF contributing researcher
4 Pro Renovanda Cultura Hungaricae Science in Education Foundation Scholarship Pragmatics and the flexibility of word meaning research project with international cooperation. Manager: Enikő Németh T. 2000-2001 100,000 HUF supervisor
5 Hungarian Academy of Sciences: MTA-DE-PTE-SZTE Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics The problem of evidence in theoretical linguistics. Manager: András Kertész 2006-2011 50,000,000 HUF contributing researcher, Szeged workgroup team leader
6 TÁMOP-4.2.2-08/1-2008-0015 Theoretical foundations of the technology of human-machine communication Manager: László Hunyadi 2009-2011 282,458,349 HUF contributing researcher, leader of the communication sub-project since 2010
7 TÁMOP-4.2.1/B-09/1/KONV-2010-0005 Founding the Research University Centre of Excellence at the University of Szeged Program director: Tibor Kovács 2010-2012 2,856,331,580 HUF contributing researcher
8 TÁMOP-4.2.2/B-10/1-2010-0012 Extending the knowledge base of the Research University Centre of Excellence at the University of Szeged and establishment of long-term professional sustainability by providing an excellent next generation of scientists. Project manager: Norbert Buzás 2011-2013 883,720,206 HUF contributing researcher
9 OTKA NK 100804 Comprehensive Hungarian grammar. Manager: István Kenesei 2012-2016 89,530,000 HUF contributing researcher
10 Hungarian Academy of Sciences: MTA-DE-SZTE Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics Integration of data types in theoretical linguistics. Manager: András Kertész 2012-2017 100,000,000 HUF contributing researcher, Szeged workgroup team leader
11 TÁMOP-4.2.1.D-15/1/KONV-2015-0002 Founding services which will serve the demands of knowledge industry in the Southern Great Plain region. Project manager: Gyöngyi Gila 01.04.2015–31.10.2015 298,352,830 HUF contributing researcher, professional manager of the 9 course development project at SZTE Faculty of Arts
12. EFOP-3.6.1-16-2016-00008 Characteristics of language use of patients with stroke, with a special focus on diagnostics and rehabilitation. Manager: Lívia Ivaskó 2017.03.01.-2021.02.28. 100 000 000 Ft senior contributing researcher
Hungarian Academy of Sciences: MTA-DE-PTE-SZTE Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics Divergence of evidence in theoretical linguistics. Manager: András Kertész 2017.07.01.-2022.06.30. 22 000 000 Ft contributing researcher, Szeged workgroup team leader

National, foreign, international scientific bodies, societies

(a) officer

Name of the society office from–to
Academic Committee of Szeged (SZAB), Linguistics Working Committee secretary 1993-1999
Academic Committee of Szeged (SZAB), Linguistics Working Committee president 1999-2004
Academic Committee of Szeged (SZAB), Language and Literature Committee secretary 2004-2011
Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics manager president since 2012
Society of Hungarian Linguistics, Pragmatics Division president since 2012
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Linguistic Committee responsible for books since 2015

(b) member

Name of the society office from–to
International Pragmatics Association member since 1990
Society of Hungarian Linguistics member since 1992
The Society for Modern Philology member since 1992
Hungarian Academy of Sciences public body member since 1994
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Committee on Linguistics member since 1999
Hungarian Academy of Sciences, General Assembly non-academic general assembly representative since 2016
University of Szeged Doctoral Council member as representative of “Linguistics” since 2016
Society of Hungarian Linguistics caucus member since 2016
Council of professors, University of Szeged, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences member since 2017

Professional and administrative executive appointments

Name of the mandate from–to
University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts, Department of General Linguistics, Scientific Students’ Association, teacher leader 1990-2010
MTA-DE-PTE-SZTE Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics, Szeged workgroup team leader 2006-2011
University of Szeged, Doctoral School of Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program leader since 2007
University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts, Department of General Linguistics, Deputy Head of Department 2012-2013
MTA-DE Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics, Szeged workgroup team leader 2012-2017
Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics, director since 2012
University of Szeged, Faculty of Arts, Department of General Linguistics, Head of Department 2013-
University of Szeged, Doctoral School of Linguistics, head since 2018-

