Department of Sociolinguistics and Discourse Studies

Members of the Department have conducted the following seminars in BA and MA programmes:

• Empirical research in sociolinguistics (BA seminar)
• Topics in lifespan sociolinguistics (MA seminar)
• MA seminar in sociolinguistics
• Langage and gender (MA seminar)
• Intergenerational communication (lecture)
• The sociolinguistics of computer-mediated communication (BA seminar)
• Gender in the media and advertisements (MA seminar)
• Language and communication in media and politics (MA seminar)
• Sociolinguistics and discourse analysis (MA seminar)
• Media discourses (PhD lecture)
• Langugage, communication and society (MA seminar)
• Field methods in linguistics (BA module, programme: English Linguistics: Theories, Interfaces, Technologies)

Members of the Department teach:

• TEFL at university level, including General English, Writing and Academic Discourse
• English-Polish contrastive grammar

• ADOPOLNOR Media – a part of ADOPOLNOR At the doorstep to adulthood: adolescent health and quality of life in a variety of socio-economic backgrounds, project funded by Norwegian Financial Instrument and EEA Financial Instrument, 2008-2011

The final publication illustrates the outcomes of the project: Kaczmarek, Maria. (ed.) 2011. Health and well-being in adolescence. Part two: Media. Poznań: Bogucki Wydawnictwo Naukowe.

• A British Council-funded project entitled: “Investigating Gender and Sexuality in the ESL classroom: Raising publishers', teachers' and students' awareness"

Project report: Łukasz Pakuła, Joanna Pawelczyk and Jane Sunderland. 2015. Gender and sexuality in English language education: Focus on Poland. London: British Council.