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:

• 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:

• 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:

• 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.