Editing domestic and foreign journals and book series

Name of the journal/book series editor/editing committee member from–to
Current Issues in Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, London, etc.) Vol. 8. Pragmatics and the flexibility of word meaning co-editor 2000-2001
Studies in General Linguistics XX Studies in Pragmatics co-editor 2002-2003
Intercultural Pragmatics (Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York) editing committee member since 2004
Acta Linguistica Hungarica 2004/3-4., 2005/1-2. double volumes with pragmatic topics co-editor 2004-2005
Recent methods of the description of Modern Hungarian VII co-editor 2007-2009
Intercultural Pragmatics (Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York) 9 The role of data at the semantics-pragmatics interface co-editor 2009-2010
Pragmatic Interfaces (London, Equinox Publishing Company) co-founder and co-editor since 2011
Magyar Nyelv [Hungarian Language] 2013/2 Pragmatic special issue co-editor 2013
Nyelvtudomány [Linguistics] journal editing committee member since 2013
Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat [Meaning and Language Use] journal co-founder and co-editor since 2014

Contacts with foreign scientific and academic institutions, internationally acknowledged professionals

Selection of outstanding professional relationships:

Name of the professional/institution nature of the relationship time frame
Jef Verschueren (University of Antwerp, Antwerpen, Belgium), IPrA secretary general Cooperation in organising 7th International Pragmatics Conference (Budapest, 1999-2000) and 8th International Pragmatics Conference (Toronto, 2001-2003); cooperation in editing Cognition in language use and Pragmatics in 2000 (Antwerp: IPrA, 2001) invitation to the Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics in 2016 since 1999
Thorstein Fretheim retired professor (University of Trondheim, Norway) One of the panel participants at the 7th International Pragmatics Conference, Pragmatics and the flexibility of word meaning panel, co-edited with Károly Bibok two volumes, Pragmatics and the flexibility of word meaning (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001) and author of The role of data at the semantics-pragmatics interface (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2010). since 2000
Reinhard Blutner retired professor (Humboldt University, Berlin and University of Amsterdam) One of the panel participants at the 7th International Pragmatics Conference, Pragmatics and the flexibility of word meaning panel, co-edited with Károly Bibok two volumes, Pragmatics and the flexibility of word meaning (Amsterdam: Elsevier, 2001) and author of The role of data at the semantics-pragmatics interface (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2010). since 2000
István Kecskés professor (University at Albany, USA) Cooperation as editing committee member, author, reviewer and opponent in Intercultural Pragmatics journal with István Kecskés as journal editor and editor-in-chief of the book series Mouton Series in Pragmatics (Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York). since 2003
Michael Haugh professor (Griffith University, Australia) Cooperation as author in Intercultural Pragmatics (de Gruyter, Berlin and New York) journal with Michael Haugh as editor-in-chief of Intentions in pragmatics special edition. Cooperation as reviewer with Michael Haugh as editor-in-chief of Journal of Pragmatics (Elsevier, Amsterdam) journal. Michael Haugh was co-author of The role of data at the semantics-pragmatics interface (Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter, 2010). since 2007
Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt professor (Cambridge University) As editor of book series Pragmatics Interfaces (Equinox Publishing Company, London) cooperation with Katarzyna M. Jaszczolt as editing committee member, cooperation as author with her as the editor of the series Current Issues in Semantics-Pragmatics Interface (Elsevier, Amsterdam), professional consultation regarding volumes about the semantics-pragmatics interface. since 2000
Laurence R. Horn professor (Yale University) Cooperation with Laurence R. Horn as organiser of 19th International Congress of Linguists conference as participant of the Pragmatics, Discourse, and Cognition section. 2012-2013
Stavros Assimakopoulos Associate Professor (University of Malta) As scientific committee member of 6th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication cooperation with Stavros Assimakopoulos as chief organiser of the conference and cooperation with him as editor of conference volume at the Benjamins publisher since 2013
Hatice Celebi researcher (MEF University, Istanbul) Cooperation and professional consultation as editor of Pragmatic Interfaces (Equinox, London) book series with Hatice Celebi as the author of one of the volumes. since 2013
Sukriye Ruhi professor (MEF University, Istanbul) Cooperation and professional consultation as editor of Pragmatic Interfaces (Equinox, London) book series with Sukriye Ruhi as the member of the scientific committee and the reviewer one of the volumes, as well as the author of Pragmatics in 2000 (IPrA, Antwerp, 2000) volume which I was the editor of. since 2000
Melody Chang researcher (Griffith University, Australia) Cooperation and professional consultation as editor of Pragmatic Interfaces (Equinox, London) book series with Melody Chang as the author of one of the volumes. since 2013
Henk Maarten de Jongste presenter and researcher (University of Applied Sciences and Arts, Dortmund, Germany) Professional consultations regarding the role of intention in language use, especially humour. since 2013
Andrea Erdélyi professor (Carl von Ossietzky Universität, Oldenburg, Germany) Professional cooperation and preparation of Erasmus connection in the field of neurolinguistics and pragmatics. since 2015

