dr Jacek Woźny

adjunct professor, the Institute of English Studies of the University of Wrocław

email: jacek.wozny@uwr.edu.pl

ORCID ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0691-7090

Scopus Author ID: 56606105900

Office hours: room 113, appointments by email 

Selected publications:
Woźny, J. and Cz. Jasiukiewicz, T. Paszkiewicz. 1989. "Crossover from Kinetic to Diffusive Behaviour for a Class of Generalized Models of the Lorentz Gas". Physica A 158 (1989): 864
Woźny, J. 2010. "The prototype of the linguistic force Dynamics schema". Anglica Wratislaviensia 48: 135-148
Woźny, J. 2011. "Mathematical proof of the principle of cognitive economy". Cognition, Conduct And Communication. Dynel M. and J. Nijakowska (red.). Łódź : Premium Verbum: 71
Woźny, J. 2012. "Calculating the countability- a corpus based, mereological study of the count/mass distinction of a group of English nouns". Anglica Wratislaviensia, tom 50: 225-238
Woźny, J. 2013. "Force-motion schemas in metaphors of motion". Studia Linguistica Universitatis Iagellonicae Cracoviensis 130: 351-368
Woźny. J. 2014. "Comparing conceptual domains". Extension and its Limits. Drożdż, G.  and A. Łyda (eds.). Newcastle Upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing:108-125
Woźny, Jacek. 2014. “Levels of countability: A corpus based study”. In: Marek Kuźniak, Agnieszka Libura, Michał Szawerna (eds.) From Conceptual Metaphor Theory to Cognitive Ethnolinguistics: Patterns of Imagery in Language. Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang:129-140
Woźny, Jacek. 2014. "Conceptual models of physics in linguistic Force Dynamics". Linguistica Silesiana vol. 35: 327-340
Kuźniak, M. & J. Woźny. 2015. "Linguistic force dynamics and physics" .Warsaw Studies in English Language and Literature. Vol. 17.Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang:145-160
Woźny, Jacek. 2015. "Towards a method of cross-linguistic comparison of motion-emotion metaphors". Linguistica Silesiana vol. 36
Woźny, Jacek. 2015. "Towards experientially-based classification of motion situations". Within and beyond the Lexicogrammar Continuum. Amsterdam: John Benjamins
Woźny, Jacek. 2016. "Towards experientially-based classification of motion situations". Studies in Lexicogrammar. Amsterdam: John Benjamins: 211-228
Woźny, Jacek. 2016. "Force dynamics of intensive and intransitive complementation of the verb „to go”". Studia Neofilologiczne 12: 59-76.

Turner M., Steen, F., Woźny J., Cánovas C., P., Hougaard A., Joo J., Olza I., Pleshakova A., Ray S., Uhrig P., Valenzuela J. 2018. "Toward an Infrastructure for Data­driven Multimodal Communication Research". Linguistic Vanguard 4(1). Boston : Mouton de Gruyter 

Woźny, Jacek. 2018. How We Understand Mathematics - Conceptual Integration in the Language of Mathematical Description. New York: Springer 

Woźny, J., 2018. "The role of conceptual integration and simple dynamic scenarios in the meaning construction of the mapping in mathematics". Cognitive Studies | Études cognitives, 2018(18)

Woźny, J. 2019. Linguistic categorization versus mathematical set theories. Wrocław: Oficyna Wydawnicza Atut 

Woźny, J. 2024. “The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematical modeling”. In Mathematics for Social Sciences and Arts, Algebraic Modeling.  Mahouton Norbert Hounkonnou, Dragana Martinovic, Melanija Mitrović, Philippa Pattison (Eds.). New York: Springer

Selected conference papers:
"Mathematical proof of the principle of cognitive economy", Cognition Communication and Conduct 2011 , Łódź University

"Calculating the countability- a corpus based, mereological study of the count/mass distinction of a group of English nouns". Cognitive Linguistics 2012, Wrocław University

"A new description of force-dynamics". BeNeCla Conference 2012, University of Groningen
"A statistical method of comparing conceptual domains". LISLAC2 Conference 2013, University of Katowice
"Force dynamics and physics – a new outlook on force-dynamics". (coauthor: dr hab. prof. Marek Kuźniak). Cognitive Linguistics 2013. Warsaw University.
"Force dynamics of motion metaphors" LISLAC3 Conference 2014, University of Katowice
"Force dynamics of verb complementation". Cognitive Linguistics 2014. Jan Długosz Academy, Częstochowa

“The concept of continuity in the taxonomy of motion events". PALC Conference 2014. University of Łódź

“Towards a method of cross-linguistic comparison of motion-emotion metaphors”. PASE Conference 2015. University of Wroclaw

"Star Trek Teleportation - a critical outlook on Zlatev"s taxonomy of motion events", Cognitive Linguistics in Wrocław 2015, Wrocław University

"Mental patterns of parable in the narrative of mathematical set theory", Cognitive Linguistics in Wrocław 2016, Wrocław University

"Multimodal blending in meaning construction of Polish "chodzi o" and Czech "jde o"" (with Marek Kuźniak), ICMC Conference 2017, Osnabruck University

"Conceptual blending and identity in mathematics", Cognitive Linguistics in Wrocław 2017, Wrocław University

"Cognitive exploration of the group theory", Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2017, Rzeszów University 

 "Multi-modal mental space builders signalling humorous content" (with Agnieszka Libura and Maria Kmita), ICLC-14 2017, Tartu University.

"Uniqueness in language, thought and mathematics", Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2018, UAM 

"Where arithmetic comes from?", Cognitive Linguistics in the Year 2019, UwB.

Research interests:
cognitive exploration of mathematics, cognitive semantics, multimodal communication, linguistic categorization, computational linguistics, corpus linguistics,  translation studies, linguistic typology, mereology

Membership in professional associations:

Polish Cognitive Linguistics Association

Red Hen Lab