Websites / Profiles

• AMU Research Portal (OMEGA PSiR)
• ORCID

Degrees

• M.A. in English, Poznań, 1984
• Ph.D. in English, Poznań, 1990
• D.Litt. in English linguistics, Poznań, 2002

Research interests

• Sociolinguistics
• Socio-historical linguistics
• Language and gender studies
• Life span sociolinguistics
• Intergenerational communication
• Pragmatics
• Lexicography

Teaching experience

• Sociolinguistics
• Socio-historical linguistics
• Language and gender
• Language and age
• Intergenerational communication
• English-Polish contrastive grammar
• English syntax
• TEFL at university level
• Practical linguistic fieldwork

Professional organizations

• Societas Linguistica Europaea
• European Society for the Study of English (ESSE)
• Polish Association for the Study of English (PASE)
• International Gender and Language Association (IGALA)
• International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)

Editorial

• Assistant to the editor, Folia Linguistica Historica, 1992-2005
• (assist. ed.). Middle English miscellany. From vocabulary to linguistic variation. Edited by Jacek Fisiak. Poznań: Motivex. 1996. Pp. 283.
• Member of editorial board, Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, 2005-
• Member of editorial board, Language in Social Interaction. Synchronic and Diachronic Perspectives (book series, published by University of Warsaw), 2008-
• Guest Editor (with Joanna Pawelczyk) of Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics, vol. 48 (1), 2012. (Special Issue: Narratives in Contexts).
• Member of editorial board, Advances in Historical Sociolinguistics (book series published by JOHN BENJAMINS), 2013-

Scholarships

• Oxford University, 1987-88
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1998-99

Invited lectures

• Polish Language Seminar, Oxford University, 1988
• Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, 1993
• Teacher Training College, Zielona Góra, 1995
• University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1999
• Agder University College, Kristiansand, 2005
• Departamento de Filología Inglesa, Universidad de Murcia, 2008
• Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen, 2009
• University of Łódź, 2014
• Agder University, Kristiansand, 2014
• University College London, School of Slavonic and East European Studies, M B Grabowski Memorial Lecture, 2016

Projects

• At the doorstep to adulthood: adolescent health and quality of life in a variety of socio-economic backgrounds (ADOPOLNOR, funded by Norwegian Financial Instrument and EEA Financial Instrument), Research Group co-ordinator for Social aspects of the quality of life of adolescents in the context of (new) media impact (ADOPOLNOR Media)
• Erasmus Intensive Programme (EIP) Summer School Language Contact in Contemporary Europe, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-Universität Greifswald, 2014

