Dominik Gęgotek

PhD Candidate

Dominik Gęgotek is a Ph.D. student at the Doctoral School of University of Silesia in Katowice. His Ph.D. dissertation is entitled Hedging in Citizen Science discourse: Negotiating contributions to GitHub open-source projects. One of the aims of his project is the creation of a large corpus of citizen science online communication and a tool for corpus analysis in cooperation with Agnieszka Ziora, MA.

His research interests include:

pragmatics,
politeness and impoliteness strategies,
online communication discourse,
citizen science,
corpus linguistics.

He is a member of the NEOlinguists research club and the DIGESPEDI research team. He also took part in several scientific conferences including International Young Linguists’ Conference ATENA 2025, Oriental Meetings in Sosnowiec, and IX Konferencja Międzynarodowa Uczelni Lingwistyczno-Technicznej w Przasnyszu, presenting topics connected with hedging expressions and corpus analysis. Additionally, he has experience in software creation, programming, and computer science, as he graduated from technical secondary school and holds the title of an IT technician.

Publications

Ziora, A., & Gęgotek, D. (2025). Analysing Values and Emotions in the Face of Modern Changes – from Psychological Categorization Systems to Computational Linguistic Analysis. W E. Sternal, L. Kilewaja, J. Burzyńska-Sylwestrzak, & T. Fojt (Redaktorzy), Język wartości: wyzwania współczesnego świata (s. 102–124). Wydawnictwo Uczelni Lingwistyczno-Technicznej w Przasnyszu.

Conference presentations

Gęgotek D., & Ziora A. (2025, November 28-29). Nowoczesne narzędzia do analizy korpusowej – limitacje i możliwości [Modern tools for computational analysis – limitations and possibilities] [Conference presentation]. “Granice i przemiany: Inność, Doświadczenie, Innowacja w perspektywie humanistycznej,” Wydział Filologiczny Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, Łódź, Poland.

Gęgotek D., & Ziora, A. (2025, April 8). Values Presented in Mission Statements of Technological Companies Connected with Open Source Software [Conference presentation]. Atena 2025: Young Linguists’ Conference, Rzeszów, Poland.

Gęgotek D., & Ziora, A. (2025, March 24). Hedging in Multicultural Discourse Based on an Open Source Project – Zotero [Conference presentation]. OMIS – Oriental Meetings in Sosnowiec, Sosnowiec, Poland.

Ziora, A., & Gęgotek, D. (2024, December 7). Analysing values and emotions in the face of modern challenges – from psychological categorization systems to computational linguistic analysis [Conference presentation]. IX Konferencja Międzynarodowa Uczelni Lingwistyczno-Technicznej w Przasnyszu “Język wartości: wyzwania współczesnego świata,” Przasnysz, Poland.