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CURRICULUM VITAE
Name: Dr. habil. Csilla Ilona Dér
Profession: linguist (teacher and researcher), psychologist
E-mail: cs*******@gm***.com
Place and date of birth: Budapest, 19. 03. 1976.
Fields of research
- pragmatics, discourse analysis: discourse markers, insubordination, backchannels
- historical linguistics: grammaticalization, syntactical changes in Hungarian, emergence of discourse markers
- sociolinguistics, genderlinguistics: gender stereotypes in language use, receptions of feminism
- cognitive linguistics: grammaticalization, adpositions/postpositions in Hungarian, constructions of mental verbs
- descriptive linguistics of Hungarian: appositions, parataxis
Participation in research groups
- Research Group of Pragmatics (KRE, co-founder and co-leader, 2013–)
- Research Group for Historical Linguistics (MTA NyTI, researcher in OTKA/NKFI projects, 2015–)
- Research Group of Phonetics (MTA NyTI, researcher in NKFI project, 2018–)
- DiAGram Functional Research Group (ELTE, member, researcher in NKFI projects, 2007–), Working Group in Metapragmatics (member, 2018–), CoFuLa (Cognitive Linguistic Perspectives on Finno-Ugric Languages, member, 2014–)
- Discourse Markers Research Group (KRE, member, 2018–)
- TERMIK Research Group of Terminology (KRE, member, 2012–)
Education
2017–2020 MA in psychology (clinical and health psychology), Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE, Budapest)
2018 – habilitation, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE, Budapest)
2011–2017 BA in psychology, Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church (KRE, Budapest)
2006 PhD in Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE, Budapest), Hungarian Linguistics Program, summa cum laude
title of thesis: Grammatikalizációs folyamatok a magyar nyelvben – elméleti kérdések és esettanulmányok [Grammaticalization processes in Hungarian – theoretical questions and case studies]
2000 MA in General and Applied Linguistics, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest): honours degree
2000 MA in Hungarian Language and Literature, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest): teacher’s degree
Jobs, positions
2008– Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church (KRE, Budapest), Faculty of Humanities, Department of Hungarian Linguistics: associate professor
2004–2010 Kodolányi János University College (KJF, Székesfehérvár), Department of Communication and Media Studies: 2004–2007: assistant professor; 2007–2010: associate professor
2001–2004 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Linguistics (HAS RIL, Budapest), Department of Historical Linguistics and Dialectology: junior researcher
2001–2004 Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE, Budapest), Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, Preparatory School: teacher of Hungarian Language and Literature
2001 Kiskapu Publishing House (Budapest): editor, publisher’s reader, corrector
2000–2001 Magna Lingua American Language School (Budapest): teacher of Hungarian as a Foreign Language
1999–2009 Educational Authority, Department of Assessment and Evaluation (Budapest): participation in national assessments (PISA, PIRLS) as writer of reading tests, supervisor of reading test scoorers
1999–2001 Széchényi National Library: librarian
Teaching
Eötvös Loránd University, Faculty of Humanities, Doctoral School of Hungarian Linguistics, Doctoral School of Applied Linguistics (from 2011–): seminars: Gender and politeness in diachrony, Discourse analysis (DMs), Gender Linguistics, Applied Gender Linguistics, Introduction to Gender Linguistics, Functional investigation of discourse markers (seminar)
Károli Gáspár University of the Reformed Church, Faculty of Humanities, Department of Hungarian Linguistics (2008–): lectures: Syntax (BA), Pragmatics (BA), Syntax (MA), Communication and pragmatics (MA); seminars: Syntax (BA, MA), Morphology (BA), Pragmatics (BA, MA), Philology in Linguistics (BA), Discourse Analysis (MA), Historical linguistics (BA, MA), Pragmatic interpretation of text (BA), Intercultural communication (BA), Genderlinguistics (BA), Grammaticalization (BA), Communication practices (BA), Sociolinguistics (BA), Analysis of Language Records (MA), Communication (MA), Communication and pragmatics (MA)
