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dr Grzegorz Kowalski

Research interests

  • multimodal discourse
  • Critical Discourse Analysis
  • academic and scientific discourse
  • discourse analysis
  • sociolinguistics
  • pragmatics

Academic career

  • since 2011 – Assistant Professor at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw
  • 2016 – 2017 – visiting scholar / free-lance researcher, Centrul de Lingvistică Computaţională, Facultatea de Matematică și Informatică, Universitatea din București, Romania

Teaching experience

  • communicative competence – practical English grammar (full-time studies)
  • Discourse Analysis – lecture & practical classes (full-time studies)
  • scientific discourse (full-time studies)
  • Introduction to linguistics (full-time studies)
  • BA proseminar (full-time studies)
  • BA seminar (full-time studies)
  • MA seminar (full-time studies)
  • social semiotics – lecture (full-time studies)
  • Analyzing public discourse: Current topics in world news – practical classes (full-time studies)
  • Group Research Project – linguistic approach (full-time studies)
  • multimodal discourse analysis (full-time studies)

Organising experience

  • 2020 – IADA 2020: Discourse, dialogue and dialogicity– international linguistic conference – Warsaw
  • since 2006 – GlobE – international linguistic conference – Warsaw
  • since 2004 – Quo vadis lingua? – research session organized by the Students’ Club of Sociolinguistics – Warsaw
  • 2004 – “Young Researchers’ Session”, GlobE 2004: Bridges and Walls in Metalinguistic Discourse – Warsaw

Professional organisations – membership

  • International Pragmatics Association, Antwerp (2004-2006)
  • Ośrodek Przetwarzania Informacji – Instytut Badawczy (expert/reviewer) (since 2013)

Papers read at international conferences

  • “Markers of reciprocity in British and Polish obituary genres” – Globe 2004: Bridges and Walls in Metalinguistic Discourse – Warsaw – 2004
  • “Renegotiation of academic face: Evolution of student – teacher relations in Polish academic settings” – 9th International Pragmatics Conference – Riva del Garda – 2005
  • “Pragmatic implications of language selection in Polish university communication” – 11th International Conference on Dialogue Analysis – Münster – 2007
  • “Discourse of doubt and discourse of hope: constructing the relevance of a scientific discovery in the context of agora” – GlobE 2008 – Warsaw – 2008
  • “Negocjacja hierarchii ról społecznych w korespondencji elektronicznej studentów z nauczycielami akademickimi” – Tekst (w) sieci – Warsaw – 2008
  • “Self-promotion and other-depreciation in scientific discourse: Cross-cultural corpus research” – Impoliteness And Rudeness II (LIAR II) – Lancaster (UK) – 2009
  • “Pragmatyczne i retoryczne funkcje zaimkow 1. osoby w polskim i angielskim dyskursie naukowym” – Retoryka w komunikacji specjalistycznej – Warszawa – 2010
  • “Discursive construction of the persona of the author, the reader and the scientific community in NS and NNS scientific articles” – PRISEAL 2: Interculturality, cross-culturality and acculturality in academic research – Sosnowiec – 2011
  • “Dyskurs społecznego sceptycyzmu wobec wiedzy naukowej” – GlobE 2013: Tekst naukowy wczoraj i dziś: wiedza – język (dyskurs) – przekład naukowy – Warsaw – 2013
  • “Abstract rhetors in Polish and English scientific discourse: a diachronic study” – International Conference on Communication Styles – Krosno – 2013
  • “Polarization of European research in EU legislative discourse” – GlobE 2015: Past, present and future of discourse studies – Warsaw – 2015
  • “EFL scientific discourse as ‘cosmopolitan practice’? Implications of corpus research” – DiscourseNet International Congress #1. Discourse: Language, Society, Critique – Bremen – 2015
  • “Argumentation patterns in problem/solution marketing profiles of local- and global-target start-ups” – 4th ESTIDIA Conference “Dialogues without Borders: Strategies of Interpersonal and Inter-group Communication” – Sofia – 2017
  • “Romanian protests of February 2017 in Polish public discourse: From drawing parallels to constructing hybrid universes” – ACUM: Challenges of Education and Research in the Social Sciences – Braşov – 2017
  • “Markers of the reader’s guidance in L1 and L2 scientific discourse” – Variație în română și în limbile romanice: Al 17-lea Colocviu Internațional al Departamentului de Lingvistică – Bucharest – 2017
  • “A kiedy u nas? / Pe când şi la noi?: Winter 2016/2017 protests in Poland and Romania in reciprocal perspective: A Critical Discourse Analysis” – Mapping Cultural Identities: Translations and Intersections – Bucharest – 2018
  • “Polish linguistic discourse in transition. The case of directives” – Slaviștii în Centenarul Marii Uniri. Slavistica românească și dialogul culturilor 2018 – Bucharest – 2018
  • “Applicability of text organization patterns in an analysis of multimodal Web genres” –Современные направления в лингвистике и преподавании языков: проблема метода / Modern Developments in Linguistics and Language Teaching: the Problem of Method – Penza – 2019
  • “Kategoryzacja w dyskursie polskich i rumuńskich mediów oraz ich odbiorców” – Teksty kultury: Oblicza komunikacji XXI wieku 3 – Lublin – 2019
  • “Proximization in news text production and reception” – IADA 2020: Discourse, dialogicity and dialogue– Warsaw – 2020
  • “Emblematyka wyścigu kosmicznego w perspektywie semiotyki społecznej i teorii metafory wizualnej” – Język, polityka, ideologia – międzynarodowa interdyscyplinarna konferencja naukowa– Gdańsk – 2022

Scholarships and grants

  • 2009-2011 – Ministry of Science and Higher Education Grant no N N104 012037 for the PhD-related research project “Pragma-rhetorical strategies of claim-making and claim-challenging in Polish and English scientific discourse”

Other

  • 2011-2015 – academic tutor, 1st year of 2nd degree full-time studies
  • since 2009 – participant in Discourse Analysis Workshops
  • 2008 – 2011 – member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Applied Linguistics
  • since 2007 – faculty consultant for University Library e-resources
  • since 2006 – GlobE conference secretary
  • since 2004 – assistant of the research supervisor of the Students’ Club of Sociolinguistics, Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw
  • 2015 – 2016 – coordinator: MA studies “Język i społeczeństwo” (“Language and society”) at the Institute of Applied Linguistics
  • since 2019 – co-ordinator of students’ professional placement programme in translation/interpreting (English language), Institute of Applied Linguistics
  • since 2020 r. – deputy director of MA studies “Język i społeczeństwo” (“Language and society”)

Publications list