Natalia Długosz (born 1978) is a Polish linguist, Slavist and university professor at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. She specialises in South Slavic languages (Bulgarian, Croatian, Macedonian) and selected problems of cognitive linguistics. In addition, she works as a sworn translator of Bulgarian and is involved in the popularisation of Silesian culture.
Life and career She studied Bulgarian philology and also Croatian and Serbian philology at Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań. In 2007 she defended her doctoral thesis entitled Budowa słowotwórcza rzeczownikowych formacji deminutywnych w języku polskim i w języku bułgarskim written under the supervision of Tadeusz Lewaszkiewicz (in 2009 it came out as a book publication under the title Słowotwórstwo polskich i bułgarskich deminutywów rzeczownikowych, literally: Word formation of Polish and Bulgarian noun diminutives). In 2018, she habilitated on the basis of her book entitled O znakach ubezwłasnowolnionych, czyli o nowych polskich i bułgarskich compositach bezafiksalnych w medialnym discursie publicystycznym, literally: On the incapacitated signs, i.e. on the new Polish and Bulgarian non-affixal compounds in media journalistic discourse. She is also a graduate of psychology in management at Wrocław University of Economics and completed the School of Academic Tutors at Collegium Wratislaviense. She was employed as an assistant professor and later as a university professor at the Institute of Slavonic Philology in the Faculty of Polish and Classical Philology at Adam Mickiewicz University. She is a member of the Slavonic Commission of the Poznań branch of the Polish Academy of Sciences and a member of the Council of Disciplines of Linguistics and Literary Studies at Adam Mickiewicz University. She is also a member of the International Sociolinguistic Society "Acad. Mihail Videnov". She has collaborated with, among others, the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, the Prague School of Creative Communication and the universities of St Andrews and Kansas. In 2017, she signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins. In total, she has published dozens of books, academic articles, chapters in monographs and dictionary entries on Slavic topics. In them, she has mainly dealt with the issues of Polish-Bulgarian confrontational word formation and cognitive-communicative description of the meaning of new lexical units, as well as with selected elements of the Slavic linguistic worldview (the opposition self/non-self, the image of the family, the concept of Europe in Bulgarian culture), legal terminology in translation and Slavic minority languages, in particular Gorani. In 2014, she received an award from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Bulgaria for her contribution to the development of Bulgarian-Polish cultural relations and the popularisation of Bulgarian culture. In addition, she has been working as a sworn translator of Bulgarian since 2012. She lives in Kotórz Mały, where, together with her husband Piotr, she runs the Silesia Progress publishing house involved in the promotion of Silesian culture and language. In 2022, she was awarded the ‘Genius Loci - Faithful Guardian of the Silesian Land’ award for this activity. She is also a member of the programme board of the publishing series Canon Silesiae – Ślōnskŏ Bibliŏtyka. She publishes popular texts on the regional portal on Silesian topics wachtyrz.eu.
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