Prof. Alicja WITALISZ, PhD (habilitatus)

Position:

• Professor of the Pedagogical University

Positions held in the Institute and the University:

• Institute of English Studies, Deputy Head,
• English Linguistics Department, Head,
• Quality Assurance Committee, Head.

Degrees:

• 2016; D.Litt. in Linguistics;
  Pedagogical University in Kraków;
  Thesis: “English Loan Translations in Polish: Word-formation Patterns, Lexicalization, Idiomaticity and Institutionalization”.

• 2006; Ph.D. in Linguistics;
  Jagiellonian University in Kraków;
  Thesis: “English semantic loans in Polish”;
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Renata Przybylska, Jagiellonian University in Kraków

• 1998; M.A. in English;
  Jagiellonian University in Kraków;
  Thesis: “Privative and Reversative Derivations in English and Polish”;
  Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ewa Willim, Jagiellonian University in Kraków.

Main field of research:

• Linguistics.

Department:

• Department of English Linguistics

Research Interests:

• contact linguistics,
• neology,
• lexicology & lexicography,
• corpus linguistics,
• linguistic globalization.

Teaching:

• Introduction to Linguistics,
• Language Contact,
• Semantics,
• Descriptive Grammar,
• Academic writing,
• MA & BA Seminar.

Membership in Academic Societies:

• Linguistic Society of America (LSA),
• Societas Linguistica Europaea (SLE),
• Polskie Towarzystwo Językoznawcze (PTJ),
• European Association for the Study of English (ESSE),
• Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE),
• Global Anglicisms Database Network (GLAD),
• Towarzystwo Miłośników Języka Polskiego (TMJP),
• Krakowskie Towarzystwo Popularyzowania Wiedzy o Komunikacji Językowej Tertium.

Membership of Boards of Scholarly Journals:

• Polish Linguistic Society Journal – Language Editor,
• Tertium Linguistic Journal – member of Advisory Board and Editor of Reviews Section.

Selected visiting lectures:

• 2024 Fu Jen Catholic University, Tajpej, Tajwan,
• 2024 Beijing Union University, Pekin, Chiny,
• 2024 Universidad de Cádiz, Hiszpania,
• 2024 University of Patras, Grecja,
• 2023 British Library, Londyn, Wielka Brytania,
• 2023 Salem State University, USA,
• 2023 Westfield State University, USA,
• 2023 Université de Limoges, Francja,
• 2023 Universidad de Cádiz, Hiszpania,
• 2022 East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA,
• 2022 Universidad de Cádiz, Hiszpania,
• 2022 Universidad de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Hiszpania,
• 2021 La Sapienza, Rzym, Włochy,
• 2021 Universidad de Cádiz, Hiszpania,
• 2019 University of California, Santa Barbara, USA,
• 2019 Universidad de Cádiz, Spain,
• 2016 Troy University, Troy, Alabama, USA,
• 2014 East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, USA,
• 2014 Universidad de Sevilla, Spain,
• 2014 Westfield State University, Westfield, Massachusetts, USA,
• 2013 University of Crete, Greece,
• 2013 Otto-Friedrich Universität Bamberg, Germany,
• 2013 Selçuk Üniversitesi, Konya, Turkey,
• 2012 Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy,
• 2011 Universidad de Huelva, Spain,
• 2011 Universidad de La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain,
• 2009 Universidad de Jaen, Spain,
• 2007 University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA,
• 2006 Università di Bologna, Italy.

Main Publications:

Monographs:

• 2016 Przewodnik po anglicyzmach w języku polskim. Kraków: TMJP PAN,
• 2015 English Loan Translations in Polish: Word-formation Patterns, Lexicalization, Idiomaticity and Institutionalization. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang,
• 2007 Anglosemantyzmy w języku polskim – ze słownikiem. Kraków: Tertium.

Articles:

• 2024   Semantic shifts of coming out and come out of the closet. A crosslinguistic usage-based perspective. Gender and Language 18(2): 175-197.
• 2023  z A. Cierpich-Kozieł i E. Mańczak-Wohlfeld: English-sourced direct and indirect borrowings in a new lexicon of Polish anglicisms. Studies in Polish Linguistics 18(1): 1–23.
• 2023  z M. Bańko: English-sourced ordinal superlatives in contemporary Polish: An argument for the usefulness of syntactic loans, Prace Językoznawcze XXV(3): 23–39.
• 2023   Weaponized words: LGBTQ+ Anglicisms at the service of Polish sociopolitical discourse, in:m  S. M. Shearman, L. G. Kean, M. Tucker-McLaughlin and W. Witalisz (eds.) Freedom of Expression Across Borders: Communication, Culture, and Language. Greenville, NC: ECU Academic Library Services, Distributed by the University of North Carolina Press, 45–63.
• 2023   z E. Mańczak-Wohlfeld i A. Cierpich-Kozieł: Nowy słownik zapożyczeń angielskich w polszczyźnie – założenia ogólne i mikrostruktura haseł, Język Polski CIII; 5–19.
• 2023  (R)evolution in language contact exploration: research potential in cognitively-oriented, usage-based methodologies, in: Time and temporality across disciplines and methodologies, A. Piskorz (ed.), Kraków: Wydawnictwo UP, 105–124.
• 2022  Mieć nazwę, to istnieć: funkcje anglicyzmów w dyskursie związanym ze społecznością LGBTQ+, Socjolingwistyka 36(1): 247–262.
• 2022  Najnowsze metodologie badawcze w lingwistyce kontaktu i automatyczna ekscerpcja anglicyzmów, Język Polski CII(2), 5–22.
• 2022 z M. Bańko i K. Hansen: Linguistic purism and loanword adaptation techniques: The case of Polish, Language Awareness 31(1), 95–116. (online w 2021),
• 2022 z M. Bańko i K. Hansen: Linguistic purism and loanword adaptation techniques: The case of Polish, Language Awareness 31(1), 95–116. (online w 2021),
• 2021 Recyclable Loans: Idiosyncrasy, Rule-Governedness and Gradience in Contact-Induced Lexical Creativity, w: Ramón Martí Solano, Pablo Ruano San Segundo (eds.), Anglicisms and Corpus Linguistics. Corpus-Aided Research into the Influence of English on European Languages, Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 97-117.
• 2021 Polish LGBTQ+-related anglicisms in a language contact perspective, Studia Anglica Posnaniensia 56: 631-653.
• 2021 Ewolucja badań nad wynikami kontaktu językowego w czasie i przestrzeni: wybrane zagadnienia, w: Język(i) w czasie i przestrzeni. Łódzkie Studia z Językoznawstwa Angielskiego i Ogólnego 12. P. Stalmaszczyk (red.), Łódź, 159–186.
• 2020 Problems in studying loan translations, in: Mostly Medieval: In Memory of Jacek Fisiak, Beyond Language 5, H. Sauer, P.P. Chruszczewski (eds.). San Diego, CA: Æ Academic Publishing, 476–494.
• 2020 Abundance, conflict and insufficiency in loan terminology, Biuletyn Polskiego Towarzystwa Językoznawczego LXXVI, 165–179.
• 2020 Formal variance in Polish adjectival anglicisms, in: Languages in contact and contrast. A Festschrift for Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld on the occasion of her 70th birthday, M. Szczyrbak, A. Tereszkiewicz (eds.), Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press, 551–569.