prof. UAM dr hab.Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman

Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman
Profesor nadzwyczajny (University professor)

Websites / Profiles:

Degrees

  • M.A. in English, Poznań, 1993
  • Ph.D. in English linguistics, Poznań, 1999
  • D.Litt. in lingusitics, Poznań, 2015

Research interests

  • Experimental pragmatics
  • Affective pragmatics
  • Affective neuroscience
  • Pragmatic inferencing and ‘mind-reading’
  • Language and affect interface

Research Projects

  • 2009–2013: 07-RNP-060 – "Experimental Pragmatics in Europe"; member of  Euro-XPRAG Steering Committee; Research Networking Program funded by European Science Foundation: http://www.euro-xprag.org
  • 2010–2012: "The Role of Stereotypes in Irony Comprehension in Autism Spectrum Disorders" (the European Science Foundation) (co-investigator)
  • 2016–2018: "Attitudes and emotions across languages: The case of Polish and Romanian" (the Polish Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Romanian Academy) (PI)
  • 2019–2021: "Bilingualism, emotions and creativity: The case of Polish and Romanian" (the Polish Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Romanian Academy) (PI)
  • 2018–2023: "Innovative language research in interdisciplinary perspectives: Psychology, sociology and technology" (The National Centre for Research and Development, POWR.03.02.00-00-I004/17) (head of PhD studies)
  • 2021–2024: "Unleashing the Power of Second Language Mastery: Cognitive Foundations of the Foreign Language Effect and Strategic Language Use" (Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange, PPN/PRO/2020/1/00006) (co-investigator)
  • 2022–2025: "How language of operation constrains communication of affect: Fundamental neurocognitive insights for a multilingual, emotion-driven, social media-obsessed world" (National Science Center, 2021/43/B/HS6/00184) (co-investigator)

Teaching experience

  • Experimental pragmatics
  • Cognitive pragmatics
  • Affective pragmatics
  • Theory of Mind and social intelligence
  • Intercultural and interlanguage pragmatics
  • TEFL at the academic level

Other professional experience

  • 2011- head of Language and Communication Laboratory, LCL/WA
  • 2016-2019 ESF College of Expert Reviewers
  • 2012- 2014 member of National Council for Cooperation with Europan Science Foundation (Polish Academy of Sciences)
  • 2009 - 2013 member of Standing Committee for EURO-XPRAG (ESF)
  • 2006-2009 TEFL coordinator (Adam Mickiewicz University)
  • 1999-2006 TEFL deputy coordinator (Adam Mickiewicz University)

Professional organizations

  • International Pragmatic Association (IPrA)
  • Polish Pragmatic Association (PPA)
  • Modern Language Association of Poland (PTN)

Guest lectures

  • Bielefeld University, Department of Psychology, 6-26 May 2017

Papers presented at international conferences and congresses

  • Język trzeciego tysiąclecia IV, Kraków, 9–11 March 2006
  • New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics. 3rd Łódź Symposium, Łódź, 11–14 May 2006
  • 18th International Conference on Foreign/Second Language Acquisition, Szczyrk, 18–20 May 2006
  • Annual Conference of Modern Language Association of Poland (PTN), Kraków, 11–13 September 2006
  • Communicating across age groups: Age, language and society. GlobE 2006. Warsaw, 21–23 September 2006
  • 17th European Second Language Association Conference (EUROSLA 17), Newcastle, 11–14 September 2007
  • Political Linguistics, Warsaw, 13–15 September 2007
  • 33rd International LAUD Symposium, Landau/Pfalz, 10–13 March 2008
  • New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics. 4th Łódź Symposium, Łódź, 15–18 May 2008
  • Interpreting for Relevance: Conference 4, Kazimierz Dolny, 17–18 June 2008
  • 18th European Second Language Association Conference (EUROSLA 18) Aix-en-Provence, France, 10–13 September 2008
  • 39th Poznan Linguistic Meeting (PLM2008) Gniezno, Poland, 11–14 September 2008
  • Experimental Pragmatics, (XPRAG 2009) Lyon, France, 23–25 April 2009
  • Relevance Round Table II, Warsaw, Poland, 5 June 2009
  • Polish Pragmatic Association General Assembly, Łódź, 18 September 2009
  • 4th Symposium on Intercultural, Cognitive and Social Pragmatics, Seville, 24–26 March 2010
  • EURO-XPRAG – Leuven Workshop, 10–12 June 2010
  • Interpreting for Relevance: Discourse and Translation, Kazimierz Dolny, 15–16 June 2010
  • Meaning and Cognition in Context, Łódz, 24–26 March 2011
  • Irony Workshop, Paryż (Jean Nicod Institut), 11–12 April 2011
  • 1st Seminar “Meaning in interaction”, Seville (Seville University), 17–18 May 2011
  • 4th Biennial Experimental Pragmatics Conference (XPRAG) 2011, Barcelona, 2–4 June 2011
  • EURO-XPRAG - Pisa Workshop, 30 September – 2 October 2011
  • 44th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 29 August –1 September 2013
  • 7th Conference on Interpreting for Relevance: Discourse and Translation, Warsaw, 29–30 September 2014
  • 47th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea, Poznań, 11–14 September 2014
  • 24th Conference of the Polish Association for the study of English (PASE), Wrocław, 17–19 April 2015
  • 45th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Poznań, 17–20 September 2015
  • AMLaP 2016, Bilbao, 1 August – 3 September 2016
  • 46th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Pozanń, 15–17 September 2016
  • Beyond Meaning, Athens, 12–15 September 2017
  • The First International Conference on Emotions, Language Processing and Psycholinguistic Testing (ELAPSYT), Bukareszt, 12–15 October 2017
  • CoNSALL: Cognitive Neuroscience of Second and Artificial Language Learning, Bangor, UK, 21–23 September 2018
  • Cognitive Linguistics in the year 2018, Conference of the Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association, Poznań, 24–26 September 2018
  • The flexible language in the flexible mind, Kraków, 29 September 2018
  • Bilingualism in Poland and Abroad, Wrocław, 24–25 May 2019
  • 28th Conference of the Polish Association for the study of English (PASE), Poznań 27–28 June 2019
  • Conference on Multilingualism 2019 (COM 2019), Leiden,1–3 September 2019
  • 49 Poznań Linguistic Meeting, 16–18 September 2019
  • Society for Psychophysiological Research 59 Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, 25–29 September 2019
  • Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 2020 (BMRS 2020), Cracow, 22 September 2020 (online conference)
  • Architectures and Mechanisms for Language Processing 2021 conference, Paris, 2–4 September 2021 (online conference)
  • 50th Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM 2021), Poznań,16–19 September 2021 (online conference)
  • 13th Annual Meeting of the Society for the Neurobiology of Language, 5–8 October 2021 (online conference)
  • Bilingualism Matters Research Symposium 2021, Edinburgh, 25–25 October 2021 (online conference)

Specialized training

  • EEG training workshop on "The Biosemi Active Two system in nerocognitive research," Neurostimulus, Poznań, Poland, 25–26 August 2021