Reviewer and opponent activities:

  • Since 1992: Theses, National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference papers, Academic Committee of Szeged paper reviews.
  • Since 1995: Expert review at the request of Imre H. Tóth for JATE Press: Draft for the textbook entitled History of Linguistics till the beginning of 20th century.
  • Since 1995: Review of linguistic OTKA-applications (awarding applications, evaluation of expired applications).
  • 2001: Review of academic linguistic research application for the I. Section of Linguistics and Literary Scholarship.
  • Since 2000–2001: Review of linguistic and sociological NKFP applications for the Ministry of Education.
  • Since 2006: Expert review of ERC applications.

Reviewing activities for scientific journals, books:

Reviewing linguistic papers for journals:

  • Általános Nyelvészeti Tanulmányok [Studies in General Linguistics]; LingDok; Nyelvtudományi Közlemények [Linguistics Publications]; Intercultural Pragmatics; Journal of Historical Pragmatics; Journal of Linguistics; Journal of Pragmatics, Lingua.

Reviewing linguistic papers for books and book series published abroad:

  • Enikő Németh T. (ed.) Cognition in language use: Selected papers from the 7th International Pragmatics Conference, Vol. 1., Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association, 2001.
  • Enikő Németh T. (ed.) Pragmatics in 2000: Selected papers from the 7th International Pragmatics Conference, Vol. 2., Antwerp: International Pragmatics Association, 2001.
  • István Kenesei and Robert M. Harnish (eds.) Perspectives on Semantics, Pragmatics, and Discourse, Amsterdam: Benjamins, 2001.
  • István Kecskés (ed.) Several volumes of Mouton Series in Pragmatics book series

Reviews of book proposals for foreign publishers:

  • Mouton de Gruyter 2011, 2012.

Editing activities:

Journal:

  • Since 2004: Intercultural Pragmatics (Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York), editing committee member.
  • 2004–2005: Acta Linguistica Hungarica 2004/3-4., 2005/1-2. double volumes with pragmatic topics, guest editor with Károly Bibok.
  • 2013: Magyar Nyelv [Hungarian Language] 2013/2, co-editor with Szilárd Tátrai.
  • Since 2013: Nyelvtudomány [Linguistics], co-editor with Marianne Bakró-Nagy and Tamás Forgács.
  • Since 2014: Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat [Meaning and Language Use] journal, co-editor with Márta Maleczki and Tibor Szécsényi.

