Degrees and titles:
2020 – Post-doctoral degree (habilitacja) in English linguistics, Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Philology
2012 – PhD degree in English linguistics (with distinction), Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Philology
1999 – MA degree in English, Jagiellonian University, Institute of English Studies
Other diplomas:
2009 – Completion of one-year intensive translation and interpreting programme, Translation Studies Center, Sosnowiec
2007 – Completion of postgraduate studies in European Union Law, Jagiellonian University, Faculty of Law and Administration
Professional Experience
2021 – Jagiellonian University, Institute of English Studies, Associate Professor
2020 – Univerzita Pardubice, Fakulta filozofická, KAA, Docent
2014 – 2021 Jagiellonian University, Institute of English Studies, Assistant Professor
2012 – 2014 Jagiellonian University, Institute of English Studies, Senior Lecturer
2010 – 2012 Jagiellonian University, Institute of English Studies, Lecturer
2003 – 2010 Jagiellonian University, Teacher Training College, Lecturer
Lectures and seminars
Discourse Analysis
Pragmatics
Text Linguistics
Sociolinguistics
Research interests
legal discourse analysis; courtroom talk; expert discourse; science communication, stance and evaluation; pragmatic markers; multimodality; corpus-assisted discourse studies
Research papers
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. 2023. The whole truth? Hypothetical questions and the (de)construction of knowledge in expert witness cross-examination. Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 140 (1): 67–93.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. 2023. Retoryka i dyskurs sędziowski: o relacji koncesywności w uzasadnieniach wyroków. Język Polski 103 (1): 20–35.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. 2023. Responding to omicron: speaker commitment and legitimisation in COVID-related press conferences. Studies in Polish Linguistics 18 (1): 25–54.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. 2023. Closing Argument as Multimodal Oratory: Insights from the Chauvin Trial. Closing Argument as Multimodal Oratory: Insights from the Chauvin Trial. International Journal for the Semiotics of Law 36 (3): 1109–1145.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. 2022. Interacting with the expert witness: Courtroom epistemics under a discourse analyst’s lens. In Language as Evidence. Doing Forensic Linguistics, edited by V. Guillen-Nieto and D. Stein, 105–130. Palgrave Macmillan.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. 2022. “Evidentiality in US Supreme Court opinions: Focus on passive structures with say and tell.” In Law, Language and the Courtroom. Legal Linguistics and the Discourse of Judges, edited by S. Goźdź-Roszkowski and G. Pontrandolfo, 26–38. London/New York: Routledge.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. I’m thinking and you’re saying. Speaker stance and the progressive of mental verbs in courtroom talk. Text & Talk. 41(2): 239–260.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena and A. Tereszkiewicz, (eds). 2020. Languages in Contact and Contrast. A Festschrift for Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld on the occasion of her 70th birthday. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena and A. Tereszkiewicz (eds). 2020. Kontakty językowe. Księga jubileuszowa ofiarowana prof. Elżbiecie Mańczak-Wohlfeld z okazji 70. urodzin. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. 2020. “(I’m) just saying and (tak) tylko mówię: A parallel corpus study.” In Languages in Contact and Contrast. A Festschrift for Professor Elżbieta Mańczak-Wohlfeld on the occasion of her 70th birthday, edited by M. Szczyrbak and A. Tereszkiewicz. 427–445. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. “Verb patterns in trial discourse: The case of I think.” Discourse & Interaction 13, no. 2 (2020): 119–135.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena., Mazur, Z. (eds). 2019. New Perspectives in English and American Studies. Volume 2: Language. Kraków: Jagiellonian University Press.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. “But, you see, the problem is… Perception verbs in courtroom talk. Focus on you see.” Topics in Linguistics 20, no. 1 (2019): 24–40.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. “Epistemic stance in the Kavanaugh confirmation hearing: Focus on mental and communication verbs.” Discourse and Interaction 12, no. 2 (2019): 72–94.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. 2018. “Verba dicendi in courtroom interaction: Patterns with the progressive.” In Phraseology in Legal and Institutional Settings. A Corpus-Based Interdisciplinary Perspective, edited by S. Goźdź-Roszkowski and G. Pontrandolfo. 240–257. London/New York: Routledge.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. 2018. “’When you say over here, you mean…’ Reformulation strategies in confrontational institutional talk.” In Frameworks for Discursive Actions and Practices of the Law, edited by G. Tessuto, V. K. Bhatia and J. Engberg. 393–413. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. “Diminutivity and evaluation in courtroom interaction: Patterns with little (Part 1).” Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 135 (2018): 59–68.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. “Diminutivity and evaluation in courtroom interaction: Patterns with little (Part 2).” Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 135 (2018): 69–79.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. “Knowing, Unknowing or Believing? Epistemic Stance in Donald Tusk’s Testimony in the Trial on the Polish Air Force Tu-154 Air Crash.” Studies in Polish Linguistics 13, no. 4 (2018): 209–236.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. 2017. “Modal adverbs of certainty in EU legal discourse: A parallel corpus approach. In Contrastive Analysis of Discourse-pragmatic Aspects of Linguistic Genres. Yearbook of Corpus Linguistics and Pragmatics, edited by K. Aijmer and D. Lewis. 91–115. Springer International Publishing.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. 2017. “Pragmatics of “saying” routines in police interviews.” In Olomouc Modern Language Series. Language Use and Linguistic Structure (Vol. 5). Proceedings of the Olomouc Linguistics Colloquium 2016, edited by J. Emonds and M. Janebová. 461–472. Olomouc: Palacký University.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. “Modal adverbs of certainty in the rhetoric of Advocates General: A dialogic view.” Topics in Linguistics 18, no. 1 (2017): 48–58.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. “’Well, don’t these two look dapper!’ Epistemological positioning on celebrity gossip websites.” Studies in Polish Linguistics 11, no. 4 (2016): 209–234.
Szczyrbak, Magdalena. “Say and stancetaking in courtroom talk: A corpus-assisted study.” Corpora 11, no. 2 (2016): 143–168.
Conference presentations
Participation in more than 30 international conferences
Study and lecture visits
Erasmus+ visits:
University of Minho, Braga, Portugal, 2014
Heinrich Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany, 2015
Technical University of Dortmund, Dortmund, Germany, 2015
Johannes Gutenberg University, Mainz, Germany, 2016
University of Macerata, Macerata, Italy, 2018
Bologna University, Bologna, Italy, 2019
Internships:
University of Alicante, Alicante, Spain, 2019
Projects and grants
Other professional activities
President of the International Language and Law Association (ILLA)
Member of the American Pragmatics Association
Member of the Polish Linguistic Society
Member of the Research Centre in Psychology of Communication and Text Semiotics “János Sándor Petöfi” at the University of Macerata
Reviewer for international scholarly journals
Certified English–Polish translator and court interpreter
