Research interests

• Sociolinguistics
• Cognitive linguistics
• General semantics
• Philosophy of language

Conference poster

• Karol Janicki (1997). How cognitive linguistics can contribute to peace education. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1996). On non-conventional metaphors as a source of conflict. (external link)

Academic book chapter

• Karol Janicki (2005). Julia Kristeva - science or charlatanry? A linguist's look at the first Holberg prize debate. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1997). An essay in critical discourse analysis:how can linguists contribute to alleviating conflicts. (external link)
• Karol Janicki; Adam Jaworski (1993). Language purism and propaganda:the first congress for Polish. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2017). Language and conflict: arguing for interdisciplinarity and usefulness. (external link)
• Karol Janicki; Adam Jaworski (1990). Against extensive sound symbolism: a short argument for prototype linguistics. Som evidence from Polish and English. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1998). 'Political correctness' - conflict-ridden language, language-ridden conflict, or both?. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1997). On unconventional metaphor as a source of misunderstanding. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1998). Searching for new disciplinarities and ways of practising linguistics. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1980). Contrastive sociolinguistics. Some methodological considerations. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2008). How cognitive linguists can help to solve political problems. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1995). Sociolinguistics in Poland: history and prospects. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1981). On the feasibility of pedagogical contrastive sociolinguistics. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1990). On the tenability of the notion 'pragmatic equivalence' in contrastive analysis. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1993). From small to large scale language conflicts: a philosophical perspective. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1986). Tertium comparationis in contrastive sociolinguistics. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1986). Accommodation in native-speaker - foreigner interaction. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2004). The sociology of language. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2003). The ever-stifling essentialism: language and conflict in Poland (1989-1993). (external link)

Conference lecture

• Karol Janicki (2006). Definitional problems? Can a non-essentialist help?. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2001). Much ado about little: linguistic aspects of the Clinton-Lewinsky scandal. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2006). The Standard English conflict. An applied cognitive sociolinguist's view. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2008). Lay people's language-related problems. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2016). Peaceful communication: a study in language awareness. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1999). Do we need to make things difficult to understand?. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2016). Linguistics and society: from conflict talk to peaceful communication. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2003). Interdisciplinarity in university education:putting philosophy and practice together. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2009). Lay people's views of communication. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2005). Applied sociolinguistics needs cognitive linguistics. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1997). Searching for new interdisciplinarities. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1999). Difficult language. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2000). Incomprehensible language. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2009). English as a global language. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2009). The discourse of befuddlement. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2007). Is Pluto a planet? Can a linguist have an answer?. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1995). PC - conflict-ridden language, language-ridden conflict, or both?. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1993). Sociolinguistics in Poland: a socio-political analysis. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1996). New disciplinarities. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2000). The use of incomprehensible language in the academic community. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2011). What language problems lay language users have. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2006). The precision myth in the legal field and a cognitive linguistics view of legal language. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2000). Narratives and essentialism. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2015). Non-aggressive language: a folk linguistic study. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2012). Language problems in industry and public institutions. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2003). British and American English. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2006). An unpopular view on definitions. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2001). Some theoretical and methodological questions on the use of difficult and incomprehensible language. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2008). Incomprehensible discourse as a lay language user’s problem. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2005). Linguistic reflection of objectivism in the legal profession. More ammunition for applied cognitive sociolinguistics. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2010). A plea for applied linguistics in deed. (external link)

Academic article

• Karol Janicki (1980). Deviance beyond grammar. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1984). Contrastive sociolinguistics reconsidered. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1994). Review of Gorlach, M. Englishes: Studies in varieties of English 1984 - 1988. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1979). Toward contrasting styles. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1989). A rebuttal of essentialist sociolinguistics. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2010). Lay people's language problems. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1990). A brief falsificationist look at contrastive sociolinguistics. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1991). Applying linguistics for peace education. (external link)
• Karol Janicki; Ernst Håkon Jahr (1995). The function of the standard variety: a contrastive study of Norwegian and Polish. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1987). On understanding misunderstanding: some further support for prototype linguistics. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2002). A hindrance to communication: the use of difficult and incomprehensible language. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2014). Connecting the linguist to industry and public institutions. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1990). Native speaker's perceptions of the foreigner's language: some preliminary findings. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2011). Communication and understanding. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2017). What is conflict? What is aggression? Are these challenging questions?. (external link)

