Dariusz Jan Skotarek, MA

• Position: PhD student
• Writing Research Group
• E-mail: d.skotarek@student.uw.edu.pl

Education:

• 2019, ILS UW – BA summa cum laude
  thesis „Zipf’s Law in natural and artificial languages”
  prepared under the supervision of dr hab. Janina Mołczanow
• 2021, ILS UW – MA summa cum laude
  thesis “A study of the editor’s role in the translation process on the example of the Polish translation of Yuri Slezkine’s ‘House of Government’” prepared under the supervision of dr Tomasz Konik
• Currently – University of Warsaw Doctoral School of Humanities; discipline: linguistics
  academic supervisor: dr hab. Piotr Twardzisz

Conference presentations:

• 13^th Annual Pronunciation in Second Language Learning and Teaching Conference
  Brock University, Canada 16-18.06.2022
• The 2020 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society
  Western Sydney University 13-15.12.2020
• 3^rd International Cyprus Undergraduate Linguistics Conference
  University of Cyprus 28-29.11.2020
• 11^th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics
  University of Athens 14.10.2020
• VI Ogólnopolska Konferencja Naukowa z cyklu „Polski System Medialny w Procesie Zmian”
  Jan Kochanowski University of Kielce 1.12.2020

Scientific interests:

• World Englishes
• Language evolution and change
• Computational linguistics, programming languages
• Phonetics and phonology
• Sociolinguistics
• Translation studies
• Theoretical linguistics

Publications:

• Skotarek, D. (2020) „Zipf’s law in Toki Pona”. Opublikowany w: A. Botinis (red.) Proceedings of 11th International Conference of Experimental Linguistics, ExLing Society, Ateny.
• Skotarek, D. (2021) „Nowy język komunikacji medialnej – analiza językoznawcza polskiego Twittera”. Opublikowany w monografii: J. Kępa-Metrak, P. Ciszek (red.) Polski system medialny w procesie zmian, Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jana Kochanowskiego.

Literary translations:

• Costica Bradatan – „Dying for Ideas: The Dangerous Lives of the Philosophers”
• Lincoln Paine – „The sea and civilization: a maritime history of the world”
• Yuri Slezkine – „The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution”