IFA Reading Groups :: Koło Naukowe Anglistów IFA
Reading group: Syn&Sin
Webleader: Bartosz Wiland (bartek@ifa.amu.edu.pl)
The syntax reading group is a series of monthly meetings where faculty and students present their completed or ongoing work. If you would like to present at Syn & Sin, contact the webleader.
Reading Group: Translation
Webleader: Agnieszka Chmiel (magnes@ifa.amu.edu.pl)
Meetings are organised by the Department of Translation Studies. They create an opportunity for students and IFA staff members to discuss various aspects of Translation Studies, Interpreting Studies, audio-visual translation and community interpreting. Guest speakers are invited to each meeting. They include both IFA students and staff members, as well as external guests (representing various universities and organisations, such as the International Association of Translation and Intercultural Studies and the EU Directorate General for Interpretation). Presentations are followed by a Q&A session and discussion.
Reading Group: Dutch Philology
Webleader: Urszula Topolska (topolska@ifa.amu.edu.pl)
The main objective of the Dutch Philology Study Circle is to enhance cultural awareness regarding the Low Countries among our students and everyone who is interested. We want to broaden our knowledge of the customs and traditions shared across the Dutch-speaking communities. Furthermore, we plan to inspire our fellow students to dwell upon the cultural aspects of the Low Countries by providing them with information about events related to Belgium and Holland and organizing activities such as watching movies, reading poetry, or visiting art exhibitions.
Głównym celem Koła Naukowego Studentów Niderlandystyki jest szerzenie wiedzy o kulturze Niderlandów wśród naszych studentów i innych zainteresowanych. Chcemy poszerzać wiedzę o zwyczajach i tradycjach występujących w krajach niderlandzkojęzycznych. Planujemy zainspirować innych studentów do włączenia się w poznawanie aspektów kultury Niderlandów, dostarczając im informacji o wydarzeniach związanych z Belgią i Holandią oraz organizując zajęcia takie, jak oglądanie filmów, czytanie poezji czy odwiedzanie wystaw dzieł sztuki.
Reading Group: Psycholinguistcs Club
Webleader: Agnieszka Kujałowicz akujal@ifa.amu.edu.pl
PSYCHOL is a club for everybody interested in issues related to psycholinguistc and neurolinguistic aspects of language processing. Some of the topics discussed so far included: the structure of the bilingual and multilingual mental lexicon, the processing of language in clinically impaired populations (in autistic individuals and aphasic patients), the neurological underpinnings of bilingualism, as well as various methodologies of psycholinguistic and neurolinguistic experimentation. Club's meetings have featured presentations by members of the group, discussions and debates in a friendly atmosphere. They have provided opportunities to report on experiments, suggest new research proposals or simply exchange ideas and opinions among people who share an interest in language acquisition and processing. In the meetings to come we encourage student presentations and we would like to broaden the scope of issues addressed so as to include e.g. psycholinguistic aspects of interpreting and translation, metalinguistic awareness, effects of bilingualism on L1, processing of figurative language or task switching in bilingual speakers.
Reading Group: Phon&Phon
Webleader: Monika Połczyńska (plmonik@ifa.amu.edu.pl)
www: http://ifa.amu.edu.pl/fa/Phon_Phon
Boasting a long tradition at IFA (going back to the late 1980s), Phon&Phon is the phonology section of Koło Naukowe Anglistów, organised by the Department of Contemporary English Language. The meetings encompass a wide range of topics within broadly construed phonetics and phonology. Researchers and students (mainly Ph.D and M.A) from the School of English, as well as external guests, present their current research. Each presentation is approximately one hour long, followed by a discussion providing speakers with useful feedback. Occasionally, Phon&Phon meetings take the form of poster sessions presenting posters prepared by our colleagues and accepted/presented at international linguistic conferences. Phon&Phon is supervised by prof. Katarzyna Dziubalska-Kołaczyk and dr Monika Połczyńska (who is responsible for posting news and announcements concerning the meetings). Active participation in the meetings constitutes a very important step towards obtaining a Ph.D. scholarship at IFA.
Reading Group: Literary Meetings
Webleader: Katarzyna Bronk (kbronk@ifa.amu.edu.pl)
Lady Oisille, one of the characters from Marguerite de Navarre's The Heptamenron (deNavarre 2004: 66) said: "when you ask me to show you a pastime that is capable of delivering you from your boredom and your sorrow, you are asking me to do something that I find very difficult. All my life I have searched for a remedy, and I have found only one - (...) reading (...)". The members of the Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics share this opinion. That is why, each month, usually on a Thursday, we hold a literary meeting for everyone interested in English literature. The Department of English Literature and Literary Linguistics tries to cater for all literary tastes, particularly those of students of literature at IFA. The themes of our literary gatherings are not only beneficial and student-friendly but, most importantly, they are eclectic and up-to-date. Using various modes of presentation, from slide-shows to movie-sessions, we try to react to the latest events in the world of literature (e.g. Doris Lessing's Nobel Prize). Moreover, being aware of the multi-disciplinarity of literary studies, we also take a literary look at architecture, geography and history. Since our meetings are often bilingual, we cordially invite everyone to a democratic, supranational discussion. After all, literature knows no boundaries... .