Books:

  • 2001: Cognition in language use: Selected papers from the 7th International Pragmatics Conference. Vol. 1., International Pragmatics Association, Antwerp, 480 pp.
  • 2001: Pragmatics in 2000: Selected papers from the 7th International Pragmatics Conference. Vol. 2., International Pragmatics Association, Antwerp, 660 pp.
  • 2001: Pragmatics and the flexibility of word meaning. (Co-editor: Károly Bibok), CRiSPI 8, Elsevier Science Publishers, Amsterdam, London, etc., 342 pp.
  • 2003: Általános Nyelvészeti Tanulmányok XX. [Studies in General Linguistics XX. Studies in Pragmatics.] (Co-editor: Bibok Károly), Akadémiai Kiadó, Budapest, 328 lap.
  • 2009: A mai magyar nyelv leírásának újabb módszerei VII. [Recent methods of the description of Modern Hungarian VII.] (Co-editor: Márta Maleczki), SZTE Department of General Linguistics, Szeged, 226 pp.
  • 2010: The role of data at the semantics-pragmatics interface. (Co-editor: Károly Bibok), Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin, New York, 426 pp.
  • 2011: Ember–gép kommunikáció [Human-machine connection.] Tinta Könyvkiadó, Budapest, 208 pp.
  • 2015: Használat és hatás [Use and effect] (Co-editors: Alexa Bódog, Péter Csatár and Zoltán Vecsey). Budapest: Loisir Kiadó, 231 pp.
  • 2019: Hugó, Amália és néhány kutya a relációk hálójában. [Hugó, Amália and some dogs in the net of relations](Co-editors: Lívia Ivaskó and Tibor Szécsényi). Szeged, Jelentés és Nyelvhasználat 6. Szeged, JatePress.

Book series:

  • Since 2011: Pragmatic Interfaces (Sheffield, Equinox Publishing Company) (Co-editors: Dániel Zoltán Kádár and Károly Bibok).

Special fields of interest:

Theory of language:

  1. The relationship and interaction between grammar and pragmatics. 
  2. Occurrence and identification of implicit arguments in Hungarian language use.

Pragmatics:

  1. Recent developments in philosophical pragmatics.
  2. Cognitive pragmatics.
  3. Different principles and various forms of language use.
  4. Features of communicative language use. 
  5. Intentions and perspectives in language use.

Discourse analysis:

  1. Segmentation of spoken language corpora into utterance tokens.
  2. Pragmatic coherence of discourse.
  3. Discourse markers.

History of linguistics, especially of 20th century.

Teaching activities:

  • Since 1987: Regular teaching activities, teaching lectures and seminars at JATE and its successor University of Szeged, for majors of general and applied linguistics, general linguistics, theoretical linguistics and later theoretical MA courses.
  • 1992-1996: Lectures and seminars for JATE journalism majors.
  • Since 1995: Lectures at JATE and its successor University of Szeged, Doctoral School of Linguistics.
  • Since 1997: Lectures at JATE and its successor University of Szeged, second degree Hungarian majors.
  • 2000−2002: Guest lectures at ELTE theoretical linguistics undergraduate and postgraduate courses in English.
  • 2002: Guest lectures at Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comprati in Venice, within the framework of Erasmus program, in English.
  • 2002−2010: Lectures at SZTE Psychology and Cognitive Science programs.
  • 2004: Guest lectures at the University of Novi Sad Department of Hungarian Language and Literature within the sister university lecturer exchange program.
  • Since 2007: Lectures and seminars for BA and MA majors in Communication Studies and Hungarian Studies.

On a graduate level:

Taught courses (as documented in SZTE ETR and Neptun system since 2001):

