Linguistics

Linguistics

Duration of the programme: 4 years (8 semesters) 

Programme description: 

The curriculum of the Doctorate School is designed to provide students with exhaustive knowledge on humanities and social sciences, as well as detailed linguistic knowledge. Our courses allow our students to expand their academic capabilities, including their skills in researching linguistic phenomena and processes from both the diachronic and the synchronic perspective, the analysis, interpretation, and creation of various types of texts (including scientific publications) and conducting linguistic research using the appropriate methods and techniques. Furthermore, the School teaches expert communication skills, including the ability to popularise the effects of one’s research.

Career opportunities:

Alumni of the Doctoral School are also:

  • Deeply familiar with humanities, particularly linguistic matters related to the subject of their doctoral projects;
  • Fully prepared to take on independent and team-based scientific challenges and to conduct top-quality research and teaching;
  • Able to use the knowledge and competences they have acquired for self-development and to progress their academic careers;
  • Able to find employment at universities, research institutes and other scientific and educational facilities.

Keywords:

  • linguistics
  • historical linguistics
  • contemporary linguistics
  • humanities methodology
  • humanities seminar

Candidates for PhD Supervisors

ORCID number:
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5384-0415

Department/Chair/Institute:
Department of English Language, Institute of Linguistics

Faculty:
Faculty of Humanities

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury

Tel.:
89 52 46 515

E-mail:
anna.drogosz@uwm.edu.pl

Personal website:
https://wh.uwm.edu.pl/anglistyka/katedra-jezyka-angielskiego/dr-hab-anna-drogosz

ResearchGate account:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Anna-Drogosz

Academic discipline:
Linguistics

Academic Achievement Indicators

  1. Number of publications according to the WoS/Scopus database:
  2. Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) without self-citations:
  3. Hirsch index (WoS/Scopus):
  4. Number of citations (Google Scholar): 125
  5. Hirsch index (Google Scholar): 7
  6. Number of promoted doctors: 0
  7. Number of supervised doctoral students: 0

I Will Take on the Supervision of:

  • A Polish doctoral student: Yes (1)
  • A foreign doctoral student: Yes (1)

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates

  1. A Cognitive Linguistics (i.e., the Conceptual Metaphor Theory, the Theory of Conceptual Blending) analysis of selected types of discourse.
  2. Functions of gestures in communication. Functions of gestures in communicating motoric experience, visual and abstract knowledge, and emotions.

Funds or Special Equipment Required for the Doctoral Project

  1. Is there funding available to cover the cost of research? Yes
  2. Is the infrastructure and adequate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair to serve the planned research tasks? Yes

ORCID number:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7581-4194

Department/Chair/Institute:
Chair of Applied Linguistics/Institute of Linguistics

Faculty:
Faculty of Humanities

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Tel.:
89 524 63 69

E-mail:
mariola.jaworska@uwm.edu.pl

Personal website:
—

ResearchGate account:
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Mariola-Jaworska

Academic discipline:
Linguistics

Academic Achievement Indicators

  1. Number of publications according to the WoS/Scopus database: 3
  2. Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) without self-citations: 3
  3. Hirsch index (WoS/Scopus): 1
  4. Number of citations (Google Scholar): 65
  5. Hirsch index (Google Scholar): 5
  6. Number of promoted doctors: —
  7. Number of supervised doctoral students: 2

I Will Take on the Supervision of:

  • A Polish doctoral student: Yes (1)
  • A foreign doctoral student: Yes (1)

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates

  1. An analysis of ways to optimize the learning and teaching of foreign language with particular emphasis on the use of digital technology.
  2. An analysis concerning the methods in which learners acquire foreign language, the learning techniques and strategies used.
  3. Examining the role of individual differences in specialist foreign language communication.

Funds or Special Equipment Required for the Doctoral Project

  1. Is there funding available to cover the cost of research? Yes
  2. Is the infrastructure and adequate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair to serve the planned research tasks? Yes

ORCID number:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6753-167X

Department/Chair/Institute:
Institute of Linguistics / Department of Polish Language and Logopedics

Faculty:
Faculty of Humanities

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Tel.:
504107945

E-mail:
iza.matusiak@uwm.edu.pl

Personal website:
—

ResearchGate account:
—

Academic discipline:
Linguistics

Academic Achievement Indicators

  1. Number of publications according to the WoS/Scopus database: 2
  2. Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) without self-citations: —
  3. Hirsch index (WoS/Scopus): —
  4. Number of citations (Google Scholar): 49
  5. Hirsch index (Google Scholar): 3
  6. Number of promoted doctors: —
  7. Number of supervised doctoral students: —

I Will Take on the Supervision of:

  • a. Polish doctoral student: Yes (1)
  • b. Foreign doctoral student: No

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates

  1. Historical and contemporary proper names in the cultural perspective
  2. Anthropological linguistics
  3. Values and evaluation in language and culture

Funds or Special Equipment Required for the Doctoral Project

  1. Is there funding available to cover the cost of research? YES
  2. Is the infrastructure and adequate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair to serve the planned research tasks? YES

ORCID number:
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4529-1644

Department/Chair/Institute:
Department of Polish Language and Logopedics / Linguistics Institute

Faculty:
Faculty of Humanities

University:
University of Warmia and Mazury in Olsztyn

Tel.:
89 524 63 51

E-mail:
mariola.wolk@uwm.edu.pl

Personal website:
—

ResearchGate account:
—

Academic discipline:
Linguistics

Academic Achievement Indicators

  1. Number of publications according to the WoS/Scopus database: 11
  2. Number of citations (WoS/Scopus) without self-citations: 4
  3. Hirsch index (WoS/Scopus): 1
  4. Number of citations (Google Scholar): 68
  5. Hirsch index (Google Scholar): 4
  6. Number of promoted doctors: 1
  7. Number of supervised doctoral students: 0

I Will Take on the Supervision of:

  • a. Polish doctoral student: Yes (1)
  • b. Foreign doctoral student: No

Scientific Interests or Research Topics Offered to Candidates

  1. Semantics
  2. Pragmatics
  3. Syntax
  4. Contemporary Polish language

Funds or Special Equipment Required for the Doctoral Project

  1. Is there funding available to cover the cost of research? Yes
  2. Is the infrastructure and adequate resources available in the Laboratory/Chair to serve the planned research tasks? Yes

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