University of Silesia in Katowice
krystyna.warchal@us.edu.pl
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8422-4911
Krystyna Warchał is an associate professor at the Institute of Linguistics, University of Silesia in Katowice. She works in the area of genre analysis, sociolinguistics, and discourse analysis. Her particular focus is on scholarly communication. Her research interests include academic discourse and Polish-English contrastive studies, English as an international language of science, and epistemic modality. She is also interested in translation studies, in particular, academic translation. She has recently been involved in research projects related to changes in Polish academic discourse practices and multilingualism in academic communication, especially in the context of globalisation, internationalisation of science and higher education, and science policy.
Selected publications:
Warchał, Krystyna. (2022). The effects of globalisation of science on Polish academic discourse: Tracing a rhetorical change. Fachsprache 44 (1–2) https://doi.org/10.24989/fs.v44i1-2.1951
Warchał, K., & Zakrajewski, P. (2021). Multilingual publication practices in the social sciences and humanities at a Polish university: Choices and pressures. International Journal of Multilingualism https://doi.org/10.1080/14790718.2021.1966432
Zakrajewski, P., & Warchał, K. (2021). Języki publikacji w polskiej humanistyce i w naukach społecznych [Languages of publication in the Polish humanities and social sciences]. Socjolingwistyka 35, 125–143. https://doi.org/10.17651/SOCJOLING.35.8
Warchał, K (2020). Business and academic cultures in contact: Some insights from academic communication practices and research. In U. Michalik, P. Zakrajewski, I. Sznicer, & A. Stwora (Eds.), Exploring Business Language and Culture (pp. 219–238). Springer.
Warchał, K. (2019). Humour in professional academic writing (with some implications for teaching). TAPSLA 5(1), 43–54.
Warchał, K. (2019). Academic Writing instruction – some missing links. In D. Gabryś-Barker (Ed.), Challenges of FL instruction in the university context (pp. 71–86). University of Silesia Press.
Warchał, K. (2018). The place of the purpose statement in linguistics article introductions: An English–Polish perspective. Linguistica Silesiana 39, 327–346.
Warchał, K. (2015). Certainty and doubt in academic discourse: Epistemic modality markers in English and Polish linguistics articles. University of Silesia Press.
Łyda, A., & Warchał, K (Eds.) (2014). Occupying niches: Interculturality, cross-culturality and aculturality in academic research. Springer.
Łyda, A., & Warchał, K. (2014). Gender and academicity: Insights from research article abstracts. In M. Bondi & R. Lorés-Sanz (Eds.), Abstracts in academic discourse: Variation and change (pp. 111–128). Peter Lang.
Warchał, K. (2014). The face of a scholar: Selected interpersonal strategies in journal article introductions. Linguistica Silesiana 35, 305–326.
Warchał, K., Łyda, A., & Jackiewicz, A. (2011). Whose face? Us and them in consecutive interpreting. META 56(4), 775–795.
Łyda, A., & Warchał, K. (2011). Ethnic and disciplinary cultures and understatement: Litotic constructions in Polish and English linguistics and biology research articles. In J. Arabski & A. Wojtaszek (Eds.), Aspects of culture in second language acquisition and foreign language learning (pp. 193–216). Springer.
Łyda, A., Warchał, K., & Jackiewicz, A. (2011). Managing criticism and praise by trainee interpreters: Looking for gender differences. In J. Arabski & A. Wojtaszek (Eds.), Individual learner differences in SLA (pp. 161–183). Multilingual Matters
Łyda, A., Warchał, K., & Jackiewicz, A. (2011). Czy czynnik płci ma znaczenie w przekładzie ustnym? [Does the gender factor matter in interpreting?] In P. Janikowski (Ed.), Z zagadnień dydaktyki tłumaczenia ustnego (pp. 33–52). Wyższa Szkoła Lingwistyczna w Częstochowie.
Łyda, A., Jackiewicz, A., & Warchał, K. (2010). Agentless structures in the interpreter’s output: Looking into the gender factor. Linguistica Silesiana 31, 193¬–208.
Warchał, K. (2010). Moulding interpersonal relations through conditional clauses: Consensus-building strategies in written academic discourse. Journal of English for Academic Purposes 9, 140–150.
Warchał, K. (2010). Encoding certainty: On some epistemic modality markers in English and Polish research articles. The case of MUST / MUSIEĆ. TRANS: Internet-Zeitschrift für Kulturwissenschaften 17 (Januar).
Łyda, A., Jackiewicz, A., & Warchał, K. (2010). To get what you want. Triggering agentlessness in the consecutive mode. In Ł. Bogucki (Ed.), Teaching translation and interpreting: Challenges and practices (193–212). Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Warchał, K. (2010). Taking stance across languages: High-value modal verbs of epistemic necessity and inference in English and Polish linguistics research articles. Linguistica Silesiana 31, 123–136.
Łyda, A., & Warchał, K. (2010). Jak akademicki jest dyskurs akademicki – płeć a leksyka w abstraktach artykułów naukowych. [How academic is academic discourse? Gender and lexis in journal article abstracts] In J. Arabski & J. Ziębka (Eds.), Płeć języka – język płci (pp. 85–105). Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania Marketingowego i Języków Obcych w Katowicach.
Jackiewicz, A., Warchał, K., & Łyda, A. (2010). Kolory płci. Nazwy barw w dwóch polskich przekładach Wielkiego Gatsby’ego. [Colours of the gender. names of colours in two Polish translations of The Great Gatsby]. In J. Arabski & J. Ziębka (Eds.), Płeć języka – język płci (pp. 31–44). Wyższa Szkoła Zarządzania Marketingowego i Języków Obcych w Katowicach.