Ewa Wałaszewska Ph.D.

Duty hours in the winter semester 2008/2009:

• urlop wychowawczy (23.08.2006 - 22.08.2009)

Degrees:

• Ph.D. "Negation for Denial in English Conversation", Warsaw University, 1999
• M.A. "Metaphors in Experientialism (G. Lakoff and M. Johnson) and in the Theory of Relevance (D. Sperber and D. Wilson)", Warsaw University, 1995

Positions:

• Reader in theoretical linguistics, Institute of English Studies Warsaw University, 1999-

Conferences co-organisede:

• Interpreting for Relevance: Discourse and Translation. Conference 1. (6-8 June 2002, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland)
• Interpreting for Relevance: Discourse and Translation. Conference 3. (12-14 June 2006, Kazimierz Dolny, Poland, http://venus.ci.uw.edu.pl/~ifrc )

Academic interests:

• semantics
• pragmatics
• psychology of language

Selected Publications:

Articles:

• "The distinction between novel and non-novel metaphors in experientialism and in the theory of relevance", [w:] Anglica. Essays in Literature, Culture and Language 7, [red.] A. Weseliński i J. Wełna, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 1997, s. 109-123
• "Means of denial in English conversation", [w:] PASE Papers in Literature, Language and Culture. Proceedings of the sixth annual conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Puławy, April 1997 [red.] E. Gussmann i B. Szymanek, Redakcja Wydawnictw KUL, Lublin 1998, s. 557-565
• "Defining denial", [w:] PASE Papers in Language Studies: Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference of the Polish Association for the Study of English, Szczyrk, May 1998 [red.] J. Arabski, (ed.) "Para", Katowice 1999, s. 221-231
• ""Damning by faint praise" and "praising by faint damns" - a relevance-theoretic approach to implicated condemnation and commendation", [w:] PASE Papers in Linguistics, Translation and TEFL Methodology [red.] E. Mańczak-Wohlfeld, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego, Kraków 2002, s. 125-131
• "Negation and implicature denial", [w:] PASE Papers in Language Studies [red.] D. Stanulewicz, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Gdańskiego, Gdańsk 2002, s. 301-307
• "What to do with response cries in Relevance Theory?", [w:] Relevance Studies in Poland. Volume 1 [red.] E. Mioduszewska, Instytut Anglistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa 2004, s. 119-129
• (razem z M. Łuczakiem) "Metalinguistic negation, implicitness and rectification", [w:] Relevance Studies in Poland. Volume 1 [red.] E. Mioduszewska, Instytut Anglistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa 2004, s. 131-142
• "Metarepresentation, denial and negation in relevance theory", [w:] Anglica. Tendencies in Literature, Culture and Language [red.] A. Weseliński i J. Wełna, (eds.) Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2005, s. 119-125
• "A relevance-theoretic perspective on overextension in word learning", [w:] Relevance Studies in Poland. Volume 2 [red.] A. Korzeniowska i M. Grzegorzewska, Instytut Anglistyki, Uniwersytet Warszawski, Warszawa 2005, s. 89-97

Edited books:

• (razem z E. Mioduszewską) Interpreting for relevance: discourse and translation. Conference I: abstracts Wydawnictwa UW, Warszawa 2002

Courses:

• Course 184 Introduction to Pragmatics - This course provides an introduction to the basics of pragmatic description, its goals and methods. The course will examine various sentential inferences (e.g. presupposition, implicature) and linguistic phenomena (e.g. referentiality, politeness). Topics to be covered include influential pragmatic theories such as the theory of implicature and speech act theory
• Course 1632 Models of politeness - This course will explore ways in which people use language to express politeness, reflecting their social relationships. The course seeks to describe and compare two approaches to politeness phenomena - G. Leech's theory of politeness (based on the Politeness Principle and its attendant maxims) and P. Brown and S. Levinson's model, in which the pivotal element is the notion of "face" (one's public self-image).
• Course 2637 The semantics and pragmatics of negation - This course will investigate the meaning and use of negation in English. The course will deal with relations between negation and various sentential inferences and explore its role in everyday conversation (e.g. rejection, denial, non-acceptance).
• Course 2636 The Dynamics of Communication - This course will explore ways in which a formal structure of a speech event (a casual conversation or an institutional act) interacts with the dynamics of meaning generation. The course will deal with conversational phenomena resulting from the structure of a speech event as well as conscious (or unconscious) ways of generating meanings. The course will also analyse contextual, socio-cultural and psychological aspects of the communication process.
• Course 2650 Cognitive Pragmatics - KThis course will address issues related to the influence of mental processes on intentional communication from the perspective of cognitive pragmatics - a theory combining the classical pragmatics of J. L. Austin, H. P. Grice and J. R. Searle with investigations into so-called "theory of mind". Topics to be covered include mental representations and metarepresentations, lexicalised and non-lexicalised concepts, metaphorical and metonymic uses of language, lexical narrowings and broadenings in the process of communication. The course will also look into some aspects of language acquisition in young children and communication disorders in people with autism.