Dr. Urszula Okulska

The Author: Urszula Okulska graduated from Adam Mickiewicz School of English, PoznaD, where she received a Ph.D. in English historical linguistics. At present she works at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Warsaw University, where she lectures sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. Her research interests include the history of English, text linguistics, cross-cultural communication, social semiotics, and corpus linguistics. She has co-edited (with Anna Duszak) the volume Speaking from the...See more

The Author: Urszula Okulska graduated from Adam Mickiewicz School of English, PoznaD, where she received a Ph.D. in English historical linguistics. At present she works at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, Warsaw University, where she lectures sociolinguistics and discourse analysis. Her research interests include the history of English, text linguistics, cross-cultural communication, social semiotics, and corpus linguistics. She has co-edited (with Anna Duszak) the volume Speaking from the margin. Global English from a European perspective (Peter Lang 2004), and published on synchronic and diachronic aspects of language change, development of English specialized genres, gender-conditioned variation in English and Polish, political discourse, and the applicability of English diachronic corpora to sociolinguistic, discourse-pragmatic, and ethnolinguistic research. See less