BASIC INFORMATION
Professor
Address: Universiteto 5, LT-01513 Vilnius
Phone: +370 5 268 7228
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Office hours: contact by email
Research interests:
- Semantics
- Pragmatics
- Discourse analysis
- Corpus linguistics
- Contrastive analysis
- Computational linguistics
- Evidentiality
- Epistemic modalit
- Media discourse
- Cross-linguistic, cross-disciplinary and cross-generic studies of academic discourse
- EAP
- ESP
- Research publication and reviewing processes
- Research evaluation
- Effective scientific discourse
- Scademic identity
Courses taught:
- Effective scientific discourse
- World Englishes
- Contemporary Linguistics: Theories and Research Methods
- Insights into Academic Discourse
- Introduction to Corpus Linguistics
- BA thesis writing
- Methods of Scientific research
PUBLICATIONS
Vilnius University Publications Database
Monograph
- Šinkūnienė, Jolanta. 2014. Lietuviškojo humanitarinių ir socialinių mokslų diskurso ypatybės: Mokslo studija. Vilnius: VU leidykla. ISBN: 978-609-459-350-5. [Leidinio tekstas]
Co-edited issues of research journals
Petrauskaitė, R., Kulczycki, E. & Šinkūnienė, J. (Eds). 2020. Humanitarinių ir socialinių mokslų vertinimo iššūkiai. Challenging evaluation in the social sciences and humanities. Darbai ir Dienos nr. 73.
Co-edited volumes
- Van Olmen, D. & Šinkūnienė, J. (Eds). 2021. Pragmatic markers and peripheries. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.ISBN 9789027259080
- Mur Dueñas, P. & Šinkūnienė, J. (Eds). 2018. Intercultural perspectives on research writing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. DOI: 10.1075/aals.18
Scientific studies
- Šinkūnienė, J. 2014. Lietuviškojo humanitarinių ir socialinių mokslų diskurso ypatybės: Mokslo studija [Insights into Lithuanian academic discourse of the humanities and social sciences]. Vilnius: Vilniaus universiteto leidykla, 1-143 (6,6 aut. l.). ISBN: 978-609-459-350-5.
Research articles
- Šinkūnienė, J. 2021. Žinai‘you know’ in Lithuanian discourse: Distributional features and functional profile. In Daniël Van Olmen, & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (Eds). Pragmatic markers and peripheries. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Van Olmen, D. & Šinkūnienė, J. 2021. Introduction. Pragmatic markers and peripheries: An overview. In Daniël Van Olmen, & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (Eds). Pragmatic markers and peripheries. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
- Jürine, A., Leijen, D., Hint, H., Laiveniece, D., Šinkūnienė, J., Johansson, C., & Groom, N. 2021. Academic Writing in the Baltic States. Educare - Vetenskapliga Skrifter 1: 27-37.
- Šinkūnienė, J. 2020. Konstrukcijos su nederinamuoju neveikiamosios rūšies dalyviu galima: diskurso žymiklio link. Darbai ir Dienos 74: 77-96.
- Šinkūnienė J., Jasionytė-Mikučionienė E., Ruskan A., Šolienė A. 2020. Diskurso žymikliai lietuvių kalboje: reikšmės ir funkcijų kaitos aspektai. Lietuvių kalba 14.
- Šinkūnienė, J. & Vanholsbeeck, M. 2020. Learning the tricks of the academic trade: Evidence-based recommendations for career-building and for evaluation. Darbai ir Dienos 73: 81-92.
- Šinkūnienė, J. 2019. Reformulation markers in academic discourse: A cross-linguistic and cross-disciplinary study. Jezikoslovlje 20(3): 531-553.
- Guščytė, G. & Šinkūnienė, J. 2019. Research article acknowledgments across disciplines: Patterns of scholarly communication and tradition. ESP Today 7(2): 182-206. DOI: 10.18485/esptoday.2019.7.2.4.
- Zibalas, D. & Šinkūnienė, J. 2019. Rhetorical structures of promotional genres: The case of research article and conference abstracts. Discourse and Interaction 12(2): 95-113. DOI: 10.5817/DI2019-2-95.
