Anna Laszlo, PhD Candidate

Hello there,

My name is Anna Laszlo. I'm a native Hungarian doing my PhD in the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

The desire to pursue PhD studies was preceded by 5 years of doing English and American Studies in the Eotvos Lorand University in Budapest, Hungary with a special focus on humor. I obtained my Masters degree in 2011. The initial interest in doing further research in literary humor quickly turned into an interest in linguistic humor, while the initial intention of applying cognitive linguistics changed into an intention of doing corpus linguistics in the meantime, and due to the narrowing down of the research topic, the broad area of humor has been substituted with irony and sarcasm. Thus, my current research focus is on the textual features of irony and sarcasm in a soap opera corpus. My other research interests include discourse analysis, sentiment analysis, literary humor, and cognitive linguistics.

Conferences attended:

Laszlo, A. (2015, February). What Grammar Can Tell Us about Sarcasm: A Corpus-Based Analysis of American Soap Operas. Paper presented at the 21st Annual AHSN Conference, Adelaide, Australia.

Laszlo, A. (2014, November). A Corpus-based Analysis of Sarcasm. Paper presented at the 2014 International Humour Symposium, Komarno, Slovakia.

Laszlo, A. (2014, July). A corpus-based analysis of sarcasm-related emotions. Paper presented at the 26th International Society of Humor Studies Conference, Utrecht, the Netherlands.

Laszlo, A. (2014, April). Corpus-based study of irony and sarcasm. Paper presented at the Faculty of Humanities Postgraduate Research Symposium, Hong Kong, China.

Laszlo, A. (2014, March). Sarcasm dynamics in a TV talk show corpus. Paper presented at the Second Asia Pacific Corpus Linguistic Conference, Hong Kong, China.

Laszlo, A. (2013, September). Can Irony be Explained via Conceptual Metonymy: Cognitive Linguistic Analysis. Paper presented at the Free Linguistic Colloquium, Hong Kong, China.

Laszlo, A. (2013, March). Humorous fiction under scrutiny. Paper presented at LAFAL 3 Linguistic Approaches to Funniness, Amusement and Laughter: Entertainment Discourse beyond Humour Studies, Lodz, Poland.

Publications:

Laszlo, A. (2014). Humour in Tibor Fischer's Works. In M. Csoti & M. Mikecz (Eds.), Good to Be 56. Writing in Honour of Tibor Fischer's Birthdays (pp. 164-175). Budapest: L'Harmattan.

(Last Modified: Feb. 20, 2015)