Biography

I hold a PhD in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Sheffield, an MA in Historical Language Studies, and a BA in English Language and Linguistics from the University of Rzeszów. I also hold a BSc in Management and Marketing and a MSc in Finance Management from Rzeszów University of Technology.

Prior to joining the University of Sussex in 2011, I worked at the University of Leeds, University of Sheffield, and Sheffield Hallam University. I was also involved in teaching at the A-Level and EFL teaching.

From January 2013 I will join the new editorial team of English Today (Cambridge University Press) as an Assistant Editor. Between 2006–2009 I was an Editorial Assistant for Cognitive Linguistics (de Gruter Mouton).

Role

Lecturer in English Language and Linguistics

Study Abroad Advisor for the School of English

Admissions Tutor for English Language and English Language and Literature programmes (with Melanie Green and Lynne Murphy)

Responsible for organising ROLLS research seminars

**Please note that I work a four-day week (flexitime) schedule.  I am not on campus on Mondays** 

My research interests lie within the overlapping areas of sociolinguistics, history of English, and cognitive semantics. I have recently been involved in developing methods for tracing and analysing semantic variation and change of evaluative adjectives. I am also interested in corpus research and exploring the role of perceptions and attitudes in language. With regards to my supervision, I welcome students keen to explore any aspect of language variation and change.

Publications:

Robinson, Justyna A. and Monika Reif (eds.) (in preparation) Bilingualism: Cultural and Social Perspectives.

Glynn, Dylan & Justyna A. Robinson (eds.) (submitted) Polysemy and synonymy: Corpus Methods and Applications in Cognitive Semantics. Human Cognitive Processes. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Robinson, Justyna A. (submitted, accepted) ‘Quantifying polysemy in cognitive sociolinguistics.’ In Dylan Glynn & Justyna A. Robinson (eds.) Empirical Approaches to Polysemy and Synonymy.  Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Robinson, Justyna A. (2012). A gay paper: Why should sociolinguistics bother with semantics? English Today, 112 (28), 4.

Pütz, Martin, Justyna A. Robinson & Monika Reif (eds.) (2012) Cognitive Sociolinguistics: Social and Cultural Variation in Cognition and Language Use. Special issue of Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10(2).

Reif, Monika, Justyna A. Robinson & Martin Pütz (eds.) (2012). Variation in Language and Language Use: Linguistic, Socio-Cultural and Cognitive Perspectives. Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft/ Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang.

Allan, Kathryn and Justyna A. Robinson (eds.) (2012) Current Methods in Historical Semantics. Topics in English Linguistics 73. Berlin/ Boston: de Gruyter Mouton. Table of contents available here: http://www.degruyter.com/view/books/9783110252903/9783110252903.vii/9783110252903.vii.xml

Robinson, Justyna A. (2012) ‘A sociolinguistic approach to semantic change.’ In Kathryn Allan and Justyna A. Robinson (eds.), Current Methods in Historical Semantics,  Berlin/ Boston: de Gruyter Mouton, pp.199–230.

Pütz, Martin, Justyna A. Robinson & Monika Reif (2012) ‘The emergence of Cognitive Sociolinguistics: An introduction.’ Annual Review of Cognitive Linguistics 10(2), 241–263.

Reif, M., Pütz, Monika Reif & Justyna A. Robinson (2012) ‘Variation in language and language use: An introduction’.  In Reif, Monika, Justyna A. Robinson & Martin Pütz (eds.) Variation in Language and Language Use: Linguistic, Socio-Cultural and Cognitive Perspectives.  Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft/ Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture. Frankfurt/M.: Peter Lang, pp.2–15.

Robinson, Justyna. A. (2010). ‘Awesome insights into semantic variation’. In Dirk Geeraerts, G. Kristiansen & Yves Piersman (eds.), Advances in Cognitive Sociolinguistics. Berlin/New York: de Gruyter Mouton, 85–109.

My unpuplished PhD thesis ‘Semantic variation and change in present-day English’ (2010) can be accessed here http://etheses.whiterose.ac.uk/2232/

Courses I am currently teaching:

Autumn 2012–13:

Q3030 Approaches to Meaning (1^st Year; with Lynne Murphy)

Q1029 Approaches to Meaning in English (1^st Year)

Q1077 History of English I (2^nd Year; with Gabriel Ozon)

Q3150 Translating Cultures (2^nd Year; team-taught module)

Spring 2012–13:

Q1076 Investigating Language in Context (1^st Year; with Lynne Murphy)

Q1081 Variation in English II: Regional  (2^nd Year) 

Q1080 History of English II (2^nd Year; with Lynne Cahill) 

Q3158 Language and Gender (3^rd Year; with Gabriel Ozon)

Q1013 Research Project (3^rd Year)

Other courses I taught at Sussex:

Cognitive Linguistics (3^rd Year)

Language Variation (MA)

Robinson, Justyna (2012) A gay paper: why should sociolinguistics bother with semantics? English Today, 28 (4). pp. 38-54. ISSN 0266-0784

Robinson, Justyna (2012) Current methods in historical semantics. Topics in English linguistics, 73 . De Gruyter Mouton, Berlin/Boston. ISBN 9783110252880

Pütz, Martin, Robinson, Justyna A and Reif, Monika (2012) The emergence of cognitive sociolinguistics: an introduction. Review of Cognitive Linguistics, 10 (2). pp. 241-263. ISSN 1877-9751

Dylan, Glynn and Robinson, Justyna, eds. (2012) Polysemy and synonymy: corpus methods and applications in cognitive semantics. Human cognitive processes . John Benjamins Publishing, Amsterdam. (Submitted)

Robinson, Justyna (2012) Quantifying polysemy in cognitive sociolinguistics. In: Polysemy and synonymy: corpus methods and applications in cognitive semantics. Human cognitive processing . John Benjamins, Amsterdam. (Submitted)

Pütz, Martin, Robinson, Justyna and Reif, Monika (2012) Special Issue: Cognitive sociolinguistics: social and cultural variation in cognition and language use. Review of cognitive linguistics, 10 (2). John Benjamins, Amsterdam. ISBN 1877-9751

Reif, Monika, Robinson, Justyna and Putz, Martin (2012) Variation in language and language use: an introduction. In: Variation in language and language use: linguistic, socio-cultural and cognitive perspectives. Duisburger Arbeiten zur Sprach- und Kulturwissenschaft/ Duisburg Papers on Research in Language and Culture . Peter Lang, Frankfurt/M., pp. 2-15.

Pütz, Martin, Robinson, Justyna and Reif, Monika (2012) Variation in language and language use: sociolinguistic, socio-cultural and cognitive perspectives. DASK . Peter Lang, Frankfurt/M..

Robinson, Justyna (2012) A sociolinguistic perspective on semantic change. In: Current Methods in Historical Semantics. Topics in English Linguistics (73). de Gruyter Mouton, Berlin/Boston, pp. 199-230. ISBN 9783110252903

Robinson, Justyna A (2010) 'Awesome' insights into semantic variation. In: Advances in cognitive sociolinguistics. Cognitive Linguistics Research (45). de Gruyter Mouton, Berlin/New York, pp. 85-109. ISBN 9783110226454