Stanisław Gozdz-Roszkowski is Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Specialised Languages and Intercultural Communication, University of Lodz (Poland), where he has been teaching various seminars in legal and corporate communication and legal discourse analysis. His research focuses on functional and corpus-based approaches to the study of judicial discourse across different languages and cultures. He has published widely in the area of variation in legal language, legal phraseology and communicating evaluative meanings in judicial opinions. He is currently researching evaluative language and legal argumentation in justifications of judicial decisions (US Supreme Court and the Polish Constitutional Tribunal).

legal and corporate discourse

legal argumentation and rhetoric

evaluation, stance and engagement in discourse communication

Corpus Linguistics and Genre Analysis