C.V.
Personal details:
Name: Bartosz Kuczyński
Birth year: 1975
Email: bartek@doktorant.net

Professional experience:
1997 one month teaching practice at a secondary school in Gorzów
since 1997 various part-time jobs at private language schools and giving private classes of English
since 1999 teaching at the Teacher Training College of English in Gorzów Wlkp., courses including:
- practical English language courses, including grammar, speaking, writing
- British literature
- history of the English language
- introduction to linguistics
- practical phonetics (British)
- cultural studies
- history of Great Britain and the United States
2000 half a year conscript service in the Military Forces of Poland
2001-2002 teaching English at the Higher School of Business in Gorzów Wlkp.
since 1999 freelance translations, mainly technical language.
2003 co-operation with the local edition of the Gazeta Wyborcza newspaper - weekly publishing of English language exercises.
2004-2005 co-operation with Bauer publishing house - as an author of articles for Matura (A-levels) exams special edition magazines
2004 obtaining of the official Matura Examiner Certificate
2005 attending the Matura exams as a certified examiner
2005/6 co-operation with Axel Springer publishing house - as an author of articles for Matura exams special edition magazines
since 2006 teaching at the University of Poznan - Institute of Applied Linguistics

Academic experience:
06.2003 participation in the "Language and Culture" conference, organised by the Polish Philology Institute of the Wrocław University
04.2004 participation with lecture in the international "Language @nd multimedia" conference, organised by the Journalism and Social Communication Institute of the Lower-Silesian School of Higher Education in Wrocław
06.2005 participation with lecture in the international "Polish and east-slavic literary and linguistic contacts" conference, organised by the Univeristy of Olsztyn
11.2005 participation with lecture in the international "Culture-generative function of games" conference, organised by the Institute of Applied Linguistics of the Poznań University

Scholarships:
09.2004 one-week Socrates-Erasmus scholarship at the Univeristy of Bari

Publications:
"Comparison of the usage of expressive speech acts in IRC conversations in English and Polish", Agnieszka Dytman-Stasieńko, Jan Stasieńko [ed.], Language and multimedia, Wrocław, 2005

Papers in print:
"The influence of the English language on the vocabulary and orthography of the IRC conversation in Polish and Russian", the international "Polish and east-slavic literary and linguistic contacts" conference, June 2005, Olsztyn
"Play of words and images in communist propaganda", the international "Culture-generative function of games" conference, November 2005, Poznań

Academic interests:
Contrastive linguistics, sociolinguistcs, cyberlinguistics, computational linguistics, artificial intelligence technology

Education:
1989-1993 Secondary school - English language profile class
1993-1994 Sociology at the University of Poznań
1994-1999 English philology at the University of Poznań
1998-1999 Chinese philology at the University of Poznań
2002-2004 Ph.D. study at the Philology Department of the University of Wrocław, specialisation - Polish language
since 2005 preparing the PhD dissertation, under the supervision of Prof. Andrzej Sitarski, on the subject "The influence of the English language on the Polish and Russian languages in Internet Relay Chat communication"