Joanna PASZENDA, MA

Position:

•  Junior researcher

Positions held in the Institute and the University:

• N/A

Degrees:

• 1994; Magister filologii angielskiej;
  Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach, Wydział Filologiczny, Filologia Angielska;
  Thesis: “Animal Phraseology. An English-Polish-German Thematic Dictionary”;
  Supervisor: prof. dr hab. Piotr Kakietek, Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach;
  Reviewer: prof. dr hab. Kazimierz Polański, Uniwersytet Śląski w Katowicach.

Main field of research:

• Linguistics

Department:

• Department of English Linguistics

Research Interests:

• Cognitive linguistics,
• A cognitive grammar approach to argument structure constructions in English and Polish,
• Cognitive motivation behind grammatical constructions,
• Antroponimiczne neologizmy słowotwórcze w dyskursie politycznym.

Teaching:

• Media discourse,
• Analysis of media discourses,
• Neologisms in media discourse,
• Descriptive grammar,
• English grammar,
• Advanced English grammar,
• English phonetics.

Membership in Academic Societies:

• Polskie Towarzystwo Językoznawstwa Kognitywnego,
• Slavic Linguistics Society.

Selected visiting lectures:

• N/A

Main Publications:

Articles:

• 2020 “Name-based derivatives suffixed with -izm/-yzm in the current political discourse in Poland”. Prace Językoznawcze 22(4) 2020: 21–40. Współautor: Iwona Góralczyk. – 20 str.
• 2020 “An introduction to a cognitive linguistic analysis of novel name-based derivatives in the current political discourse in Poland”. Prace Językoznawcze 22(3) 2020: 91–113. Współautor: Iwona Góralczyk. – 23 str.
• 2018 “Metonymic motivations behind paragonic uses of proper names: A cognitive linguistics approach”. Linguistica Silesiana 39: 211–235. Współautor: Iwona Góralczyk. – 26 str.
• 2017 “Motivation behind the extended senses of the Polish ditransitive construction”. In: Ruiz de Mendoza Ibáñez, Francisco José, Alba Luzondo Oyón & Paula Pérez Sobrino (eds.), Constructing Families of Constructions. Analytical Perspectives and Theoretical Challenges. [Human Cognitive Processing; 58]. 241–275. Amsterdam/ Philadelphia: John Benjamins. – 36 str.
• 2014  “English and Polish ditransitive constructions in contrast: A construction grammar approach”. In: Kuźniak, M.; Libura, A. & M. Szawerna (eds.), From Conceptual Metaphor Theory to Cognitive Ethnolinguistics: Patterns of Imagery in Language [Studies in Language, Culture and Society 3]. 141–162. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang. – 22 str.