dr hab. Ewa Wałaszewska
Department of the English Language
associate professor
Room number: 3.223
Phone: +48 (22) 5531416
email: e.walaszewska@uw.edu.pl
- Wednesday, 2 September 2026, 8:30-10:00, Room 3.223 (by prior email appointment)
Additional office hours
- Tuesday, 22 September 2026, 13:30-15:00, Room 3.223 (by prior email appointment)
Winter semester 2026/2027
Wednesdays, 9:45- 11:15, Room 3.223 (by prior email appointment)
Degrees
M.A., University of Warsaw, 1995
Ph.D., University of Warsaw, 1999
Assistant Professor, 1999
Postdoctoral degree (Habilitacja), 2016
Research interests and projects
- Relevance Theory
- lexical pragmatics
- cognitive pragmatics
- experimental pragmatics
- theories of politeness
- semantics
- conversation analysis
- discourse analysis
Selected publications
Books
Piskorska, A. & Wałaszewska, E. (Eds.). (2017). Applications of Relevance Theory: From Discourse to Morphemes. . Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Wałaszewska, E. (2015). Relevance-Theoretic Lexical Pragmatics: Theory and Applications. . Newcastle upon Tyne (Wielka Brytania): Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Chapters
Wałaszewska, E. (2017). Contrastive reduplication and relevance theory. In A. Piskorska & E. Wałaszewska (Eds.). Applications of Relevance Theory: From Discourse to Morphemes. (pp. 277-298). Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Wałaszewska, E. (2017). The offensiveness of animal metaphors: A relevance-theoretic view. In S. Bonacchi (Ed.). Verbale Aggression. Multidisziplinäre Zugänge zur verletzenden Macht der Sprache. (pp. 73-88). Berlin: de Gruyter Mouton.
Wałaszewska, E. (2016). Metafora i ironia z perspektywy teorii relewancji. In J. Odrowąż-Sypniewska (Ed.). PRZEWODNIK PO FILOZOFII JĘZYKA. (pp. 447-469). Kraków: WYDAWNICTWO WAM.
Wałaszewska, E. (2014). The butcher-surgeon metaphor revisited: Ad hoc concepts and blends. In I. Witczak-Plisiecka (Ed.). Cognitive and pragmatic aspects of speech actions. (pp. 261-271). Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang.
Articles
Wałaszewska, E. (2014). How to Signal Lexical Concept Adjustment: A Relevance-Theoretic Perspective on Hedging. International Review of Pragmatics, 6, (pp. 240-262).
Wałaszewska, E. (2013). 'Like' in similes - a relevance-theoretic view. Research in Language, 11, (pp. 323-334).
Older publications can be found on the complete list in PBN