mgr Dominika Zawadzka

ORCID: 0000-0002-9197-7196

The topic of my dissertation is “Pig- linguistic and cultural picture”

My main area of research is animals in language. The starting point was the linguistic and cultural image of a vegetarian, which I explored in my Master's thesis. The ethical and moral aspects of vegetarianism led me to a broad aspect of animal topics, such as human-animal relations, and animal studies. My research in linguistics is focusing on the method of the Linguistic Picture of the World, psycholinguistics, and the study of stereotypes in language. In my dissertation, I will present a monographic approach to the image of a pig in language and culture, based on literary and applied texts along with linguistic analysis and a broad sociocultural aspect.

The main research method used will be Linguistic Picture of the World (Językowy Obraz Świata- JOS), created by Jerzy Bartmiński and used primarily in ethnolinguistic research. The analysis will cover grammatical structures for instance categories of person, number, genre, tense, mode, and case, as well as lexis and phraseology.

The basis of the material will be literary and applied texts (e.g. press articles, Internet texts - comments, blogs, pro-animal campaigns). The analysis will cover texts from different periods. It will be also meaningful to add the changing perspective on animals over the centuries, as well as in recent years. Apart from the monographic approach and methodology of the linguistic worldview, an important aspect will be the inclusion of sociolinguistic, onomastic, and stereotyping research. The analysis will focus on the shift in the treatment of animals from the subject to the object. Moreover, it will be important to collect methods of analyzing the linguistic-cultural image of a chosen animal, so that it becomes possible to analyze another animal comprehensively and accurately using the same methods.

Besides my animal studies research, I teach Polish as a foreign language. I systematically expand my theoretical knowledge by participating in conferences and workshops. I aspire to continue studies also in this field.

Publications:

  1. Emocjonujący świat lektur szkolnych, [w:] Lektura wobec wyzwań współczesności, pod red. D. Karkut i A. Kucharskiej- Babuli, Rzeszów 2020, s. 164-172, ISBN 978-83-7996-840-4
  2. Językowy obraz pracy w opinii studentów, [w:]"Głos-język-komunikacja" Tom 7 Wartości i wartościowanie, Rzeszów 2020, s. 86-95, ISBN 978-83-7996-791-9
  3. Komunikacja niewerbalna oraz grzecznościowe akty mowy nauczycieli na lekcjach języka polskiego w szkole średniej- wybrane aspekty, [w:]“Głos- język- komunikacja” Tom 6 Młodzi mają głos” Rzeszów 2019, s. 250-268, ISBN 978-83-7996-731-5