Joanna PODHORODECKA, PhD

Position:

• Assistant professor

Positions held in the Institute and the University:

• Member of the Quality Assurance Committee,
• Coordinator for Science and Art Festival.

Degrees:

• 2004; Ph.D. in Linguistics;
  Jagiellonian University in Kraków;
  Thesis: “Evaluative Metaphor: Extended Meanings of English motion Verbs”;
  Supervisor: Prof. Elżbieta Tabakowska.

• 1999; M.A. in English;
  Jagiellonian University in Kraków;
  Thesis: “Myth, Symbol and Metaphor in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings”;
  Supervisor: Prof. Elżbieta Tabakowska.

Main field of research:

• Linguistics

Department:

• Department of English Linguistics

Research Interests:

• Cognitive Linguistics,
• Corpus linguistics,
• Construction Grammar,
• Metaphor.

Teaching:

• Descriptive and Practical Grammar,
• BA and MA Seminars
  Language in the Mind: monographic lecture,
• Metaphor in Communication,
• Data-mining.

Membership in Academic Societies:

• Polish Cognitive Linguistics Society

Selected visiting lectures:

• N/A

Main Publications:

Articles:

• 2021 ‘Real-life pseudo-passives: the usage and discourse functions of adjunct-based passive constructions’. Poznan Studies in Contemporary Linguistics 57 (1), pp. 33-57.
• 2018 ‘The passive of Genitive and Instrumental verbs in Polish: preferences and constraints’ In: Rafał Augustyn and Agnieszka Mierzwińska-Hajnos (eds.) New Insights into Language and Cognition Interface, 184-205. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. (co-authored with Anna Ścibior-Gajewska, Ph.D.),
• 2016 ‘The role of constructional factors in passivization: Infinitival passives of perception verbs’. In: Fabiszak, Małgorzata, Karolina Krawczyk & Katarzyna Rokoszewska (eds.) Categorization in discourse and grammar, 253-266. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
• 2015 ‘The passive of the verb see: a usage-based study’. Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis, Studia Anglica. 191, pp. 56-68.
• 2013 ‘Reviving “Dead” Metaphors: Images of Evil in J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.’ In: Grażyna Branny and Gill Holland (eds.) Fictions and Metafictions of Evil. Essays in Literary Criticism, Comparative Literature and Interdisciplinary Studies, 215-237. Frankfurt: Peter Lang.
• 2007. Evaluative Metaphor: Extended Meanings of English motion Verbs.
  Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Akademii Pedagogicznej.