Kodolányi János University College, Department of Communication and Media Studies (2004–2010): lectures: Introduction to General Linguistics, Introduction to Semiotics; seminars: Media and language, Textanalysis, Stylistics, Academic writing, Rhetoric
Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), Faculty of Humanities and Faculty of Pedagogy and Psychology, Preparatory School (2001–2004): Hungarian Language and Literature
Magna Lingua American Language School (Budapest) (2000–2001): Hungarian as a Foreign Language
Memberships
1999– Association for Hungarian Linguistics (Section of General Linguistics: secretary, 2016–)
2008– Public Body of Hungarian Academy of Sciences
2010– EAFT (European Association for Terminology)
2016– IPrA (International Pragmatics Association)
2018– DiscourseNet
2024– Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE)
2021–: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Working Comittee on Applied Linguistics (member)
2023–2026: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Scientific Comittee on Linguistics (member)
2024–: Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Working Comittee on Theoretical Linguistics (member)
2024–: DiPVaC (Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change) Research Network, member of the Steering Comittee
2024–: Humanities and Social Sciences Communication (Springer Nature) – editor
Grants
2001–2004 Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Research Institute for Linguistics (HAS RIL, Budapest), Department of Historical Linguistics and Dialectology, Young Researcher Grant, topic: grammaticalization and language changes in Hungarian, syntax of Middle Hungarian
2010–2015 Hungarian Academy of Sciences Bolyai János Research Grant, topic: discourse markers in spontaneous speech
2021-2024 Hungarian Academy of Sciences Bolyai János Research Grant, topic: insubordination in Hungarian
2021/2022 ÚNKP Bolyai+ Grant
2022/2023 ÚNKP Bolyai+ Grant
2023/2024 ÚNKP Bolyai+ Grant
2024-2025: Szenczi Molnár Albert Award (KRE)
Selected publications
Dér, Csilla Ilona — Horváth, Viktória — Huszár, Anna — Valéria Krepsz 2024. The relationship between breathing and backchannel responses in spontaneous conversations: Pilot study. Studies in Greek Linguistics 43: 133-143.
Krepsz, Valéria — Horváth, Viktória — Hámori, Ágnes — Gyarmathy, Dorottya — Dér, Csilla Ilona 2022. Backchannel responses in Hungarian conversations: a corpus-based study on the effect of the partner’s age and gender. Linguistica Silesiana 43: 113–140.
Dér, Csilla 2013: Grammaticalization: A specific type of semantic, categorical, and prosodic change. Berliner Beiträge zur Hungarologie. Schriftenreihe des Fachgebiets für Ungarische Literatur und Kultur an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 18: 160-179.
Markó, Alexandra – Dér, Csilla Ilona 2012: Age-specific features of the use of discourse markers in Hungarian. Język. Komunikacja. Informacja 7: 61-78.
Csilla Ilona Dér 2010: On the status of discourse markers. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 57/1: 3-28.
Dér, Csilla Ilona 2010: Why and what to teach about grammaticalization? Berliner Beiträge zur Hungarologie. Schriftenreihe des Fachgebiets für Ungarische Literatur und Kultur an der Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin 15: 189-209.
Markó, Alexandra – Dér, Csilla Ilona 2009: How to distinguish? A corpus-based study of Hungarian discourse markers. In: Lengyel Zsolt – Navracsics Judit (szerk.) Tanulmányok a mentális lexikonról. Nyelvelsajátítás – beszédprodukció – beszédpercepció//Studies on the Mental Lexicon: Language Acquisition – Speech Production – Speech Perception. Budapest: Tinta. 393-408.
Dér, Csilla Ilona 2021. The use of discourse markers in architectural technical documentation. In: Fóris, Ágota – Bölcskei, Andrea (eds): Linguistic research in the fields of content management and documentation. Budapest/Paris: KRE — L’Harmattan. 375–386.
