Prof. dr hab. Piotr Cap
Head of Department of Pragmatics
Institute of English
Interests
pragmatics; cognitive and socio-pragmatics; linguistic theory; Critical Discourse Analysis; political linguistics; media studies
Degrees
– Full Professor 10/2007; University of Łódź; field: English linguistics; dissertation Legitimization in Political Discourse: A Cross-Disciplinary Perspective on the Modern US War Rhetoric
– D.Litt. (Habilitation) 09/2003; University of Łódź; field: English linguistics; dissertation Analytic Determinism of the Study of Persuasive Discourse: Inductive and Deductive Processes
– Ph.D. 12/1996; University of Łódź; field: English linguistics; dissertation The Pragmatic Organization of the Inaugural Addresses of American Presidents 1933-93: Methodological and Critical Perspectives
– M.A. 02/1994; University of Łódź; field: English philology; thesis Metaphor as a Pragmatic Instrument of Power
Languages
Excellent – English, German, Czech
Fair – Russian, Spanish, Portuguese
Research grants and fellowships
12/2012-02/2013 – Boston University, Kosciuszko Foundation Fellowship
09/2005-01/2006 – Boston University, Fulbright Senior Research Grant
02/2003-01/2004 – University of Munich, Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Fellowship
07/2000-09/2000 – University of Birmingham, Stefan Batory Foundation Research Fellowship
08/1997-06/1998 – University of California at Berkeley, Fulbright Junior Research Grant
09/1994 – University of Utrecht, Tempus program grant
02/1993-06/1993 – University of Coimbra, Tempus program grant
03/1991-07/1991 – University of Wurzburg, Tempus program grant
Invited lectures and conference plenaries
05/2025 - Vilnius University, Lithuania
05/2024 - University of Latvia, Riga
03/2023 – Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Chambery, France
10/2022 – Sheikhbahaei University, Isfahan, Iran
07/2022 – University of Bergamo, Italy
04/2022 – University of Granada, Spain
01/2022 – Changzhou Institute of Technology, China
09/2021 – University of Southern Denmark, Odense, Denmark
09/2021 – University of Winterthur, Switzerland
05/2021 – Vienna University, Austria
11/2020 – Necmettin Erbakan Universitesi, Konya, Turkey
09/2019 – University of Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
09/2019 – Bar-Ilan University Tel-Aviv, Israel
03/2019 – Universite de Bretagne Occidentale in Brest, France
11/2018 – University of Ploiesti, Romania
07/2018 – University of Padua, Italy
05/2018 – Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan, Poland
04/2018 – Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Poland
04/2018 – University of Azores, Portugal
03/2018 – University of Isfahan, Iran
10/2017 – University of Nitra, Slovakia
04/2017 – University of Skopje, Macedonia
09/2016 – University of Brasov, Romania
05/2016 – University of Madeira, Portugal
03/2015 – University of Naples Federico II, Italy
11/2014 – University of Porto, Portugal
07/2014 – University of Indonesia, Jakarta
05/2014 – University of Valladolid, Spain
11/2013 – University of Economy in Bydgoszcz, Poland
09/2013 – 46th Meeting of Societas Linguistica Europaea in Split, Croatia
04/2013 – Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
11/2012 – University of Opole, Poland
06/2012 – University of Izmir, Turkey
05/2012 – University of Wuerzburg, Germany
04/2012 – University of La Laguna, Spain
09/2011 – University of Szczecin, Poland
05/2011 – World Cultural Forum in Suzhou, China
04/2011 – University of Malta, Malta
03/2011 – University of Nitra, Slovakia
02/2011 – University of Warsaw, Poland
09/2010 – 19th IATEFL Conference hosted by the University of Economy in Bydgoszcz, Poland
06/2010 – Baikal National University of Economics and Law, Russia
04/2010 – Guest lecture at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Pecs branch, Hungary
01/2010 – University of Stuttgart, Germany
06/2009 – Lodz Academy of International Studies, Poland
05/2009 – University of Alba Iulia, Romania
05/2009 – Alytus College, Lithuania
04/2009 – University of Dalarna, Sweden
09/2008 – University of Brno, Czech Republic
09/2008 – University of Warsaw, Poland
07/2008 – University of Hertfordshire, UK
05/2008 – University of Osijek, Croatia
05/2008 – Higher School of Philology, Wroclaw, Poland
05/2008 – Kafkas University of Kars, Turkey
04/2008 – University of Nitra, Slovakia
04/2008 – University of Vigo, Spain
