In the academic year 1945/46 the University had six faculties: Faculty of Pharmacy, Faculty of Medicine, Faculty of Humanities, Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences, Faculty of Law and Economics and Faculty of Dentistry. The University employed 530 staff and student enrollment was 7147, which made up 12,7% of the total student population in Poland.
Today, with over 40 000
students and 4 000 teaching and administrative staff, it is one of Poland’s
biggest universities, consisting of the following faculties: Biology and Environmental Protection, Economics and Sociology, Philology, Philosophy and History, Physics and Chemistry, Mathematics, Geographical Sciences, Educational Sciences, Law and Administration, International and Political Studies, and Management.
Sixteen degree programmes have received a Quality of Education Certificate granted by the State Accreditation Committee.
University of Lodz is a member of the European University Association (EUA), Association of European Schools of Planning (AESOP), Alliance of Universities for Democracy, and Grupo Compostela de Universidades. It participates in numerous international co-operation programmes, including Socrates/Erasmus, Tempus, Inco-Copernicus, ACE, Jean Monnet and CEEPUS.
DEPARTMENT OF ENGLISH LANGUAGE
Department of English Language is one of Lodz University’s largest and most active departments. Academic interests of its members are varied and include discourse analysis, pragmatics, corpus linguistics, lexicography, ESL methodology, and language and the law, though this list is by no means exhaustive. The department is headed by Professor Barbara Lewandowska-Tomaszczyk.
Since 1997 we have been hosting a biennial conference on “Practical Applications of Language Corpora” (PALC). The four PALC’s to date have all been very successful and it would probably be not unfounded to state that today PALC is among the most important international conferences devoted to corpus-based language studies. Mention must also be made of the quadrennial Lodz-Maastricht Duo Colloquium on translation studies, and the Symposium on Linguistic Pragmatics, which has now been held twice.
The Department is host to the PELCRA project, which is aimed at compilation of Polish and English modern language corpora for research and linguistic applications.
Apart from contributing to teaching and research within Lodz University's Institute of English Studies, we offer the MA in Computer-based English Language Studies (COBAL), a joint low-residency/distance programme run in conjunction with the Department of Linguistics and Modern English Language, Lancaster University.
Department of English Language has very strong academic links with numerous European and American universities. Among official co-operation agreements are those with Lancaster University, UK, University of Porto, Portugal, University of Tampere, Finland, and University of Toledo, USA.
The Department is in reception of a number of Polish government and EU research grants.
ORGANISING COMMITTEE
Dr Stanislaw Gozdz-Roszkowski received his MA and PhD in English Studies from the University of Lodz, where he is Adjunct Professor at present. His research interests are primarily in corpus-based analysis of texts, especially legal and business texts. His other academic interests include: written discourse analysis, genre analysis, corpus linguistics and its applications in translation studies and lexicography.
Dr Krzysztof Kredens received his MA in English Studies and PhD in English Linguistics from the University of Lodz. His academic interests include oral discourse analysis, sociolinguistics and social applications of linguistics as well as translation and interpreting. His main research area is that of language and the law. He is currently working on a project on the role of idiolectal variation in forensic authorship attribution.
Dr Iwona Witczak-Plisiecka received her MPhil in Linguistics from Trinity College, Dublin University, and her MA and PhD in English Studies from the University of Lodz, where she is Adjunct Professor at present. Her research interests are primarily in semantics and pragmatics of language, especially analysis of legal texts. Her other academic interests include: language varieties, corpus linguistics, intertextuality, lexicology and translation.
