PROFIL PRACOWNIKA: Anna Ewa Wieczorek

- conducting BA and MA courses

- a member of the Institute of English Studies Council

- a member of the Didactic Council at the Institute of English Studies

Academic degrees:

2011 Doktor (corresponding to the Ph.D. degree), Lodz University (“Clusivity in Barack Obama Pre-Election Speeches”)

2007 Magister (corresponding to the MA degree), Lodz University (“Cognitive-Pragmatic Aspects of Legitimisation in the Discourse of Historic Change”)

Research interests:

Legitimisation and image construction in political discourse

Communicating inclusion and exclusion

Narrative elements in political discourse

Grants:

2015 Monophony and polyphony in dialogic and non-dialogic political narratives (research grant for young scientists)

2016 Narrative elements in political discourse: Perspective and representation (research grant for young scientists)

2017 On building an image of the leader via (self-)quotes in presidential speeches (research grant for young scientists)

Educational-research projects:

2015-2018 – National Project Manager.

Grant awarded by FRSE, Erasmus+, Key Action 2: Strategic Partnership for school education. Cooperation for Innovation and the Exchange of Good Practices: Grant awarded for realising the international project with multiple beneficiaries, coordinated by The Language Center srl, Italy – C4C – CLIL for Children – Content and Language Integrated Learning for Children.

2014-2016 – Team member.

Grant awarded by FRSE, Erasmus+, Key Action 2: Strategic partnerships; Cooperation for innovation and the exchange of good practices, agreement number 2014-1-PL01-KA200-003578. Funding awarded for realisation of the international project with multiple beneficiaries, coordinated by the University of Łódź – DysTEFL2 – Dyslexia for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language.

2011-2013 – Team member.

Grant awarded by the Lifelong Learning Programme, Comenius Multilateral Project, agreement number 2011-3631/001-001. Funding awarded for the realisation of the international project with multiple beneficiaries, coordinated by the University of Łódź – DysTEFL – Dyslexia for Teachers of English as a Foreign Language.

BA theses supervision on:

Image construction and legitimisation in political discourse

Persuasion and manipulation in media discourse

Inclusion and exclusion

The language of advertising and social campaigns

Courses:

BA seminar (Pragmatics)

Specialisation seminar (Communication in political discourse)

Linguistics tutorial (Persuasion and manipulation)

Practical English – Integrated Skills (MA)

Introduction to Linguistics (BA)

Pragmatics (MA)

Interpreting

Translation

Business English

Didactic publications:

Wieczorek, Anna Ewa. (2023) A Vocabulary Companion to Practical English 1. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego.

(https://wydawnictwo.uni.lodz.pl/produkt/a-vocabula...)

Wieczorek, Anna Ewa. (2023) A Vocabulary Companion to Practical English 2. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego.

https://wydawnictwo.uni.lodz.pl/produkt/a-vocabula...

Selected research publications:

Wieczorek, Anna Ewa. (2020) “Embedded discourse spaces in narrative reports.” Discourse Studies 22(2), w druku.

Wieczorek, Anna Ewa. (2019) “The (de)legitimising power of narrative reports: A case study of covert sayers.” Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 15.1, w druku.

Wieczorek, Anna Ewa. (2017) „’I hope you don’t mind me quoting you’: Narrative reports in the service of (de)legitimisation.” In Events and Narratives in Language, Łódź Studies in Language 52, edited by Janusz Badio, 205-221. Peter Lang: Frankfurt am Main.

Wieczorek, Anna Ewa. (2015) „’Look who’s talking now’: A taxonomy of speakers in single-turn political discourse.” Discourse Studies 17(3): 343-359.

Wieczorek, Anna Ewa. (2013) Clusivity: A New Approach to Association and Dissociation in Political Discourse. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.

Wieczorek, Anna Ewa. (2010) „’And I quote’: Direct and indirect point-of-view switches in clusivity-oriented discourse.” Lodz Papers in Pragmatics 6.2: 229-247.

Wieczorek, Anna Ewa. (2009) „This is to say you are either in or out: Some remarks on clusivity.” Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines 3.2: 118-129.

Wieczorek, Anna Ewa. (2008) „Proximisation, common ground and assertion-based patterns for linguistic legitimisation.” Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines 2.1: 31-48.