06/2007 – Higher School of Foreign Languages, Poznań, Poland
05/2007 – Afyon Kocatepe University, Turkey
04/2007 – University of Munich, Germany
03/2007 – University of Nitra, Slovakia
12/2006 – University of Pune, India
09/2005 – University of Antwerp, Belgium
12/2004 – University of Wroclaw, Poland
04/2003-06/2003 – University of Munich, Germany
04/2002 – University of Limerick, Ireland
02/2002 – University of Leipzig, Germany
01/2002 – University of Santiago de Compostela, Spain
05/2001 – University of Coimbra, Portugal
12/2000 – University of Sunderland, UK
11/1999 – University of Tampere, Finland
02/1999 – University of Munich, Germany
Papers at academic conferences and congresses
1995-now – c. 120 papers at international conferences on pragmatics, discourse analysis, political linguistics and cognitive linguistics (Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Slovenia, Germany, Italy, Belgium, France, Spain, Greece, Canada, USA, India, Sweden, Croatia, Czech Republic, Romania, Cuba, Australia, Russia, United Kingdom, China, Turkey, Hungary, Portugal, Macedonia, Iran, Hong Kong, Israel, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Switzerland)
Conference organization
– 05/2002, University of Łódź: International Conference New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics: 1st Lodz Symposium
– 05/2004, University of Łódź: International Conference New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics: 2nd Lodz Symposium
– 05/2006, University of Łódź: International Conference New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics: 3rd Lodz Symposium
– 09/2007, Warsaw University: Political Linguistics Conference I (inauguration of PL conference series)
– 05/2008, University of Łódź: International Conference New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics: 4th Lodz Symposium
– 10/2008, PWSZ College in Wloclawek: The 1st International Conference on Discourse Approaches to Functional Linguistics, Translation and Foreign Language Teaching
– 05/2009, University of Łódź: International Conference Race, Religion, Representation
– 09/2009, University of Łódź: Political Linguistics Conference II
– 05/2010, University of Łódź: International Conference New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics: 5th Lodz Symposium
– 09/2010, University of Łódź: International Conference Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD) III (guest organization of biannual meeting of CADAAD)
– 03/2011, University of Łódź: International Young Scholars Conference on Discourse, Ideology and Society (scientific supervision)
– 05/2011, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań: International Workshop on Perspectives on Proximization: Recognizing Boundaries, Building Bridges (organized as part of Poznań Linguistic Meeting 2011)
– 10/2011, University of Łódź: International Conference Cognition, Conduct & Communication
– 05/2012, University of Łódź: International Conference New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics: 6th Lodz Symposium
– 09/2012, University of Łódź: PRAGMATYKA-2012: Interdyscyplinarne Podejścia do Pragmatyki, Retoryki i Argumentacji (co-organized with Department of English and General Linguistics, University of Łódź)
– 11/2013, University of Economy in Bydgoszcz: 1st Bydgoszcz Symposium on Discursive Constructions of Europe
– 05/2014, Warsaw University: Political Linguistics Conference III
– 04/2015, University of Łódź: International Conference New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics: 7th Lodz Symposium
– 05/2015, University of Łódź: Semiotica-2015 International Conference
– 06/2015, Higher School of Philology in Wroclaw: Ways to Religion (co-organized with host)
– 05/2017, University of Łódź: International Conference New Developments in Linguistic Pragmatics: 8th Lodz Symposium
– 07/2017, University of Ulster: International Panel on Conflict, Public Sphere and Mediated Experience: Perspectives on Proximization (organized as part of IPrA Congress 2017)
Honors and awards
2023 – University of Łódź Rector’s Prize for Research Achievements
2018 – University of Łódź Golden Badge
2018 – University of Łódź Rector’s Prize for Research Achievements
2016 – University of Łódź Rector’s Prize for Organizational Achievements
2014 – University of Łódź Rector’s Prize for Research Achievements
2012 – Kościuszko Foundation Fellowship