  • Since 1987: Pragmatics (introduction) lecture (in the previous one-tier model for General Linguistics majors, for BA majors in Communication Studies, as well as an elective course for all students)
  • 1990-1995: Phonetics, phonology lecture and seminar (in the previous one-tier model for General Linguistics majors).
  • 1990-1995: Field work seminar (in the previous one-tier model for General Linguistics majors)
  • 1991-1997: Cognitive science lecture (in the previous one-tier model for General Linguistics majors).
  • Since 1991: Pragmatics (advanced) lecture (in the previous one-tier model for General Linguistics majors, later for Theoretical Linguistics and Psychology MA majors).
  • Since 1991: Discourse analysis lecture and seminar (in the previous one-tier model for General Linguistics majors, later for Hungarian Studies, Theoretical Linguistics and Communication Studies BA and MA majors)
  • Since 1992: History of linguistics, and Trends in the history of linguistics (in the previous one-tier model for General Linguistics majors, later for Theoretical Linguistics, Hungarian Studies, Russian Studies MA majors)
  • Since 1996: Thesis, i.e. thesis writing seminar (in the previous one-tier model for General Linguistics majors, later for Hungarian Studies, Theoretical Linguistics and Communication Studies BA and MA majors)
  • 1997-2009: Semantics/pragmatics lecture (one-tier secondary teacher of Hungarian supplementary correspondence training, jointly with Márta Maleczki, in my part)
  • 1997-2000: History of linguistics in the 20th century (in the previous one-tier model for General Linguistics majors)
  • 1998–2001: Philosophy of Language lecture (in the previous one-tier model for General Linguistics majors)
  • Since 1999: Research practice seminar (in the previous one-tier model for General Linguistics majors)
  • 2000−2002: Discourse analysis in English (guest lecture at ELTE theoretical linguistics course and PhD program for Hungarian and foreign students)
  • 2000−2002: Pragmatics in English (guest lecture at ELTE theoretical linguistics course and PhD program for Hungarian and foreign students)
  • 2000−2002: Discourse analysis in English (guest lecture at ELTE theoretical linguistics course and PhD program for Hungarian and foreign students)
  • 2006: Questions about the world of language–answers from linguistics seminar (for BA majors in Hungarian Studies, as well as an elective course for all students, with Ágnes Lerch and Márta Maleczki, in my part)
  • 2006: Introduction to linguistics lecture (for BA majors in Hungarian Studies, with Ágnes Lerch and Márta Maleczki, in my part)
  • 2007: Language technology: the mystery of discourse seminar (for BA majors in Hungarian Studies, with Ágnes Lerch, in my part)
  • Since 2008: Advanced Pragmatics lecture (for MA majors in Theoretical Linguistics and Communication Studies)
  • Since 2008: Theories of Pragmatics lecture (for MA majors in Theoretical Linguistics and Communication Studies)
  • Since 2008: Linguistics practice seminar (MA courses)
  • Since 2014: Supervisor consultation (for BA and MA majors in Hungarian Studies, Theoretical Linguistics and Communication Studies)
  • Since 2019: Introduction to linguistics (for BA in Hungarian Studies and Foreign Languages).

Responsibilities for subjects, specialisations, majors:

Responsibility for subjects in the previous one-tier model for General Linguistics and Theoretical Linguistics majors:

  • Pragmatics subject: Pragmatics I (introduction lecture), Pragmatics II (advanced lecture) courses
  • Phonetics and phonology subject: Phonetics, phonology I (lecture), Phonology, morphology II (lecture) courses
  • Field work subject: Field work I (seminar), Field work II (seminar) courses
  • Cognitive science subject: Cognitive science (lecture) course
  • Discourse analysis subject: Discourse analysis I (lecture), Discourse analysis II (seminar) courses
  • History of linguistics subject: History of linguistics (lecture), 20th century history of linguistics (lecture) courses.
  • Research practices subject: Research practices (seminar) course

Subject responsibility, Theoretical Linguistics MA:

  • Pragmatics subject: Pragmatics (lecture), Advanced pragmatics (lecture), Advanced pragmatics (seminar), Pragmatic theories (lecture) courses, Discourse analysis (seminar) courses
  • Research practices subject: Research practices (seminar) course
  • Trends in the history of linguistics subject: Trends in the history of linguistics (lecture) course

Subject responsibility, Communication Studies MA:

  • Pragmatics subject: Advanced pragmatics (lecture), Pragmatic theories (lecture) courses, Discourse analysis (seminar) courses

Subject responsibility, Hungarian and Russian Studies MA:

  • Trends in the history of linguistics subject: Trends in the history of linguistics (lecture) course

Subject responsibility, Hungarian and Communication Studies BA:

  • Pragmatics subject: Pragmatics (lecture), Discourse analysis (lecture), Discourse analysis (seminar) courses

Subject responsibility, one-tier Hungarian teacher training:

  • Pragmatics and meaning subject: Pragmatics (lecture) course

Subject responsibility in specialisation:

  • Theoretical Linguistics MA: Pragmatics specialisation
  • Hungarian MA: General Linguistics specialisation
  • Hungarian BA: Language technology specialisation

Specialisation subject responsibility:

  • Theoretical Linguistics MA

Thesis supervision:

Since 1997: 36 thesis supervision of general linguistic, theoretical linguistic, Hungarian Studies and Communication Studies majors (based on data from the SZTE Klebelsberg Library SZTE Thesis work Repository).

