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Associate Professor
Address: Universiteto 5, LT-01122 Vilnius, Skandinavistikos centras
Phone number: +370 5 268 7235 , +370 5 219 32 47.
Consultation hours: Appoint by e-mail
Fields of research
- Sociolinguistics
- Language Ideologies
- Language of spoken media
- Humour and irony
Courses taught
- Modern Danish Language, Culture and Society
- Modern Danish Language, Stylistics and Translation
- Modern Danish Irony
PUBLICATIONS
Articles
- “The role of linguists in Lithuanian metalinguistic discourse in modern Lithuania“, Journal of Multilingual and Multicultural Development, 2016, vol. 37, no. 3, 243–252.
- "Five Decades of Swearing on Air in Lithuania", In Marianne Rathje (ed.) Swearing in the Nordic Countries. Dansk Sprognævns konferenceserie 2, Copenhagen: Dansk Sprognævn, 2014, 83–98.
- “Konversacionalizacijos apraiškos Lietuvos viešajame diskurse: politiko Arūno Valinsko atvejis". Darbai ir dienos 62, 2014, 9–22.
- “Kai antenos prabyla kalbos klaidomis“, Naujasis židinys-Aidai 7, 2013, 482–487. “Lithuanian Language in Spoken Media: Plagued by Disease since 1990?" Naujausi kalbų ir kultūrų tyrimai. Sudarė V. Meiliūnaitė ir N. Morozova. Vilnius: Europos kalbų ir kultūrų dialogo tyrėjų asociacija, 2012, 239–248.
- “Metaforos, kuriomis gyvi esam, arba, kaip kalbama apie grėsmes kalbai“, Naujasis Židinys-Aidai 5, 2011, 308–314.
- “Tauta, gimusi iš filologijos, ir lingvistinio nacionalizmo fenomenas“, Darbai ir dienos 56, 2011, 143–152.
Translations
- Pia Tafdrup. Poetry. Translated from Danish by Giedrius Tamaševičius. – “Druskininkai Poetic Fall 2006“ („Poetinis Druskininkų ruduo 2006“). Vilnius: Vaga, 2006, 222–235.
- Søren Ulrik Thomsen. Poetry. Translated from Danish by Giedrius Tamaševičius. – “Druskininkai Poetic Fall 2011“ („Poetinis Druskininkų ruduo 2011“). Vilnius: Vaga, 2011, 290–301.
RESEARCH AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
PhD dissertation
- “Žiniasklaidos lyderių sociolingvistinė kompetencija visuomenės transformacijų kontekste”, Vilnius: The Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Vytautas Magnus University, 2012.
Conferences
- “Why they do not follow the prescriptions? On the use of non-standard and informal vocabulary in broadcast media“, 4th International Conference of Applied Linguistics “Languages and people: diversity and harmony“, Vilnius University, 28/9/2016.
- "The use of non-standard and informal lexis on air (a retrospective analysis of variation 1960-2010)“, Sociolinguistic Symposium 20, Jyväskylä university, Finnland, 15-18/6/2014.
- “The use of non-standard lexis on air: five decades of changes and challenges“, Digital Archives, Audiovisual Media and Cultural Memory Conference, University of Copenhagen, 14-15/11/2013.
- “The proliferation of standard language lexis on air – “mission completed?”, 7th International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE), Trondheim, Norway, 26-28/6/2013.
- “The ideological contexts of language standardization in the media“, Fourth Conference on Prescriptivism, Leiden university, Netherlands, 12-14/6/2013.
- “The Attitudes of the Recipients of Prescriptive Efforts: A Case of Two Public Discussions“, in: Pre-conference workshop Attitudes to Prescriptivism, Leiden university, Netherlands, 11/6/2013.
- “Swearing on air: use of swearwords in Lithuanian talk shows”, Symposium on Swearing in the Nordic Countries, Copenhagen, The Danish Language Council, Denmark, 06/12/2012.
- "TV celebrities as promoters of informal non-standard vocabulary in the public sphere“, Sociolinguistics Symposium 19: Language and the City, Freie Universität Berlin, August 21-24, 2012.
- “To sin against the soul of language and the spirit of nation: Some remarks on linguistic nationalism in Denmark and Lithuania“, Feast, Play and Puzzles in Scandinavian Studies, The 20th Anniversary Conference of the Centre of Scandinavian Studies, Vilnius University, 10-12/5/2012.
- “Devotion to the Native Tongue (A Short Story on the Linguistic Nationalism in Lithuania)“, 23th AABS Conference “The Global Baltics: The Next Twenty Years”, University of Illinois at Chicago, 26-28/4/2012.
- “Spoken media in Lithuania: the dissapearing domain of a standard variety?”, 4th International Language in the Media Conference. “Language(?) in the Media(?): Rethinking the Field”. University of Limerick (Ireland), 6-8/6/2011.