2012 – Honorary supervision of the Doctor Honoris Causa procedure of John R. Searle (University of California, Berkeley; h.c. conferred by the University of Łódź)
2011 – University of Łódź Rector’s Prize for Research Achievements
2008 – Polish Academy of Sciences Research Award
2005 – Fulbright Senior Research Grant
2003 – Alexander-von-Humboldt Research Fellowship Award
2002 – The Academy of Humanities and Economics in Łódź Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research Achievement
1999 – University of Łódź Rector’s Award for participation in activities of Socrates/Erasmus Commission
1999 – USIA Certificate of Participation in the Fulbright Program
1997 – University of Łódź Rector’s Award for Outstanding Ph.D. Thesis
1993 – University of Coimbra Rector’s Award for Outstanding Achievement
1992 – University of Łódź Rector’s Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Achievement
Memberships and affiliations
since 2011 – Committee for Philological Sciences, Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław Branch (Wrocław, Poland)
since 2009 – Central European Consortium in the Humanities (CinH) (President)
since 2009 – Societas Scientarium Lodziensis (Lodz, Poland)
since 2008 – Polish Pragmatics Association (President) (Lodz, Poland)
since 1999 – Societas Linguistica Europaea (Vienna, Austria)
since 1995 – International Pragmatics Association (Antwerp, Belgium)
Projects
2022- – European University of Post-Industrial Cities (UNIC), Leader of Workpackage 2 (Building European University)
2015-2016 – Participation in the FSS project Lingwistyka dla ekoodpowiedzialnego biznesu [Linguistics for eco-responsible business] (Co-ordinator: University of Lodz, Faculty of Philology)
2011-2013 – Participation in the LLP project DysTEFL (Co-ordinator: University of Lodz, Chair of Pragmatics)
2009- – Member of COST IS0703 project (European Research Network on Learning to Write Effectively)
2009- – Co-founder and member of the Working Group on Interdisciplinary Doctoral Studies at the University of Lodz
2007-2009 – Partnership in Socrates/Minerva QuADEM project (Quality Assessment of Digital Educational Materials; Co-ordinator: Antwerp University), co-author of the project publication (QuADEM Manual)
Editorial work
since 2004 – Founding Editor and (until 2009) Managing Editor of Lodz Papers in Pragmatics (Mouton de Gruyter)
since 2007 – Editorial board member of Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines (CADAAD, online)
since 2007 – Editorial board member of Discourse and Interaction (University of Brno)
since 2008 – Editorial board member of Journal of Linguistic and Intercultural Education (University of Alba Iulia)
since 2008 – Editorial board member of Topics in Linguistics (de Gruyter)
since 2008 – Reviewer for Language and Linguistics Compass (Blackwell)
since 2008 – Reviewer for Journal of Pragmatics (Elsevier Science)
since 2008 – Reviewer for Language in Society (Cambridge University Press)
since 2009 – Managing Editor of International Review of Pragmatics (Brill)
since 2009 – Advisory board member of Pragmatics. Quarterly Publication of the International Pragmatics Association (IPrA)
since 2009 – Editorial board member of the book series Advances in Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis (Cambridge Scholars Publishing)
since 2010 – Scientific board member of Research Papers in Philology (Polish Academy of Sciences, Wrocław Branch)
since 2010 – Reviewer for Journal of Business Communication (SAGE)
since 2011 – Advisory board member of Israeli Journal of Humor Research (Israeli Association for Humor Research)
since 2011 – Reviewer for Journal of Language and Politics (John Benjamins)
since 2011 – Advisory board member of the book series Discourse Approaches to Politics, Society and Culture (DAPSAC) (John Benjamins)
since 2011 – Editorial board member of LITU (Language Institute of Thammasat University) Journal (Bangkok, Thailand)
since 2011 – Advisory board member of Critical Discourse Studies (Routledge)
since 2012 – Editorial board member of Studies about Languages (Kaunas University of Technology)
since 2012 – Editorial board member of Discourse & Society (SAGE)
since 2013 – Advisory board member of Explorations in English Language and Linguistics (Osijek, Croatia & Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
since 2014 – Editorial board member of the book series Łódź Studies in Language (Peter Lang)
