dr hab. Paweł Kornacki
Department of the English Language
associate professor
Room number: 3.418
Phone: +48 (22) 5531416
email: p.kornacki@uw.edu.pl
Thursdays 1.30 - 3PM, Room 3.418
Degrees
M.A. in English, University of Warsaw, 1990
Ph.D. in Linguistics, The Australian National University, 1996
Associate Professor, University of Warsaw, 2012
Research interests and projects
anthropological linguistics
cross-cultural communication
contact languages
natural semantic metalanguage theory
languages: Chinese, Tok Pisin
PhD supervision
2016. Selected Aspects of Verbal Interaction in the Multilingual Society of Kurdistan. A Case Study: Greetings in Erbil. Sardar Bahri Abduljabbar Akrei. Wydział Neofilologii UW, Instytut Anglistyki
Selected publications
Chapter
Kornacki, P. (2017). Rènao: What does it mean to have a good time the Chinese way?. In A. Duszak , A. Jabłoński & A. Leńko-Szymańska (Eds.). East-Asian and Central-European Encounters in Discourse Analysis and Translation. (pp. 57-82). Warszawa: Instytut Lingwistyki Stosowanej WLS Uniwersytet Warszawski.
Kornacki, P. (2022). Chinese Cultural Keywords. In: Ye, Z. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Chinese Language Studies. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-0924-4_43
Articles
Kornacki, P. (2015). A Note on the Grammatical Functions and Patterns of Use of the Function Word 'ol' in Written Tok Pisin (New Guinea Pidgin). Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies, 24, (pp. 49-61).
Kornacki, P. (2019). A Look at Tok Pisin 'save': A Lexical Verb and an Aspectual Marker in a Cultural Context. Anglica An International Journal of English Studies. 28. 79-93. 10.7311/10.7311/0860-5734.28.2.05.
Kornacki, P. (2019). Wantok and Lain ‐ a look at two Melanesian cultural concepts in two Tok Pisin texts. Journal of New Zealand & Pacific Studies, 7(2), 137–156. https://doi.org/10.1386/nzps_00002_1
Kornacki, Paweł. (2022). Wok (‘work’) as a Melanesian Cultural Keyword: Exploring Semantic Insights from an Indigenous Tok Pisin Play. Anglica. An International Journal of English Studies. 10.7311/0860-5734.31.2.04.
Older publications can be found on the complete list in PBN
Conferences
Conferences
(2022) Kornacki, Paweł. Bekim (repay/revenge) - exploring a key Melanesian cultural concept in a Tok Pisin indigenous movie. HSIC 2022 : 1st International Humanities – Society – Identity Congress. University of Warsaw, 7 - 9 December, 2022.
(2023) Kornacki, Paweł. Lapun Topio i save long independence, or what the old man Topio learned about 'independence.' A cultural semantic look at Melanesian words for new meanings in Manmato Uvako's early prize-winning Tok Pisin story. HSIC 2023 : 2 nd International Humanities – Society – Identity Congress. University of Warsaw, 6 - 7 December, 2023.
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