Participation in doctoral schools:

  • Since 1995: Founding member of the JATE Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program, later core member of the Doctoral School of Linguistics, University of Szeged since its founding.
  • 2000−2002: Lecturer at ELTE Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program.
  • Since 2000: Supervisor at the English Language Pedagogy Program within the ELTE Doctoral School of Education.
  • Since 2007: Supervisor at the University of Debrecen’s Doctoral School of Linguistics.
  • Since 2007: University of Szeged, Doctoral School of Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics PhD, program leader
  • Since 2018: University of Szeged, Doctoral School of Linguistics, head

Taught courses in doctoral schools (as documented in SZTE ETR system since 2001):

  • Since 1995: Pragmatics lecture within JATE Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program
  • Since 2000: Pragmatics lecture within SZTE Doctoral School of Linguistics Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program: Philosophical and cognitive pragmatic theories. Theory of generalised conversational implicatures.
  • Since 2000: Pragmatics research seminar within SZTE Doctoral School of Linguistics Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program The goal of the seminar is to motivate and support individual research of PhD, BA and MA students interested in pragmatics, as well as a joint processing of current literature.
  • 2000–2002: Pragmatics lecture within ELTE Doctoral School of Linguistics Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program, in English
  • 2000–2002: Discourse analysis lecture and seminar within ELTE Doctoral School of Linguistics Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program, in English)
  • Since 2003: Pragmatics lecture within SZTE Doctoral School of Linguistics Hungarian Linguistics and Russian Linguistics PhD program.
  • Since 2008: Pragmatics orientation courses: Pragmatic theories lectures, Discourse analysis seminars within SZTE Doctoral School of Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program: The aim of the orientation courses for the PhD students who chose this orientation is to process the most recent pragmatic literature related to their individual research topics and to provide a wider theoretical background for their research.

Specialisation responsibility within a PhD program:

  • Pragmatics orientation within the Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program

Program responsibility within a doctoral school:

  • Theoretical Linguistics PhD Program

PhD supervision:

Supervision of 10 defended PhD dissertations:

  1. Lívia Ivaskó: A pragmatikai kompetencia szerepe a sikertelen diskurzusokban. [The role of pragmatic competence in unsuccessful discourses] 2005, SZTE Doctoral School of Linguistics.
  2. László Attila Nemesi: Az alakzatok kérdése a pragmatikában. [The issue of figurative language in pragmatics] 2007, SZTE Doctoral School of Linguistics.
  3. Anett Árvay: The analysis of manipulation in Hungarian and American written advertising discourse. 2009, ELTE Doctoral School of Education.
  4. Suszczynska Malgorzata: Remedial work in Hungarian  A case study. 2010, SZTE Doctoral School of Linguistics.
  5. Anita Schirm: A diskurzusjelölők funkciói: a hát, az -e és a vajon elemek története és jelenkori szinkrón státusa alapján. [The function of Hungarian discourse markers: The history and present synchronic status of the Hungarian elements hát, -e and vajon] 2011, SZTE Doctoral School of Linguistics.
  6. Alexa Bódog: Az intencionalitás kérdése a kommunikatív nyelvhasználat pragmatikájában. [The problem of intentionality in the pragmatics of communicative language use] 2012, DE Doctoral School of Linguistics.
  7. Katalin C. Nagy: A katalán „anar + főnévi igenév“ szerkezet grammatikalizációs jelentésváltozásának kezdeti szakaszáról történeti pragmatikai megközelítésben. [Initial stage of grammaticalization of Catalan „anar + infinitive” construction – A historical pragmatic analysis] 2013, SZTE Doctoral School of Linguistics.
  8. Boglárka Komlósi: Az ironikus hozzáállás: A verbális irónia szociokognitív modellje pragmatikai perspektívából. [Ironical stance: A socio-cognitive approach to verbal irony considering semantic-pragmatic interface] 2015, SZTE Doctoral School of Linguistics.
  9. Zsuzsanna Németh: Four repair operations in Hungarian conversations in the light of cross-linguistic examinations. 2016, Doctoral School of Linguistics, University of Szeged.
  10. Györgyi Sejtes Zs.: Dinamikus szövegtani modell a szövegértési képességfejlesztés és -mérés szolgálatában. Egy kognitív, funkcionális, pragmatikai keret alternatív alkalmazási lehetőségei az általános iskola 7-8. osztályában Dynamic model of text comprehension in competence development and measurement. An alternative application of a cognitive, functional and pragmatic framework in the 7-8th year of elementary school. 2020, Doctoral School of Linguistics, University of Szeged.