Research report

• Karol Janicki (1989). International Journal of the Sociology of Language 78. (external link)

Lecture

• Karol Janicki (1999). Grammatical differences between British and American English. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2014). Non-typical behavior, language and conflict. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1997). Cognitive linguistics. (external link)

Academic literature review

• Karol Janicki (1978). Review of Roger Bell. Sociolinguistics. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1984). Review of H.H. Stern. Fundamental concepts of language teaching. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1980). Review of Henry Widdowson. Teaching language as communication. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1976). Review of Peter Trudgill. Sociolinguistics. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1975). Review of Windsor Lewis. A Concise Pronouncing Dictionary of British and American English. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1977). Review of Donald Bowen. Patterns of American English pronunciation. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1976). Review of John Schumann and Nancy Stenson (eds). New frontiers in second language learning. (external link)

Academic monograph

• Karol Janicki (2006). Language Misconceived. Arguing for Applied Cognitive Sociolinguistics. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1990). Toward non-essentialist sociolinguistics. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2010). Confusing discourse. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1999). Against essentialism: toward language awareness. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2015). Language and Conflict. Selected Issues. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (1985). The foreigner's language. A sociolinguistic perspective. (external link)
• Karol Janicki (2005). Standard British and American English. A brief overview. (external link)

Book anthology

• Karol Janicki (1979). Toward contrasting communicative competence. An analysis of style. (external link)

Popular science article

• Karol Janicki (2003). Hvor mange språk kan du?. (external link)

Media interview

• Karol Janicki (2013). Bare et ord?. (external link)

Media feature article

• Karol Janicki (1998). Review of Manfred Gorlach's "More Englishes: New studies in varieties of English 1988-1994". (external link)

Non-fiction monograph

• Karol Janicki (1995). Elements of British and American English. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Publications 

Selected books

• Language and conflict. Selected issues. 2015. London: Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/language-and-conflict-karol-janicki/?K=9781137381408
• Confusing discourse. 2010. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. http://www.palgrave.com/page/detail/confusing-discourse-karol-janicki/?K=9780230232600
• Language misconceived. Arguing for applied cognitive sociolinguistics. 2006. London: Routledge. http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780805856828/
• Standard British and American English. A brief overview. 2005. Copenhagen: Djøf Forlag. http://www.djoef-forlag.dk/da/Soegeresultat?q=Karol+Janicki
• Against essentialism: toward language awareness. 1999. München: Lincom Europa.
• Toward non-essentialist sociolinguistics. 1990. Berlin-New York: Mouton de Gruyter.
• Sociolinguistics in Poland (ed.). A guest edited issue of the International Journal of the Sociology of Language 78. 1989.
• The foreigner's language. A sociolinguistic perspective. 1985. Oxford: Pergamon Press.

Selected recent articles

• "Connecting the linguist to industry and public institutions". 2014. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Vol. 24. No. 1. 38-49.http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/ijal.12027/abstract
• "Communication and understanding”. 2011. Applied Folk Linguistics. AILA Review 24. Eds. Wilton, Antje and Martin Stegu . Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. 68-77. https://benjamins.com/#catalog/journals/aila.24/toc
• "Lay people's language problems". 2010. International Journal of Applied Linguistics. Vol. 20. No. 1. 73-94. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1473-4192.2009.00229.x/abstract
• “How cognitive linguists can help to solve political problems”. 2008. In: Gitte Kristiansen and René Dirven (eds.) Cognitive sociolinguistics: Language variation, cultural models, social systems. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 
• "The sociology of language”. 2004. In: Ammon, Ulrich, Dittmar, Norbert, Mattheier, Klaus and Peter Trudgill (eds.) An International Handbook of the Science of Language and Society. HSK Volume 3.1. Berlin-New York: Walter de Gruyter. 67-75.

He has also authored other journal articles, book chapters, and some reviews in the area of sociolinguistics, contrastive linguistics, cognitive linguistics, and language teaching. His articles and book chapters have been published, for instance, with Mouton de Gruyter, John Benjamins, Blackwell, Pergamon, and Günter Narr.

Current research project

The language of peace and non-aggression