Karol Janicki
Position
Emeritus
Affiliation
Research
Research interests
- Sociolinguistics
- Cognitive linguistics
- General semantics
- Philosophy of language
Publications
Publications
Selected books
- Language and conflict. Selected issues. 2015. London: Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/language-and-conflict-karol-janicki/?K=9781137381408
- Confusing discourse. 2010. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/confusing-discourse-karol-janicki/?K=9780230232600
- Language misconceived. Arguing for applied cognitive sociolinguistics. 2006. London: Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780805856828/
- Standard British and American English. A brief overview. 2005. Copenhagen: Dj酶f Forlag. http://www.djoef-forlag.dk/da/Soegeresultat?q=Karol+Janicki
- Against essentialism: toward language awareness. 1999. M眉nchen: Lincom Europa.
- Toward non-essentialist sociolinguistics. 1990. Berlin-New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
- Sociolinguistics in Poland (ed.). A guest edited issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language 78. 1989.
- The foreigner's language. A sociolinguistic perspective. 1985. Oxford: Pergamon Press.
Selected recent articles
- "Connecting the linguist to industry and public institutions". 2014. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Vol. 24. No. 1. 38-49.http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijal.12027/abstract
- "Communication and understanding鈥. 2011. Applied Folk Linguistics. AILA Review 24. Eds. Wilton, Antje and Martin Stegu . Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 68-77. https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/aila.24/toc
- "Lay people's language problems". 2010. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Vol. 20. No. 1. 73-94. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1473-4192.2009.00229.x/abstract
- 鈥淗ow cognitive linguists can help to solve political problems鈥. 2008. In: Gitte Kristiansen and Ren茅 Dirven (eds.) Cognitive sociolinguistics: Language variation, cultural models, social systems. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
- "The sociology of language鈥. 2004. In: Ammon, Ulrich, Dittmar, Norbert, Mattheier, Klaus and Peter Trudgill (eds.) An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society. HSK Volume 3.1. Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter. 67-75.
He has also authored other journal articles, book chapters, and some reviews in the area of sociolinguistics, contrastive linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and language teaching. His articles and book chapters have been published, for instance, with Mouton de Gruyter, John Benjamins, Blackwell, Pergamon, and G眉nter Narr.
Projects
Current research project
The language of peace and non-aggression