Karolina Ryker

PhD Candidate

E-mail: karolina.ryker@us.edu.pl; karolina.ryker@uniroma1.it

I am a PhD candidate in the field of Linguistics at the University of Silesia in Katowice in cotutelle with Sapienza University of Rome. My PhD project focuses on genre analysis of online music reviews as well as exploring evaluative language used in the reviews. I have presented related findings at several international conferences, including the European Society for the Study of English 2024 Conference (ESSE 2024) in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the International Congress of Linguists 2024 in Poznań, Poland. My research interests stemming from the PhD project include genre analysis, discourse analysis, corpus linguistics, and evaluative language.

Areas of interest and research activity

genre analysis
digital genres
critical genre analysis
public vs. private intentions in genres
music-related discourse on the internet, in particular online music reviews
evaluative language in discourse related to assessment, opinions and authority
explicit and implicit evaluation in discourse
lexical creativity
qualitative analysis
contrastive linguistics
translation studies
corpus linguistics

Publications

Ryker, K. M. (2025). Professional vs. consumer discourse communities: Comparative genre analysis of online music reviews. ELAD-SILDA Études de Linguistique et d’Analyse des Discours – Studies in Linguistics and Discourse Analysis, (12), 37–77. https://doi.org/10.35562/elad-silda.1757

Ryker, K. M. (2024). Lexical creativity in online music reviews: A corpus study of hyphenated neologistic compounds. Półrocznik Językoznawczy Tertium. Tertium Linguistic Journal, 9(2), 198–223. https://doi.org/10.7592/Tertium.2024.9.2.277

Ryker, K. M. (2024). Overcoming challenges posed by intertextuality: Translation strategies employed in Polish and German translations of Agatha Christie’s novel titles. Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature, (5), 91–110. https://doi.org/10.34739/fci.2024.05.08

Conferences

Ryker, K. M. (2025, September 24–26). Methodological considerations in corpus-based digital genre research: The case of the online music review. [Conference presentation]. “Applied Linguistics in the Face of the Challenges of a Changing World”, Institute of Applied Linguistics, Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.

Ryker, K. M. (2025, March 24–26). How do critics express their opinions in online music reviews? An analysis of evaluative language in online album reviews. [Conference presentation]. “Contacts & Contrasts 2025: Opinions in Language, Media & Education”, The Department of Language and Communication of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Applied Sciences in Konin, Poland (online).

Ryker, K. M. (2024, September 8–14). Corpus-based genre analysis of online music reviews: Exploring the rhetorical structure. [Conference presentation]. “21st International Congress of Linguists (ICL 2024)”, Comité International Permanent des Linguistes (CIPL), Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznań, Poland.

Ryker, K. M. (2024, August 26–30). Professional vs. consumer discourse communities: Comparative genre analysis of online music reviews. [Conference presentation]. “The European Society for the Study of English 2024 Conference (17th ESSE Conference)”, University of Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland.

Ryker, K. M. (2024, March 13–15). Neologistic compounds in online music reviews. [Conference presentation]. “Language of the Third Millennium XIII: Language in the Face of Technology”, Cracow Tertium Society for the Promotion of Language Studies, Cracow, Poland.

Ryker, K. M. (2023, December 7–8). Structural and semantic analysis of medical terminology based on the ER TV series. [Conference presentation]. “Language Research at the Crossroads of Disciplines: The 6th Białystok-Kyiv Conference on Theoretical and Applied Linguistics (6th TALC conference)”, University of Białystok, Poland.

Ryker, K. M. (2023, November 30–December 2). Modern RP in the Routledge Pronunciation Dictionary of Current English. [Conference presentation]. “Accents 2023. Accent perception and production: 16th International Conference on Native and Non-Native Accents of English”, Department of English Language and Applied Linguistics, University of Łódź, Poland.

Ryker, K. M. (2023, November 23–24). Overcoming challenges posed by intertextuality: Translation strategies employed in Polish and German translations of Agatha Christie’s novel titles. [Conference presentation]. “8th Annual Siedlce Forum for Contemporary Issues in Language and Literature: ‘Hidden’ meanings across the fields of literature, linguistics and culture”, Siedlce University of Natural Sciences and Humanities, Institute of Linguistics and Literary Studies and University of the Balearic Islands, Faculty of Philosophy and Art (online).