Prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Greń
University of Warsaw
Prof. dr hab. Zbigniew Greń is a full professor at the Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies at the University of Warsaw. In 1996-1999 he was the deputy director of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, from 1999 to 2007 the director of this Institute, and in 2005-2012 he was the vice-dean of the Faculty of Polish Studies at the University of Warsaw, from 2012 r. is its dean.
A graduate of Slavic philology with a specialization in bohemistics at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow, where in 1979 he received a master’s degree, in 1985 a doctor of humanities. In the years 1983-2012, he was employed at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, where in 1994 he obtained the degree of habilitated doctor, and in 2002, the title of professor. Since 2002, also professionally associated with the University of Warsaw.
The areas of his scientific activity are: Slavic linguistics, especially bohemistics and Silesian studies, including the issues of the Silesian-Czech-Slovak border in Cieszyn Silesia, and the branches of his linguistic interests are: sociolinguistics, lexicology, dialectology, semantics and syntax in comparative, Czech and Polish interdisciplinary research, including the relationship between language and identity. He is the author of over 150 scientific publications, including 4 original and 2 co-authored books.
He is, inter alia, a long-term member of the Committee of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences, its chairman in its current term of office, as well as a member of the International Committee of Slavists , a member of the Polish-Czech Scientific Society (a scientific secretary), an ordinary member of the Warsaw Scientific Society, a member of the Sociolinguistics Commission at the International Committee of Slavists, of the Council of the Center for Research on the Culture of Warsaw and of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He participates in the works of editorial teams and scientific councils of journals: Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, Nová čeština doma a ve světě, Prace Filologiczne, Rocznik Slawistyczny.
Prof. dr hab. Halina Kurek
Jagiellonian University in Krakow
Doctor of philosophy with habilitation, halina.kurek@uj.edu.pl; a researcher of changes in the Polish language used in towns and villages in the 20th and 21st centuries from the sociolinguistic and cultural perspective; the director of the Department of Cultural Linguistics and Sociolinguistics at the Faculty of Polish Studies of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow; the president of the Council for the Discipline of Linguistics at the Jagiellonian University; the president of the Sociolinguistics Commission affiliated at the International Committee of Slavists; the president of the Krakow Department of the Linguistics Commission of the Polish Academy of Sciences; a member of the Linguistics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences; and a member of the scientific councils of the magazines: “Sociolinguistics” and “LingVaria”. Her published works include: Metodologia socjolingwistycznego badania fonetyki języka mówionego środowisk wiejskich [Methodology of Sociolinguistic Analysis of Spoken Language Phonetics in Villages] (based on the ex ample of several villages in the Low Beskids) (Kraków 1990), Przemiany językowe wsi regionu krośnieńskiego [Linguistic Changes in the Villages of the Krosno Region] (Kraków 1995), Przemiany leksyki gwarowej na Podkarpaciu [Changes in the Dialectal Lexis of the Sub-Carpathian Region] (Kraków 2003), Polszczyzna mówiona inteligencji [Spoken Polish of Intelligentsia] (Kraków 2008), and Przemiany fleksji nominalnej w polszczyźnie przełomu wieków XX i XXI [Changes in Nominal Inflection in Polish at the Turn of the 20th and 21st Centuries] (based on the example of names and surnames, as well as appellatives).
Prof. dr hab. Ievgeniia Karpilovska
Institute of Ukrainian Language at the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine
Ievgeniia Karpilovska is a Doctor of Philology, Professor, Chief of the Department of Lexicology, Lexicography and Structural-Mathematical Linguistics of the Institute of Ukrainian Language at the National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine (Kyiv, Ukraine). Her main researches are related to the problems of interaction of social and linguistic dynamics, the study of trends in the Ukrainian word formation and morphemics, social stratification of the language corpus, the use of computer technologies in linguistics, in particular, in creating dictionaries of new types.
Her main scientific works are: Root dictionary of the families of words in Ukrainia, Active resources of the Modern Ukrainian nomination (co-author and editor), Dynamic processes in the Modern Ukrainian lexicon (co-author). She is also the author of the chapter Ukrainian of the international collective work Word-Formation: An International Handbook of the Languages of Europe.
Ыhe has been actively working in the Commission on Sociolinguistics as well as in the Commission of Slavic Word-Formation and Commission of Lingustic Bibliography at the International Committee of Slavists.
Prof. dr. hab. Vladimír Patráš
Matej Bel University in Banská Bystrica
Professor of general linguistics, university teacher. In his scientific, pedagogic and publishing activities both at home and abroad he deals with human communication through the visor of general, comparative and systemic linguistics, sociolinguistics, pragmalinguistics, theory of communication, and mediology. His dominant interest lies in the interdisciplinary research of communication in society, focused on the language – i.e. the field of spoken (oral) language, communication within various micro-communities based on common interest or profession, in the mass media, politics and electronic environment. He has maintained professional contacts with several scientific schools and academic institutions, and presented the results of his investigations at local and foreign scientific forums (Austria, Belarus, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Germany, Hungary, Poland, Russian Federation, Serbia). Active participant in 96 international and national scientific forums. Head of the organizational set-up and co-organizer of 16 international scientific conferences (5 of them in foreign co-organization). Chief solver and co-solver of 10 scientific projects. Author and co-author of 8 university study programmes.
Publications: author of the books Interdisciplinárne kooperácie (Interdisciplinary Co-operations) 2002; Sociolinguistic Aspects of Electronically Determined Communication / Sociolingvistické aspekty elektronicky podmienenej komunikácie 2009; Pohotové čítanie a myšlienkové spracovanie textu (Efficient Reading and Mental Processing of the Text) 2011; Theoretical and Applicative Insights into the Dynamics of Spoken Communication / Dynamika hovorenej komunikácie v teoretických a aplikačných náhľadoch, 2016. Co-author of the books: Jazyk – komunikácia – spoločnosť (Language – Communication – Society) 1997; Jazyk v komunikácii vybraných spoločenských prostredí (Language in Communication of Selected Social Environments) 1999; S. Čmejrková – J. Hoffmannová (eds.), Jazyk, média, politika (Language, Media, Politics), 2003; Manipulačno-komunikačné a persuazívno-komunikačné koncepcie (Manipulative-communicative and persuasive-communicative concepts) 2017, and others.
Memberships: international editorial board of Glottotheory journal, Akademie Verlag – De Gruyter Berlin, Germany (from 2012); accredited Commission for Sociolinguistics at the International Committee of Slavists – Jagellonian University in Cracow, Poland (from 2010); Slovak Accreditation Agency for Higher Education – Executive Board member SAAHE in Bratislava, Slovakia (from 2019), and others.