This year's edition of the Congress will begin with an opening lecture presented by Prof. Valentyna Ushchyna! In a speech titled “Can Language Become a Weapon? From Linguistic Inequality to Social Power”, she will present issues related to her scientific work, inspire the audience and open the proceedings, which will be held for three days in the halls of Collegium Broscianum.
Valentyna Ushchyna is a Professor at Lesya Ukrainka Volyn National University of Lutsk, Ukraine, where she is a Chair of the English Philology Department. Her area of specialization is sociolinguistics and her academic interests concern relations between language, risk, discourse and society. She is the author of various articles, monograph chapters and a book Stancetaking in the English Risk Discourse: A Sociocognitive Perspective (Vezha-Druk, 2015. In Ukrainian).
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