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Anna Stwora

University of Silesia, Sosnowiec, Poland
Sapienza University of Rome, Italy
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ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1134-1092

e-mail: anna.stwora@us.edu.pl
            anna_stwora@interia.eu

Research interests:

  • linguistic pragmatics

  • discourse of advertising

  • humour studies

  • sociolinguistics

  • specialised registers

  • cognitivism

  • communication studies

  • contrastive linguistics

Courses:

- MA seminar

- BA seminar

- academic writing

- composition

- conversation

(previously: academic writing, written translation, literary translation, practical grammar, conversation, reading comprehension, composition)

Education:

2018 – 2022              PhD degree in linguistics at the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy

                                     /under the inter-institutional bilateral agreement on the implementation

                                          of a joint doctoral program leading to a double PhD diploma between

                                          the Sapienza University of Rome and the University of Silesia/

                                     supervised by Professor Adam Wojtaszek (University of Silesia)

                                     co-supervised by Professor Irene Ranzato (Sapienza University of Rome)
 

2016 – 2020              PhD degree in linguistics at the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

                                     doctoral thesis: Synergistic application of metaphorical and humorous elements
                                    in Polish and English advertising discourse

                                     supervised by Professor Adam Wojtaszek (University of Silesia)

                                     co-supervised by Professor Irene Ranzato (Sapienza University of Rome)

2014 – 2016              MA degree in English Philology, culture - media - translation programme,  

                                     Faculty of Philology, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland
 

2011 – 2014              BA degree in English Philology, business language programme with French,  

                                     Faculty of Philology, University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland

Anna Stwora obtained a double PhD from the Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities of the University of Silesia in Katowice, Poland,
and the Sapienza University of Rome, Italy.

Her research interests revolve around multimodal discourse

of advertising, especially in its metaphorical and humorous dimensions, as well as around broadly conceived humour studies. She is also interested in specialised registers, cognitivism, communication studies, and contrastive linguistics.

In 2020, she took up a post as editorial assistant at The European Journal of Humour Research, an open-access, academic journal published by Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies and endorsed by The International Society for Humor Studies (ISHS). --> https://europeanjournalofhumour.org/index.php/ejhr
She is a member of the board of the Cracow Tertium Society
for the Promotion of Language Studies.
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https://www.tertium.edu.pl/
Furthermore, she acts as the supervisor (and founder) of NEOlinguists – the PhD candidate association, operating under the patronage
of the Faculty of Humanities
of the University of Silesia, Poland.
As vice-chairwoman (2017) and chairwoman (2018-2019) of NEOlinguists, she was the head of the organising committees of:
  • 2017 :  Humor Research Project seminar (HRP)                 
  • 2019 : Humor Research Project conference (HRP)
She has been involved in several projects, including seminars, workshops, and conferences devoted to humour and contrastive studies, as well as to business language and culture.
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