Last updated by mperdek on 2021-09-28. Originally submitted by tomash on 2010-08-19.
dr Sylwia Wojciechowska
Adiunkt (Assistant Professor)
Office: Collegium Heliodori, room 361
Phone: (+48) 61 829 3776
E-mail: sylwiab@amu.edu.pl
Duty hours: link
Non-teaching duties (in Polish): link
Websites / Profiles:
Degrees
- M.A. in English, Poznań, 2002
- Ph.D. in English, Poznań, 2009
Research interests
- Lexicography
- Lexical semantics
- Cognitive linguistics
- Figurative language
- Contrastive linguistics
- Corpus linguistics
Teaching experience
- EFL at university level (grammar, communicative practice, pronunciation)
- English phonetics and phonology
- English-Polish contrastive grammar
- B.A. seminars (Words and their meanings in dictionaries and corpora)
Other experience
- Coordinator of the International Student Trust Exchange Programme, Teacher Training College (Poznań), Roehampton University (London), 2005-2010
- LLP-Erasmus Coordinator, Teacher Training College, 2009-2010
- ECTS Coordinator, 2010-2012
- Dean's Representative for ECTS credits, 2012-2015
- EFL Communicative Practice Coordinator, 2015-2017
Research grants
- 2011-2012 - National Programme for the Development of Humanities, Polish Ministry of Higher Education (H31/80/2011), “Conceptual Metonymy and Lexicographic Representation” (publishing grant)
Editorial
- Member of the Editorial Team for Poznań Studies in Contemporary Linguistics (PSiCL) 50(1), 2014
Professional training and courses
- RaAM workshop: Corpus Linguistic Methods in Metaphor Analysis,4.07.2012, Lancaster, UK
- Effective Assessment of Learning Achievement: Tools and Techniques for University Classrooms - Project lead by Prof. Kristin Stang, California State University, Fullerton, 2016
Papers read at international conferences and congresses
- 13th International Symposium on Lexicography, Copenhagen, 2007
- 38th Poznań Linguistic Meeting, Gniezno, 2007
- Semantics without Borders, Bielsko-Biała, 2008
- 14th EURALEX International Congress, Leeuwarden, 2010
- Meaning, Context and Cognition, Łódź, 2011
- Metaphor Festival, Stockholm, 2011
- Researching and Applying Metaphor 9 (RaAM 9), Lancaster, UK, 2012
- 43rd Poznań Linguistic Meeting (PLM), Poznań, 2012
- EUROPHRAS 2014, Paris, France
- 6th UK Cognitive Linguistics Conference, Bangor, 2016
- 6th eLex Conference: Smart lexicography, Sintra, Portugal, 2019 (delivered by Robert Lew)
- 19th EURALEX International Congress: Lexicography for Inclusion, Alexandroupolis, Greece, 2021.
Guest lectures
- Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, 2010
Organizer of international conferences
- Head of the organizing committee, 4th Researching and Applying Metaphor Seminar (RaAM 2013): Metaphor, metonymy and emotions, Poznań, 2-5 May 2013
Honours
- AMU Rector's Prize for organisational achievements, 3rd degree (2012)
- AMU Rector's Prize for teaching achievements, 3rd degree (2013)
- Minister of Science and Higher Education's team award for didactic achievements (2015)
Publications
AMU Research Portal (OMEGA PSiR)
ORCID