Full Professor of Linguistics at University of Silesia in Katowice, (Poland) and at Częstochowa University of Technology (Poland); MA in English philology, University of Silesia in Katowice (1986); PhD in linguistics in 1993 (dissertation:
Semantics and Pragmatics of Verba Dicendi in English); dr hab. (D. Litt; post-PhD degree) in humanities in 2007 (dissertation:
Concessive Relation in Spoken English. A Study into Academic Spoken English); Full (State) Professor in Humanities (2015); the Sidney Holgate scholarship holder of Durham University (1988, 2003) and of COBUILD lexicographic and corpus linguistic team at the University of Birmingham (2004); director of the Institute of English (2008-2016); deputy director of the Institute of English (1998-2008);) head of the Department of Translation and Interpreting Studies (2008-2019); head of the Postdiploma Study for English Translators (2002-2016); member of the board of Polish Association for the Study of
English (1996-2000); secretary of ISAPL (International Society of Applied Psycholinguistics, 2014-2019); member of several international editorial boards; researcher in eight European projects in linguistics and language teaching; researcher in three National Research Committee projects in the field of lexicography; organizer and co-organizer of more than twenty domestic and international conferences; forensic linguistics court expert; translator; member of the Linguistics Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2015-2019); member of the Committee of Applied Linguistics at the Committee of Linguistics of the Polish Academy of Sciences (2010-2015); member of the Linguistic Committee of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Katowice (1994 -); member of the Polish Accreditation Commission (2016–2019); expert of the Polish Accreditation Commission (2014-2018); member of English philology assessment group at the University Accreditation Commission (2010-2012); member of the scientific council of The Professor Tadeusz Widła Interdisciplinary Research Centre for Forensic Science and Legislation at University of Silesia; supervisor of 13 doctoral dissertations, reviewer of 19 habilitation (D. Litt) dissertations and 18 doctoral dissertations; a speaker and a key speaker at over 100 conferences; his major research areas are semantics and pragmatics of modern English, academic discourse and specialized languages and (psycho)linguistic aspects of translation and interpreting, to which he keenly applies methods of corpus linguistics. His academic motto is well-reflected by the following quotation from Wolfgang Teubert (2010):
My view is that the world, our lives, the things we do or don’t do, and what happens to us, have no meaning at all, in as much as we do not appropriate them through interpretation. Our experiences only make sense when we reflect on them, or when we share them with others by talking about them, or when we weigh them against other people’s experiences as we find them in the media we consume. This is indeed what we do most of the time when we talk with each other: we assign meaning to what we do and what others do.
Publications
Books: (co) authored:
Łyda, Andrzej, Iwona Sikora, Marta Wiśniowska and Marek Zasempa (2022) Linguistic and cultural aspects of specialised translation, Wydawnictwo Politechniki Częstochowskiej: Częstochowa.
Łyda Andrzej (2013). Reflections on Academic Discourse: Studies in Academic English Lexis. Uniwersytet Śląski: Katowice.
Łyda Andrzej (2007). Concessive Relation in Spoken English. A Study into Academic Spoken English. Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego: Katowice.
Arabski, Janusz and Andrzej Łyda (1997). Czasowniki angielskie: słownik [English verbs: a dictionary], Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego: Katowice.
Books: (co) edited
Andrzej Łyda i Katarzyna Holewik (eds.) Interdisciplinary encounters: Dimensions of interpreting studies. WUŚ: Katowice. 2017.
Drożdż Grzegorz and Andrzej Łyda (eds.) (2015). Extension and Its Limits. Cambridge Scholars Publishers: Cambridge.
Łyda Andrzej, Obłąk-Będkowska Marzena i Ziębka Justyna (eds.) (2014) Językowe aspekty agresji [Linguistic aspects of aggresion]. Wydawnictwo WSZMiJO: Katowice.
Warchał Krystyna and Łyda Andrzej (eds.) (2014) Cultural Interfaces in Academic Setting and Beyond. Uniwersytet Śląski: Katowice.
Łyda Andrzej and Drożdż Grzegorz (eds.) (2014). Dimensions of the Word. Cambridge Scholars Publishers: Cambridge.
Łyda Andrzej and Warchał Krystyna (eds.) (2014). Occupying Niches: Culturality, Interculturality, and Aculturality in Academic Research. Springer: Heidelberg - Dordrecht - London - New York.
Łyda Andrzej (2013). Reflections on Academic Discourse: Studies in Academic English Lexis. Uniwersytet Śląski: Katowice.
Łyda Andrzej and Szcześniak Konrad (eds.) (2013). Awareness in Action. The Role of Consciousness in Language Acquisition. Springer: Heidelberg - Dordrecht - London - New York.
Recent publications:
Łyda, A. (2022) (Un)translatability: Language and Culture. In: Łyda, Andrzej, Iwona Sikora, Marta Wiśniowska and Marek Zasempa Linguistic and cultural aspects of specialised translation, Wydawnictwo Politechniki Częstochowskiej: Częstochowa.
Łyda, A. (2022) Strategies, Methods and Techniques and the Translation of Culture-Oriented Texts. In: Łyda, Andrzej, Iwona Sikora, Marta Wiśniowska and Marek Zasempa Linguistic and cultural aspects of specialised translation, Wydawnictwo Politechniki Częstochowskiej: Częstochowa.
Łyda, A. (2022) The Translation Challenges in British and American Culture: An Overview. In: Łyda, Andrzej, Iwona Sikora, Marta Wiśniowska and Marek Zasempa Linguistic and cultural aspects of specialised translation, Wydawnictwo Politechniki Częstochowskiej: Częstochowa.
Łyda Andrzej, Zasowska Monika Magdalena (2021): Fictional threatening : the case of disjunctive conditionals, Linguistica Silesiana, vol. 42, pp. 207-237.
Łyda, A.ndrzej (2021). Gendered Existence? Existential-There Construction in English-Polish Translation. East European Journal of Psycholinguistics, 8(2).
Łyda. Andrzej (2020). The excitement of doing/translating science: Emotivity in Polish and English research articles and popular science texts. Belgrade English Language and Literature Studies: BELLS 90. Vol, . Belgrade: University of Belgrade Press.
Łyda, Andrzej (2020) Zbitki językowe w naukach inżynieryjno-technicznych [Lexical bundles in engineering]. Tradycyjne podejście i nowe perspektywy w nauczaniu języków obcych In: Ewa Bieńkowska-Kajko, Ewa Mężyk, Bożena Stefanowicz (eds.) Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej: Gliwice.