Emeritus Professor Zoltán Kövecses Presented Emotions in Cognitive Linguistics at SoH Distinguished Lecture
On 7 October 2025, the School of Humanities hosted Professor Zoltán Kövecses where he presented a lecture on 'Embodied cognition in context' as part of a public lecture in the Distinguished Lectures in the Humanities series.
Professor Kövecses discussed anger and associated emotions in the context of cognitive linguistics, and invited attendees in the lecture to share their thoughts on embodied metaphors in different languages.
The lecture was organised by Professor Dennis Tay, LMS, and supported by the Toh Puan Mahani Idris Daim Fund.
To view the recording of the lecture, please visit the SoH Youtube Channel: Click Here.
Zoltán Kövecses is professor emeritus in the School of English and America Studies, Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary. His main research interests include the theory of metaphor and metonymy, context and metaphor, metaphor universals, and the conceptualization of emotions. His major publications are: Metaphor and Emotion (2000, Cambridge UP), Metaphor. A Practical Introduction (2010, Oxford UP), Metaphor in Culture. Universality and Variation (2005, Cambridge UP), Language, Mind, and Culture (2006, Oxford UP), Where Metaphors Come From (2015, Oxford UP), and Extended Conceptual Metaphor Theory (2020, Cambridge UP). Most recently, he co-edited and co-authored (with R. Benzes and V. Szelid) a two-volume handbook on anger metaphors around the world, entitled Metaphors of Anger Around the World (2025, De Gruyter).
