dr hab. Ewa Wałaszewska


Department of the English Language

associate professor

Room number: 236

Phone: +48 (22) 5531416

email: e.walaszewska@uw.edu.pl

  Office hours: Winter semester 2023/2024
Tuesdays 9.45-11.15, room 3.223 (by e-mail appointment)
dr hab. Ewa Wałaszewska

Degrees

M.A., University of Warsaw, 1995

Ph.D., University of Warsaw, 1999

Assistant Professor, 1999

Postdoctoral degree (Habilitacja), 2017


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