Jan Zalega
PhD Candidate
ORCID: 0009-0008-7331-9270
E-mail: jan.zalega@us.edu.pl
Jan Zalega is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the Doctoral School of the University of Silesia in Katowice. Holding an M.A. in Law, he is affiliated with the Institute of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities. His PhD project is entitled Concept Creep: Semantic Expansion and Emotions in Social Media Discourse. It examines the sociolinguistic implications of concept creep, the semantic extensions of medical terminology as used by social media users in non-prototypical contexts.
His research interests include:
- concept creep,
- Medical English,
- discourse analysis,
- languages for specific purposes,
- pragmatics,
- communication studies,
- corpus linguistics.
He serves as Vice-President of the NEOlinguists research group and is a member of the DIGESPEDI research team at the Faculty of Humanities in Sosnowiec. Additionally, he is a member of Koło Naukowe Doktorantów Językoznawstwa – Linguistics PhD Students’ Research Group. In 2025, he published the article “External Lexical Influences in the English Language from Antiquity to Modern Times” in Rozprawy Językoznawcze, a linguistic journal of Jan Długosz University in Częstochowa. In the same year, he presented a paper titlted Zewnętrzne wpływy leksykalne na język angielski [External lexical influences on English] at the XIII Międzynarodowa Konferencja Magistrantów [13th International MA Students’ Conference].
Recent activities
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Silesian Science Festival Katowice: Etymology workshop
At the 9th Silesian Science Festival Katowice, our team member Jan Zalega, together with Dr Joanna Ryszka and…
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New article on how English vocabulary was shaped by language contact
We are pleased to announce that our member, Jan Zalega, has published an article titled “External Lexical Influences…