Pani Oisille, jedna z bohaterek "Heptameronu" Marguerite de Navarre, powiedziała: "Gdy prosicie, bym pokazała wam sposób na uniknięcie nudy i smutku, prosicie mnie o coś naprawdę trudnego. Całe życie szukałam takiego lekarstwa i znalazłam tylko jedno: czytanie (...)" (de Navarre 2004: 66). Członkowie Zakładu Literatury Angielskiej i Lingwistyki Literackiej podzielają tę opinię. Dlatego też, każdego miesiąca, zazwyczaj w czwartek, organizujemy spotkania literackie (koła literackie) dla wszystkich zainteresowanych literaturą angielską. Zakład Literatury Angielskiej i Lingwistyki Literackiej stara się trafić we wszelkie gusta literackie, zwłaszcza te studentów literatury w IFA. Tematy naszych spotkań wybieramy nie tylko z uwagą na korzyść i "przyjazność" studenckim potrzebom, ale przede wszystkim staramy się być eklektyczni i "na czasie". Używając wielu metod prezentacji - przez pokazy multimedialne po seanse filmowe - reagujemy na najnowsze wydarzenia ze świata literatury (np.: nagroda Nobla dla Doris Lessing). Ponadto, będąc świadomymi interdyscyplinarności studiów nad literaturą, literacko spoglądamy również na architekturę, geografię i historię. Ponieważ bardzo często nasze spotkania są dwujęzyczne, serdecznie zapraszamy wszystkich do demokratycznej, ponadnarodowej dyskusji. Przecież literatura nie zna granic... .
Reading group: Lexicography and Lexicology
Webleader: Magdalena Perdek (mperdek@ifa.amu.edu.pl)
The main objective of the Lexicography and Lexicology Reading Group is to present and discuss various topics connected with the meaning of words as well as the presentation of the lexicon in monolingual and bilingual dictionaries. Some of the issues discussed during the monthly meetings of the group over the last couple of years included:
- semantic analysis of English prepositions
- definitions in monolingual pedagogical dictionaries of the English language with emphasis on verb coding
- usage labels in dictionaries
- metonymy and metaphor as applied in the definitions in monolingual dictionaries for learners of English
- comparison of definitions of abstract nouns in dictionaries for native speakers and learners of English
- corpus case studies
- socio-cognitive model of language
- bilingual dictionary in the translation practice
- electronic dictionaries and their role in acquiring vocabulary
The meetings are also an occasion to exchange news on recent conferences and workshops attended by members of the Department of Lexicography and Lexicology or IFA students. Anyone with an interesting presentation pertaining to lexicography or lexicology is welcome to submit their proposal to prof. Arleta Adamska-Sałaciak.
Reading Group: History of English Language
Webleader: Radosław Dylewski (dradek@ifa.amu.edu.pl)
The scholarly activities of the HEL Reading Group are oriented towards both IFA staff and students. They consist in:
(a) a weekly Reading Club, where recent publications in the field of English historical linguistics are analysed and critically discussed
(b) a bi-weekly Translation Circle (aimed predominantly at 3rd year B.A. and M.A. students), where original texts in Old and Middle English are translated and their linguistic features discussed
(c) a monthly Open Lecture, where members of the Department, students, and guests from outside IFA present their (usually work-in-progress) research
All meetings are open and everyone is welcome to join us.
Spotkania Sekcji Angielskiego Językoznawstwa Historycznego Koła Naukowego Anglistów są otwarte dla pracowników i studentów IFA. Obejmują one:
(a) Kącik Czytelniczy, poświęcony analizie i krytycznej dyskusji najnowszych publikacji z dziedziny angielskiego językoznawstwa historycznego (spotkania odbywają się raz w tygodniu)
(b) Koło Tłumaczeniowe (przeznaczone w pierwszym rzędzie dla studentów 3. roku studiów licencjackich i studiów magisterskich), poświęcone tłumaczeniu i analizie językoznawczej autentycznych tekstów staro- i średnioangielskich (spotkania odbywają się co dwa tygodnie)
(c) Wykład Otwarty, w ramach którego pracownicy Zakładu, studenci i zaproszeni goście spoza IFA przedstawiają rezultaty swoich badań historycznojęzykoznawczych (spotkania odbywają się raz w miesiącu).
Wszystkie spotkania mają charakter otwarty.
