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Dr. Ewa Wojaczek is an academic teacher at the Institute of German Philology, Faculty of Languages, University of Gdańsk, where she has been employed since 1996. She currently coordinates the Erasmus exchange program for the 2024/25 academic year and supervises the Student Scientific Circle "Translator".
Her educational background includes a Master's degree in Scandinavian Studies (1992) and German Philology (1995) from the University of Gdańsk, and a PhD in Humanities (2004) with the dissertation "Ablative Präpositionalphrasen mit zusammengesetzten Präpositionen im Polnischen und ihre Entsprechungen im Deutschen und Schwedischen" supervised by Prof. Dr. hab. Marian Szczodrowski.
Research Interests:
- Polish-German-Swedish contrastive linguistics (prepositional phrases, lexicology, syntax, phraseology, idioms)
- Cultural linguistic differences and interference error analysis
- Methodology of written and oral translation
- Text linguistics and pragmalinguistics
- Theory of general and specialized translation
Her recent publications demonstrate a consistent focus on cross-linguistic analysis between Polish, German, and Swedish, with particular emphasis on grammatical structures, phraseological units, and translation challenges. She has increasingly explored digital communication phenomena like emoticons and language abbreviation in the context of globalization, while maintaining core research in cultural transfer through proverbs and idioms.
Scientific Awards:
- Bronze Medal for Long Service (Warsaw, 2010)
Dr. Wojaczek has received multiple research scholarships at universities in Sweden (Skärhamn 1988, Mora 1989, Västerhaninge 1990-1991), Austria (Vienna 1994), and Germany (Cologne 1994-1995, Bremen 1999, 2001). She has delivered guest lectures at institutions including the University of Cologne (2002, 2008, 2019), Joensuu (2009), Verona (2012), Vienna (2013), and Görlitz (2016). Her professional memberships span the Polish-German, Polish-Swedish, Polish-Danish, and Polish-Norwegian Friendship Societies (since 1990), Polish Translators Association (since 1992), Catholic Intellectual Club (since 1996), and Polish Association of Germanists (since 2005).
She maintains active involvement in academic community building through the Student Scientific Circle "Translator" and international exchange programs, while also working as a Polish-German-Swedish tourist guide for the Tri-City region since 2006.
