Marta Dynel

Marta Dynel, Ph.D., is an assistant professor (adiunkt) in the Department of Pragmatics in the Institute of English at the University of Åò;dÅo, where she completed her M.A. thesis (2004) on the pragmatics of compliments and her doctoral thesis (2006) devoted to the pragmatics of conversational humour. She also graduated (2005) from the Institute of Applied Social Sciences (ISNS) within Interdepartmental Individual Humanities (MISH) at the University of Warsaw. She has published internationally in linguistic journals (e.g. Journal of Pragmatics) and volumes (e.g. in Peter Lang and Cambridge Scholars Publishing). Her research interests are focused primarily on pragmatic and cognitive studies on humour as well as the mechanisms of social influence and the rhetoric of advertising.