since 2014 – Advisory board member of Language and Cognitive Science (Xanadu Publishing London)
since 2014 – Editorial board member of Kwartalnik Neofilologiczny [Neophilological Quarterly] (Polish Academy of Sciences)
since 2018 – Co-editor for Theoretical Linguistics of Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium [Tertium Linguistic Journal] (Tertium)
since 2018 – Reviewer for Text & Talk (Mouton de Gruyter)
since 2023 – Editorial board member of the book series Pragmatics & Beyond New Series (P&BNS) (John Benjamins)
since 2023 – Editorial board member of Journal of Researches in Linguistics (University of Isfahan, Iran)
Postgraduate academic supervision, evaluation and refereeing services
– 12 Ph.Ds. supervised-completed (Marta Dynel; University of Łódź, 2004-2006; Aleksandra R. Knapik; Higher School of Philology in Wrocław, 2008-2011; Anna Ewa Wieczorek; University of Łódź, 2007-2011; Sylwia Wrześniewska; University of Łódź, 2007-2012; Anna Pałczyńska; University of Łódź, 2008-2013; Paulina Królikowska, Marta Lichy, Joanna Jabłońska, Julita Woźniak; University of Łódź, 2011-2015; Ahmed Abdelrehim; University of Łódź, 2013-2016; Jacek Łagun; UWM Olsztyn, 2013-2016; Li-Chi Lee Chen; University of Łódź, 2013-2016)
– 15 professorship applications reviewed (Gabriela Missikova, University of Nitra, 2008; Dennis Kurzon, University of Haifa, 2009; James Moir, University of Abertay Dundee, 2011; Piotr P. Chruszczewski, University of Wrocław, 2011 (Associate Professorship); Piotr P. Chruszczewski, University of Wrocław, 2012 (Full Professorship); Pilar Blitvich, University of North Carolina, Charlotte, 2012; Patricia Dunmire, Kent State University, Ohio, 2013; Michał Post, Higher School of Philology, Wrocław, 2013; Piotr Mamet, AJD Częstochowa, 2017; Zohar Livnat, Bar-Ilan University, 2018; Stefan Benus, University of Nitra, 2019; Przemysław Żywiczyński, UMK Toruń, 2019; Ewa Piechurska-Kuciel, University of Opole, 2021;
Magdalena Bartłomiejczyk, University of Silesia, Katowice, 2025; Joanna Rokita-Jaśków, KEN University, Kraków, 2025)
– Referee in 7 habilitation procedures (dr Marta Dynel, University of Łódź; dr Adam Wojtaszek, University of Silesia; dr Łukasz Grabowski, University of Opole; dr Janusz Badio, University of Łódź; dr Katarzyna Molek-Kozakowska, University of Opole; dr Iga Lehman, University of Social Sciences in Warsaw; dr Michał Wilczewski, University of Warsaw)
– 23 Ph.Ds. reviewed (Agnieszka Kaleta, Monika Kopytowska, Adam Bednarek, Hanna Mijas – University of Łódź, 2004-2012; Katarzyna Kosińska – University of Warsaw, 2008; Jacek Kołata – The Academy of Humanities and Economics in Łódź, 2010; Grzegorz Kowalski – University of Warsaw, 2010; Agata Klimczak – University of Warsaw, 2012; Grażyna Bednarek – Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznań, 2012; Samuel Bennett – Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznań, 2015; Marcin Buczek – University of Wrocław, 2015; Adam Świątek – Higher School of Philology, Wrocław, 2015; Maciej Buczowski – Adam Mickiewicz University at Poznań, 2015; Natalia Czajkowska – University of Wrocław, 2017; Natalia Bartoszek – UMK Toruń, 2019; Beata Mazurek-Przybylska – Higher School of Philology, Wrocław, 2019; Anna Lisiecka – Wrocław School of Banking, 2021; Paweł Giwojno – University of Wrocław, 2021; Marta Strukowska – University of Wrocław, 2022; Małgorzata Waśniewska – University of Warsaw, 2023; Jędrzej Olejniczak – University of Wrocław, 2023; Wojciech Błachnio – UMCS Lublin, 2023; Marcin Kosman – University of Warsaw, 2023)
– 1 review of the State Committee for Scientific Research (KBN) grant application (2009)
– Member of the Committee for Doctoral Procedures, University of Nitra, Slovakia (since 2010)
– 3 reviews of grant applications for the National Centre of Science and Technology, Republic of Kazakhstan (2015)
– External examiner on the Ph.D. examination board, University of Naples Federico II
– 6 reviews of grant applications for the National Centre of Science and Technology, Republic of Kazakhstan (2017)
Publications
Monographs
Edited volumes
Textbooks
Articles and book chapters
Translations
Review articles
Manuscript reviews
Newspaper articles and interviews
“Jak to się robi w USA – Retoryka antyterrorystyczna” [Anti-terrorist rhetoric ‘made in USA’]. In Gazeta Wyborcza, May 27, 2011.
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