Papers read at international conferences and congresses

• Second International Conference on Sociolinguistics, Slanchev Brag, Bulgaria, 1989
• International Conference on Typology and Linguistic Reconstruction, Rydzyna, 1993
• Sociolinguistic Symposium, Tromso, 1994
• Annual Societas Linguistica Europaea Meeting, Cracow, 1994
• 11th International Conference of Applied Linguistics, Volos, Greece, 1995
• 31st Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 1998
• 44th Anual Conference of the International Linguistic Association, New York, 1999
• 5th ESSE Conference, Helsinki, 2000
• Late Modern English Conference, Edinburgh, 2001
• GLOBE 2002, Globalization: English and Language Change in Europe, Warsaw, 2002
• Gender: From costs to benefits. 6th Interdisciplinary and International Symposium on Gender Research at Kiel University, Kiel, 2002
• 35th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM), Tarnowo Podgórne, 2004
• GlobE 2006, Communicating Across Age Groups: Age, Language and Society, Warsaw, 2006
• IGALA 4, Fourth International Gender and Language Association Conference, Valencia, 2006
• Discourse, Communication and the Enterprise IV, Nottingham, 2007
• Sociolinguistics Symposium 17, Amsterdam, 2008
• IGALA 5, Fifth International Language and Gender Association Conference, Wellington, New Zealand, 2008
• 39th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, 2008
• Annual Societas Linguistica Europaea Meeting, Lisbon, 2009
• 9th International Conference on Women’s Studies, Madrid, 2010
• IGALA 6, Sixth International Language and Gender Association Conference, Tokyo, 2010
• I-mean - Meaning and Context Conference, Bristol, 2011
• 42nd Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 2011
• 4th International Language in the Media Conference, Limerick, 2011
• IGALA 7, Seventh International Gender and Language Association Conference, Sao Leopoldo, Brazil, 2012
• International Istanbul Initiative on Aging Congress, Istanbul, 2013
• Public Policies in Media and Information Literacy in Europe, Sorbonne Nouvelle, Paris, 2013
• 8th International Symposium on Cultural Gerontology, Galway, 2014
• GLOBE: Past, Present and Future of Discourse Studies, Warsaw, 2015
• 14th International Pragmatics Association Conference, Antwerp, 2015
• Theoretical and Empirical Perspectives on Events and Narrative (TEPEN), Łódź, 2015 (plenary lecture)
• IGALA 9, Ninth International Gender and Language Association Conference, Hongkong, 2016
• Komunikacja w Medycynie I, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, 2016
• Sympozjum "Tekst, dyskurs, komunikacja miedzykulturowa - in memoriam Prof. Anny Duszak (1950-2015)", Warsaw, 2016
• Encounters in Language and Aging Research, International Conference CLARe3, Berlin, 2017
• 15th International Pragmatics Association Conference, Belfast, 2017
• Komunikacja w Medycynie II, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, 2017
• Symposium on Language Policies in the Light of Anti- Discrimination and Political Correctness: Tendencies and Changes in the Slavonic Languages, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Vienna, 2018
• 27th Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Łódź, 2018 (plenary lecture)
• Komunikacja w medycynie III, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, 2018
• Kolokwium Zakładu Badań nad Dyskursem ILS UW „Współczesne dyskursy służby zdrowia. Humanistyczne aspekty komunikacji w opiece medycznej", Warsaw, 2019
• Corpora for Language and Aging Research 4 (CLARe4), Helsinki, 2019
• YLMP 2021, 7th Young Linguists' Meeting in Poznań, 2021
• 50th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 2021
• Komunikacja w medycynie V, Medical University of Warsaw, Warsaw, 2021 (virtual event)
• Corpora for Language and Aging Research 5 (CLARe5), University of Alaska, Anchorage, 2022 (virtual event)
• LXI Konferencja Komitetu Badań nad Migracjami PAN „Migracje w dobie kryzysów społecznych”, Łódź, 2022
• April Conference, Jagiellonian University, Cracow, 2023
• 18th International Pragmatics Association Conference, Brussels, 9-14 July 2023
• Challenging the Binary: Non-binary, genderqueer and gender-neutral language, University College London, London, 13–15 June 2023

Organizer of international conferences

• Section co-organizer: Language and Gender Section, 35th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM), Tarnowo Podgórne, 2004
• Section co-organizer: Sociolinguistics Section, 36th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM), Poznań, 2005
• Session co-organizer: Disentangling Variation: Discourse in context, 40th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, 2009
• Workshop co-organiser: Narratives in interaction, 42nd Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 2011
• Conference panel co-organiser: 15th International Pragmatics Association Conference, Belfast, 2017
• Conference co-organiser: PASE 28 (Polish Association for the Study of
  English), Poznań, 2019
• Session co-organiser: 7th Young Linguists' Meeting in Poznań, 2021
• Conference panel co-organiser: NEW Approaches to the Study of Sound Structure and Speech. A special session in honour of prof. Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk, 51st Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM), Poznań, 2022

Honours

• Minister's of National Education Award for outstanding research results, 1997
• Prize of the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University for administrative achievements, 2010
• Prize of the Rector of Adam Mickiewicz University for administrative achievements, 2012
• Medal of the National Board of Education, 2013
• Gold Medal for Long Term Service, 2017