PhD students who have acquired final (pre-degree) certificate (abszolutórium):

  • Eszter Bártházi, Doctoral School of Linguistics, University of Szeged, final certificate acquired in 2011.
  • Mónika Fischer, Doctoral School of Linguistics, University of Szeged, final certificate acquired in 2006.
  • Marianna Varga, Doctoral School of Linguistics, University of Szeged, final certificate acquired in 2018.
  • Anna Udvardi, Doctoral School of Linguistics, University of Szeged, final certificate acquired in 2017.

Currently supervised students:

  • Katinka Halász, Doctoral School of Linguistics, University of Debrecen, expected date of final certificate: 2022.
  • Szabó Éva, University of Szeged, Doctoral School of Linguistics, expected date of final certificate: 2021.
  • Adha Ahmad, University of Szeged, Doctoral School of Linguistics, expected date of final certificate: 2021
  • Shuvalov Denis, University of Szeged, Doctoral School of Linguistics, expected date of final certificate: 2023.
  • Béres Tamara, University of Szeged, Doctoral School of Linguistics, expected date of final certificate: 2024.

Guest lecturer and teaching activities in a foreign language:

  • 2000-2002: Guest lectures at ELTE theoretical linguistics undergraduate and postgraduate courses in English: Advanced pragmatics (lecture) and Discourse analysis (lecture and seminar) courses.
  • 10-15. March 2002: Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, Dipartimento di Studi Linguistici e Culturali Comprati. Guest lectures within the framework of Erasmus program. Block lectures in English: Introduction to pragmatics, Implicit arguments in Hungarian.
  • 16-19 November 2004: University of Novi Sad Department of Hungarian Language and Literature within the sister university lecturer exchange program. Block lectures in Hungarian: Implicit arguments in Hungarian, Various forms of language use.
  • Since 2017: Theoretical Linguistics Pogram, Unversity of Szeged, teaching in English

Talent development:

Participation in the work of National Scientific Students’ Associations Conference:

  • 1990-2010: Department of General Linguistics, Scientific Students’ Associations Conference, teacher leader: organising readings, preparing students for the conference, organising faculty conferences.

Workshop founding activities:

  • Since 1987: Introducing the study of pragmatics and developing pragmatics courses built on each other within the previous one-tier model and the new BA and MA courses at SZTE Faculty of Arts, General Linguistics, Theoretical Linguistics, Communication Studies, Hungarian Studies, as well as Theoretical Linguistics, Hungarian Linguistics and Russian Linguistics PhD programs.
  • Since 2000: Supervising and coordinating the research work of young researchers, undergraduate and postgraduate students involved in pragmatic studies.
  • Since 2006: MTA-DE-PTE-SZTE, later MTA-DE and MTA-DE-SZTE Research Group for Theoretical Linguistics, Szeged workgroup team leader
  • 20092011: TÁMOP-4.2.2-08/1-2008-0015Theoretical foundations of the technology of human-machine communication (manager: László Hunyadi), DE, communication sub-project leader
  • Since 2012: Founding and managing the Hungarian Research Centre for Pragmatics
  • Since 2012: Founding and managing the Society of Hungarian Linguistics, Pragmatics Division

 

In Szeged, 21 February 2021

Enikő Németh T.