Dér, Csilla Ilona 2021. Scientific genres – specialized genres. In: In: Fóris, Ágota – Bölcskei, Andrea (eds): Linguistic research in the fields of content management and documentation. Budapest/Paris: KRE — L’Harmattan. 255–267.
Dér, Csilla Ilona 2020: Diskurzusjelölők és társulásaik a magyar nyelvben [Discourse markers and their combinations in Hungarian language]. Budapest: KRE — L’Harmattan. 232 p.
Dér, Csilla Ilona 2019. Inszubordinált (függetlenedett) mellékmondatok a magyar beszélt és írott beszélt nyelvben. [Insubordinate clauses in spoken and written Hungarian] Beszédkutatás 27: 206–220.
https://ojs3.mtak.hu/index.php/beszkut/article/view/1612/1091
Csontos, Nóra – Dér, Csilla Ilona 2018. Pragmatika a magyar mint idegen nyelv oktatásában. [Pragmatics in the teaching of Hungarian] Budapest: Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem – L’Harmattan Kiadó.
http://www.kre.hu/ebook/images/CsontosNora_DerCsilla_web.pdf
Dér, Csilla Ilona 2017. A hát multifunkcionalitása a beszédműfajok és a diskurzusjelölő-társulások függvényében. [The multifunctionality of hát depending on the genre and on discourse marker combinations] Beszédkutatás 25: 169–184.
https://ojs3.mtak.hu/index.php/beszkut/article/view/387/196
Dér, Csilla Ilona 2008: Grammatikalizáció. [Grammaticalization.] Nyelvtudományi Értekezések 159. Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó. 145 p.
Dér, Csilla Ilona 2002: Bemerkungen zur Grammatikalisierung als Erscheinung des Sprachwandels. Acta Linguistica Hungarica 49/2: 149–178.
Participation on international conferences, workshops
DNDiPVaC 2024 — Changing Discourses – Aspects of Linguistic, Social and Discourse Variation, Budapest, Károli Gáspár Református Egyetem, 12. 06. 2024, Dér, Csilla Ilona: „Variations of independent (insubordinate) clauses with metalinguistic function in Hungarian”
10th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication (INPRA 2024). Università di Pisa, 31. 05. 2024, Dér, Csilla Ilona & Sass, Bálint: „Corpus-based analysis of independent conditinal clauses and their semantic-pragmatic roles”
18th International Pragmatics Conference (IPC), Brüsszel, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), 11. 07. 2023. . Dér, Csilla Ilona: „The semantics and pragmatics of insubordinate conditional clauses in Hungarian” (Panel: „Clause combining at the discourse-grammar interface: Answers from coordination, subordination and insubordination”) (talk)
International Conference on Conversation Analysis (ICCA 2023), Brisbane (Meanjin), University of Queensland, 01. 07. 2023. Dér, Csilla Ilona, Huszár, Anna, Horváth Viktória, Krepsz, Valéria: „Phonetic and pragmatic analysis of the discourse marker szerintem ‘I think, to my mind’ in spontaneous conversations” (talk)
Discourse markers — Theories and methods. Párizs, Université Paris Cité, 2023. május 25. Dér, Csilla Ilona, Huszár, Anna, Krepsz, Valéria, Horváth, Viktória: „Phonetopragmatic analysis of the Hungarian discourse marker hát ‘well, so’ and its combinations” (talk)
43rd Annual Meeting of the Department of Linguistics (AMGL43). Thessaloniki, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 06. 05. 2023, Valeria Krepsz, Anna Huszár, Csilla Ilona Dér & Viktória Horváth: „The relationship between breathing and backchannel responses in spontaneous conversations — pilot study” (talk)
13th International Congress for Finno-Ugric Studies (CIFU XIII.), University of Vienna, Vienna, 16. 08. 2022. „Sz’al, nemtom ’So, I dunno’ – The formal and functional variation of the discourse marker NEM TUDOM in Hungarian” (talk)
