SELECTED PUBLICATIONS BY ANNA SZILÁGYI

From Andrew Tate to Brexit: How Labels Are Used to Blame Groups

“‘Shrieking Sirens’: The Proliferation of Superlabels. In Contemporary Popular Culture and Politics”. The Journal of European Popular Culture, 2026 (forthcoming). 

Whitewashing at Work: Manipulating the Media and the Public with Fake Narratives

“How Was I Responsible?” Narratives of Distraction and Denial in the Post-War Rhetoric of Leni Riefenstahl”. In Michael Miller - Luca Váradi (eds.), Perceptions and Prejudice. New York, Budapest: CEU Press, 2026 (forthcoming). 

Turning Public Figures Into Scapegoats: The Machinery of Framing

„Enemy in the Making: The Language of Anti-Sorosism in the U.S. and Hungary”. Co-authored with Kristóf Szombati. The Public Eye Magazine, 2020. július 9. →

Scapegoating Groups: Key Tools of “Us vs. Them” Language

“Anti-Refugee and Anti-Migrant Speech in Hungary”. Co-authored with Marcell Sükösd-Kósa. Global Research Initiative Case Study, Dangerous Speech Project, 2018. január 23. →

Scapegoating Groups: The Arsenal Behind “Us vs. Them” Language

“Discourse and Discrimination in Charlottesville: The Rhetoric of White Supremacists during the Violent Unrest in August 2017”. Lodz Papers in Pragmatics, 13(2): 285–302, 2017. →

One Country, Two Stories: How Language Creates Completely Different Images of a Global Player

“‘Threatening Other’ or ‘Role-model Brother’? China in the Eyes of the British and the Hungarian Far-Right”. In Monika Kopytowska (ed.) Contemporary Discourses of Hate and Radicalism across Space and Genres. Amsterdam, Philadelphia: John Benjamins, 193-214, 2017./Journal of Language Aggression and Conflict, 3(1):151-172, 2015. →

Contexts Give Meaning to Words: How the Same Language Can Nurture or Undermine Democracy

“Playing it Again in Post-Communism: the Revolutionary Rhetoric of Viktor Orbán in Hungary” . Co-authored with András Bozóki. Special Issue: Rhetorics of “1989” and After: Rhetorical Archaeologies of Political Transition, Advances in the History of Rhetoric, 18(Supplement 1):153-166, 2015. →

Scapegoating Time and Again: Words Weaponized Against the Same Group

“Variations on a Theme: the Jewish ‘Other’ in Old and New Antisemitic Media Discourses in Hungary in the 1940s and 2011.” Co-authored with András Kovács. In Ruth Wodak and John E. Richardson (eds.), Analysing Fascist Discourse, European Fascism in Talk and Text. New York: Routledge, 203-227, 2013. →