Małgorzata Suszczyńska
Senior Assistant Professor
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Office location: BTK building, Egyetem utca 2.
Office phone: +36-62-544542, +36-62-544259
- Degrees: PhD (The title of my PhD is “Rermedial work in Hungarian – a case study”)
- After graduating from Warsaw University in 1977, for five years I worked as an EFL teacher at one of Warsaw secondary schools and at the English Language College, a private language school in Warsaw. In 1982 I moved to Szeged, Hungary, and since 1985 I have been employed at the English Department, Szeged University, first as an assistant professor and since 1998 as a senior assistant professor. During the time of my university employment I have taught a wide range of subjects. Since 1992 I have began to focus on sociopragmatics, which is now the area of my research and instruction. Every year I supervise a number of BA and MA theses in that field and act as second reader of BA and MA theses in applied linguistics.
- Areas of competence: Linguistics: Sociopragmatics; Conversation analysis; Cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics; Linguistic (im)politeness across cultures; Linguistic (im)politeness and gender; Talk in institutional contexts.
- Research interests and work in progress: The main areas of my research interest are (im)politeness theories and research, the relationship between linguistic communication and cultural values and attitudes across cultures and differences in speech act realizations across languages and cultures. At present I am working on my PhD on the pragmatics of remedial work in Hungarian, participating as a researcher in the LINEE project (the workpackage on ‘Politics and Strategies of Identity in Multicultural European Cities’) and preparing a contribution for The Journal of EuroLinguistiX that on the occasion of the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue plans to collect components for a European “language guide”, which would demonstrate contrasts and similarities between European communicative styles.
- Publications: Download list of publications
- Theses topics offered:
- BA: Cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics; Linguistic (im)politeness: theory, cross-cultural research, gender; Conversation analysis; Talk in institutional contexts
- Titles:
- An analysis of Hungarian greetings and address forms in a small village community
- Attitudes to work-related values: Cultural preferences in Hungary and the USA
- Parental politeness in Hungarian family discourse: The usage of directives when regulating children’s behavior
- MA: Cross-cultural and intercultural pragmatics; Linguistic (im)politeness: theory, cross-cultural research, gender; Conversation analysis; Talk in institutional contexts
- Titles:
- Requests in English and Russian
- Facework (politeness) in the workplace
- Turn Organization of News Interviews: A Comparative Study of Hungarian and UK political news interviews
- Teaching this academic year:
- Winter semester
- Historical Linguistics and the History of the English Language (lecture)
- Conversation Analysis (seminar)
- Advanced Sociopragmatics (seminar)
- Cross-cultural pragmatics (seminar)
- Spring semester:
- Introduction to Sociopragmatics (lecture)
- Introduction to Sociopragmatics (seminar)
- Talk in Institutional Settings (seminar)
- Language, Politeness and Culture (seminar)
