prof. UAM dr hab.Agnieszka Kiełkiewicz-Janowiak

University professor

Websites / Profiles

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
  • 22nd International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Communication, Medicine and Ethics (COMET 2024), Brescia, 2024
  • 21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL 2024), Poznań, 2024

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