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Halszka Bąk

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dr Halszka Bąk

Adiunkt (Assistant professor)

Department of Pragmatics of English

Office: Collegium Heliodori, room 344
Phone: (+48) 61 829 3744
E-mail: hbak@wa.amu.edu.pl
Duty hours: link
Non-teaching duties (in Polish): link

Websites / Profiles::

Degrees

  • B.A. in English, Poznań, 2009
  • M.A. in Russian, Poznań, 2010
  • M.A. in English – Experimental Pragmatics, Poznań, 2011
  • Ph.D. in English Linguistics, Poznań, 2015

Research interests

  • Experimental Pragmatics
  • Language and Emotion Interface
  • Psycholinguistics
  • Linguistic Relativity
  • Multilingualism
  • Application of Research Methods for Linguistic Studies
  • Cognitive Linguistics

Participation in Research Grants

  • 2016-2018 -  joint research grant funded by the Polish Academy of Sciences in cooperation with the Romanian Academy - Attitudes and emotions across languages: the case of Polish and Romanian (RA)
  • 2016-2018 - SONATA 10: UMO-2015/19/D/HS6/00591 "Psychophysiological correlates of affective language processing in bilinguals" (RA)

Other professional experience

Professional organizations

  • Psychonomic Society Member

Papers read at international conferences

  • “Emotion-Language Interface Research” poster presented at Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research IX (EMLAR IX) in Utrecht, the Netherlands, 31st January 2013.
  • “The effects of linguistic and cultural factors on emotional prosody processing: An integrative view” presentation given at 1st Silesian Meeting of Young Scholars (SMYS) in Szczyrk, Poland 19th March 2013.
  • "Empathy and distress: Internal and external context dependency of emotion term selection" presentation given at 44th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, 29th August 2013.
  • "Poznań Induced Emotion Database – a new database of emotional  stimuli for emotion-language interface research” (co-authored with Jeanette Altarriba, PhD), 4th Young Linguists' Meeting Poznań, Poznań, Poland, 4-6 April 2014.
  • "Keeping an ear out for negativity – L2 emotion recognition bias for emotion prosody" (co-authored with Jeanette Altarriba, PhD) presentation given at PASE EMOTION(S) 2015 conference in Wroclaw, Poland, 17-19 April 2015.
  • "Keeping an ear out for negativity – L2 emotion recognition bias for emotion prosody" (co-authored with Jeanette Altarriba, PhD) presentation given at 45th PLM conference in Poznan, Poland, 17-19 September 2015.
  • "Emotion- and emotion-laden words effects in Polish-English and Romanian-English bilinguals", (co-authored: Bromberek-Dyzman, K., Jończyk, R., Bąk, H., Vasileanu, M., Niculescu-Gorpin, A. G.)

Guest lectures

  • "Empathy and distress: Internal and external context dependency of emotion term selection", guest lecture given at University at Albany SUNY, 8 Sept. 2014. 

Organizer of workshops

  • Experimental Methods in Linguistics (EmiL). Co-authored with Rafał Jończyk. 4th Young Linguists' Meeting Poznań, Poznań, Poland, 4-6 April 2014.
  • Experiment Designer's Roadmap. 5th Young Linguists' Meeting Poznań, Poznań, Poland, 25-27 Listopad 2016.

Awards:

Psychonomic Society's Member Select-Speaker Award at the 58th Annual Meeting in Vancouver, BC, Canada; 'For Exceptional Research that Exemplifies Theoretical Impact and Methodological Rigor'.

Publications