Katarzyna Aleksiejuk

• PhD
• Faculty Member at National Coalition of Independent Scholars

With English functioning as a lingua franca in the academic world, many non-Anglophone scholars wish to publish their articles in English-medium international journals and seek professional assistance with translating them into English. Translators facing this task may encounter several issues stemming from cross-cultural differences in the style a...

Onomastics is an area of scholarly interest that has grown considerably in importance in recent years. Consequently, the 27th International Congress of Onomastic Sciences, held in 2021 in Kraków, Poland, gathered scholars from all over the world, active in all subfields of onomastic enquiry, as well as those exploring the areas bordering on other d...

This study analyses metadiscourse produced by Computer-mediated communication (CMC) participants on how they select and operate their usernames. The data comprises two answers to an open question in a survey conducted amongst participants of Чat30 (‘Chat30’), a website on the Russian-speaking Internet. These texts are approached as excerpts of comm...

The Internet represents an abundant source material for linguistic research, which continues to pose new challenges and opportunities on how language is used by its speakers. Its personal naming system, for example, has remained largely unexplored. Of the many facets of names on the Internet awaiting closer scrutiny, the phenomenon of usernames is...

Anthroponyms in virtual environments function as primary devices used to construct, validate, and assess identity. Studies of themed environments have revealed a connection between the context and identities, demonstrated in recurrent patterns in name selection. For example, Stommel (2007), in ' " Mein Nick bin ich! " Nicknames in a German Forum on...

As a relatively new phenomenon, 'Internet names' have not yet been exhaustively defined as a category. The present work addresses this issue through a comparative analysis of Internet names and three other anthroponomastic categories: pseudonyms, nicknames and given names. Each of the selected classes gives an opportunity to present different aspec...

In this article, I would like to suggest how usernames in the form of personal names might be read as a means of identity performance. The approach that I propose is to analyse them in terms of social distance and familiarity, similarly to address and reference terms used in off-line communication. By using the example of forum Посиделки (Gathering...