International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) 25. University of Oxford, Oxford, 03. 08. 2022. „Discourse variation analysis of the Hungarian discourse markers no~na ’now, so, well’ and their combinations with other markers and insubordinate clauses” (talk)
International Conference on Historical Linguistics (ICHL) 25. University of Oxford, Oxford, 01. 08. 2022. „Independence with or without ellipsis? About the evolution of hogy ‘that’ insubordinate clauses in Hungarian” (poster)
Discourse-Pragmatic Variation and Change 5. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, 15. 12. 2021. „Corpus analysis of sequences of discourse markers and insubordinate clauses with hogy ‘that’ in Hungarian” (online talk)
17th International Pragmatics Conference, Winterthur (Switzerland), Zurich University of Applied Sciences, 28. 06. 2021. „Types and pragmatic functions of hogy ‘that’ insubordinations in Hungarian” (online talk)
ECCA20: European Conference on Conversation Analysis. Radboud University, Nijmegen (Hollandia), 29. 06.–02. 07. 2020. Valéria Krepsz, Ágnes Hámori, Dorottya Gyarmathy, Csilla Ilona Dér, and Viktória Horváth: Phonetic and pragmatic aspects of dynamic management of turn-takings in 3-participant conversations” (virtual conference)
SPPL2020: 2nd Workshop on Speech Perception and Production across the Lifespan. UCL, London, 30–31. 03. 2020. Valéria Krepsz, Dorottya Gyarmathy, Csilla Ilona Dér, Ágnes Hámori and Viktória Horváth: „The effect of the partner’s age on backchanelling behaviour” (poster, virtual conference)
16th International Pragmatics Conference. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 13. 06. 2019. Dér Csilla Ilona: „Stigmatized discourse marker combinations in Hungarian” (talk)
16th International Pragmatics Conference. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, 13. 06. 2019. Hámori Ágnes – Gyarmathy Dorottya – Dér Csilla Ilona – Krepsz Valéria – Horváth Viktória: „Backchannels in the forefront: new aspects of an old-new phenomenon” (poster)
15th International Pragmatics Conference, Belfast (Northern Ireland), Ulster University, 17 .07. 2017. „Discourse markers out of the blue? The case of Hungarian szerintem ‘I think; to my mind’ (talk)
‘Construal and grounding’ Conference in Cognitive Linguistics. Budapest, ELTE BTK, 16. 10. 2014. „About the syntax and semantics of the adposition ÁT ‘across’ (+ superessivus) in Hungarian” (talk)
NRG5 (New Reflections on Grammaticalization 5.) Edinburgh (Scotland), University of Edinburgh, 17 July 2012. Csilla Ilona Dér – Alexandra Markó: „Pragmaticalization of demonstratives into discourse markers in Hungarian: is deaccentuation involved?”(talk)
6th Łódź Symposium: New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics. Łódź (Poland), University of Łódź, 26 May 2012. „The role of discourse markers in turn-taking” (talk)
So, what is it then, this Grammaticalization? – Approaches to Refining the Notion Workshop at Freie Universität Berlin, Berlin, (Germany) 24 February 2012. „Grammaticalizaton: a specific type of semantic and category change” (talk)
Beyond dichotomies – Cognitive linguistics conference. Budapest, ELTE, 25. 10. 2010. „How prototypical are suffix-attracting postpositions in Hungarian?” (talk)
Beyond dichotomies – Cognitive linguistics conference. Budapest, ELTE, 26. 10. 2010. Markó, Alexandra – Dér, Csilla Ilona: „Acquisition of some verbal discourse markers in Hungarian” (talk)
X. Psycholinguistic Summer University, Balatonalmádi, 3–8. 06. 2007. Markó, Alexandra – Dér, Csilla Ilona: „The suprasegmental marking of Hungarian discourse markers” (talk)
Languages spoken
Hungarian (native), English (good), German (good)
Special skills
SPSS
