SELECTED MEDIA APPEARANCES BY ANNA SZILÁGYI

“The Language of Authoritarianism”. Kristóf Szombati and Erdem Evren, This Authoritarian Life, 14 March 2025

“Un-labeling and Unlocking our Shared Humanity”. Over Zero, 2 July 2024

“How Words can Counter Othering and Promote Belonging”. Evan Yoshimoto, Democracy and Belonging Institute, 15 February 2023

“Human Catastrophes are Always Assisted by Pronouns”. Masha Kamenetskaya, Panel Magazine, 2022/9.

“A Confiança que Trump Conquistou com a sua Informalidade Radical” [The Societal Impact of Trump’s Radical Informality]. Maria João Guimarães, Público, 18 October 2020

“Words can be Very Dangerous: They Can Even Break Bones” . Nune Hakhverdyan, Media.am, 16 January 2018

“Denken Sie Nicht an Einen Elefanten!” [Don’t Think of an Elephant!]. Goethe.de, 2019/February.

“Migrant as Slur, Stigma and Insult in Hungarian media”. Eline Jeanne, Media-diversity.org, 22 June 2018

“Dangerous Metaphors: How Dehumanizing Rhetoric Works”. Dangerousspeech.org, 9 March 2018

“Inside the Fairy Tale Mind of Trump” . Jon Allsop, Columbia Journalism Review, 27 September 2017

“Framespotting with Talk Decoded”. Global Voices, 22 September 2017

“The Anatomy of a Victim-Abuser Reversal. Reading “My family’s slave”. 14 July 2017 Talk Decoded

“How to Talk Like a Populist?”. Milena Mikael-Debass, Vice News, 9 May 2017

“Hľadá sa Politická Korektnosť. Živá alebo Mŕtva.” [Looking for Political Correctness. Dead or Alive]. SME, 3 February 2017

“A Linguist Explains how Trump is Using the Language of Victimhood to Position himself as America’s Savior”. Quartz, 2 February 2017

“What does Political Correctness Mean Anymore? A Linguist Explains how the Far-Right Hijacked Political Correctness”. Quartz, 18 January 2017

“Digong and the Donald: The Indiscreet Charm of Informality in Politics.” Co-authored with Mark R. Thompson, Rappler, 30 November 2016

“Mighty Words: the Power of Propaganda—Hungary’s Great Anti-Migrant Campaign”. Talk Decoded, 6 October 2016