Anna Babarczy

 

1 T Egry József utca, 1111 Budapest, Hungary.

Phone: +36 14631073, Fax: +36 14631072

E-mail: babarczy at/kukac cogsci.bme.hu

Teaching


Fogadóóra: Hétfő 9-10, T 510

Doktori iskola


Pragmatics

Research

The psycholinguistics of abstraction

We explore the use of abstract, metaphorical expressions in everyday communication. Some questions we ask are

•    How can we give a scientific definition of the abstract-concrete distinction in natural language? 

•    How do language users interpret this distinction?

•    What structure can we identify behind everyday metaphorical language use?

•    In what way does our perception of physical reality interact with our use of language to describe abstract concepts?

•    How do young children learn abstract concepts and associated language?

Also working on the project: Eszter Simon, István Fekete

Automatic identification of literal versus non-literal meaning

The project uses the methods of Corpus Linguistics and Natural Language Processing to explore ways of automatically identifying expressions with non-literal meaning in written text corpora.

Pragmatics and child language

The development of implicatures