Wojciech Guz

dr hab. Wojciech Guz

Wydział Nauk Humanistycznych - Instytut Językoznawstwa
Katedra Językoznawstwa Teoretycznego

Stanowisko: Adiunkt posiadający stopień naukowy dr hab.

2022

Prace magisterskie
  • Linguistic Politeness in Polish and English Translations of Korean Cultural Texts
  • British English and Its Varieties: A Study of the TV Drama Series "Peaky Blinders"
  • Translating Literature: A Study of J.R.R. Tolkien's "The Lord of the Rings" and Its Three Polish Translations
  • A Comparison of the Subjunctive Mood in English, Spanish and Polish
  • Wordplay in Translation: The Case of “Fawlty Towers”
  • A Study of Digital English: The Case of Online Message Board Users
  • French vs. English: Different Paths of Semantic Change

2020

Prace magisterskie
  • A Comparative Analysis of Polish and English Animal Idioms
  • The Influence of Twitch.tv on the Language of Its Users
  • The Non-expression of Meaning: Ellipsis and Other Types of Omission
  • Hedging in English: a Study of Selected Exponents
  • Eponyms: Morphological Derivatives Based on Proper Nouns
  • The Variation in the Use of Discourse Markers on the Basis of TED Talks

2017

Prace licencjackie
  • Descriptive vs prescriptive approaches to the grammar of English
  • A comparison of English and Polish on the basis of TV sports commentary
  • Categorization of English and German nominal suffixes
  • A comparison of English, Polish and Spanish diminutives.
  • Differences between English and Irish English on the basis of Roddy Doyle's fiction
  • An analysis of Polish-English False Friends in comparison with other European languages
  • Similarities and differences between English and German proverbs
  • Inflectional categories of Polish and English: tense, aspect, mood, and voice
  • A comparison of selected English,Russian, and Polish idioms

2013

Prace licencjackie
  • How not to say what you think: euphemisms, doublespeak and political correctness.
  • Digital English and its influence on Polish
  • Reduplication in English and Polish
  • Artificial vs natural languages. Comparison of English and Na'vi affixation and compounding.
  • Gradation of adverbs in Polish and English.
  • The rhetorical aspects of Tony Blair's speeches
  • English phonotactic constraints: nonsense words in nursery rhymes

2012

Prace licencjackie
  • Affixation in English slang
  • Clipping in English and Polish - a comparison
  • Types of adjective gradation in Polish and English
  • Names of occupations in British and American English
  • Neologisms and nonce-formations in Polish and English
  • The formation and productivity of splinters in English
  • Sound Symbolism in English
  • Women's vs Men's Language
  • Nadsat and Newspeak - a study of linguistic creativity in selected science fiction dystopian novels
  • The markers of habitual aspect in African American English and standard English

2011

Prace licencjackie
  • The Problems of Empty and Zero Morphs in English and Polish. A Comparative Study.
  • The affixal exponents of quality nouns in English.
  • Affixation and conversion in English causative verbs.
  • English Primary and Secondary Affixes and Related Issues.
  • The productivity of compounding and derivation in creating neologisms in scientific language.
  • Semantic shift: English adjectives denoting personality traits.
  • Phonotactic constraints on English word-formation.

2010

Prace licencjackie
  • The influence of feminist theories on the English language.
  • The Role and Use of Acronyms and Alphabetisms in Modern English.
  • A corpus-based analysis of selected English idioms.
  • Neologisms in the Political Language of the 4th RP.
  • English blends: a functional and structural view.
  • The productivity of negative prefixes in English adjectives.
  • The productivity of verb-deriving suffixes in English.
  • The productivity of the suffix - ness in non - deadjectival derivation.
  • Welsh Diminutives.