- Šinkūnienė, J. 2018. The power of English: I and we in Lithuanian, Lithuanian English and British English research writing. In Pilar Mur Dueñas, & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (Eds). Intercultural perspectives on research writing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 59-79. DOI: 10.1075/aals.18.03sin.
- Mur Dueñas, P. & Šinkūnienė, J. 2018. Introduction: Intercultural rhetoric approaches to the analysis of academic genres. In Pilar Mur Dueñas, & Jolanta Šinkūnienė (Eds) Intercultural perspectives on research writing. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 1-14. DOI: 10.1075/aals.18.int.
- Šinkūnienė, J. & Dudzinskaitė G. 2018. Acknowledgment patterns in English and Lithuanian research writing. Discourse and Interaction 11(2): 65-86. DOI: 10.5817/DI2018-2-65.
- Šinkūnienė, J. 2017. Citations in Research Writing: Cultural, Disciplinary and Genre Perspectives. In Thomas Egan & Hildegunn Dirdal (Eds), Cross-linguistic correspondences: From lexis to genre. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 253-270. DOI:10.1075/slcs.191.10sin.
- Usonienė, A. & Šinkūnienė, J. 2017. Potential vs use: revisiting an evidential participial construction in Lithuanian. In Juana I. Marín-Arrese, Gerda Haβler & Marta Carretero (Eds), Evidentiality Revisited: Cognitive Grammar, Functional and Discourse-Pragmatic Perspectives. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 171-192. DOI: 10.1075/pbns.271.08uso.
- Jasionytė-Mikučionienė, E. & Šinkūnienė, J. 2017.The necessitive impersonal reik(ė)ti ‘need’: The rise of modal meaning. Lietuvių kalba 11. DOI: 10.15388/Lietkalb.2016.10.9932.
- Šinkūnienė, J. 2016. The modal verb galėti ‘can/could/may/might’ in academic Lithuanian: Distribution, frequency and semantic properties. Kalbotyra 69 (Special issue on modality and evidentiality in European languages): 205-222. DOI:10.15388/Klbt.2016.10373.
- Mur Dueñas, P. & Šinkūnienė, J. 2016. Self-reference in research articles across Europe and Asia: A review of studies. Brno Studies in English 42(1): 71-92. DOI: 10.5817/BSE2016-1-4.
- Šinkūnienė, J. 2015. Neepisteminis modalumas lietuvių ir anglų mokslo kalboje: kiekybiniai ir kokybiniai vartosenos ypatumai. Kalbotyra 67: 131-154. DOI: 10.15388/Klbt.2015.8946.
- Petrauskaitė, R. & Šinkūnienė, J. 2015. Dar kartą apie intertekstualumą. Ką jis sako apie mokslinį tekstą? Kalbotyra 67: 67-85. DOI: 10.15388/Klbt.2015.8943.
- Usonienė, A., Šolienė A. & Šinkūnienė, J. 2015. Revisiting the multifunctionality of the adverbials of Act and Fact in a cross-linguistic perspective. Nordic Journal of English Studies 14(1): 201-231. DOI: 10.35360/njes.345.
- Usonienė, A. & Šinkūnienė, J. 2014. A corpus-based look at zero correspondences: Realizations of epistemicity in a cross-linguistic perspective. In Dylan Glynn & Mette Sjölin (Eds), Subjectivity and Epistemicity: Corpus, discourse, and literary approaches to stance. Lund: Lund University Press, 263-279. ISBN: 978-91-87833-19-9.
- Šinkūnienė, J. 2013. Tarpkalbiniai ir tarpdalykiniai mokslo kalbos tyrimai: medžiagos ir metodų pasirinkimo iššūkiai tyrėjams. Kalbotyra 65, 99-112. DOI: 10.1515/9783110286328.281.
- Šinkūnienė, J. & Van Olmen, D. 2012. Modal verbs of necessity in academic English, Dutch and Lithuanian: Epistemicity and/or evidentiality. Darbai ir Dienos 58, 153-179.
- Šinkūnienė, J. 2012. Adverbials as Hedging Devices in Lithuanian Academic Discourse: a Cross-disciplinary Study. In Aurelija Usonienė, Nicole Nau & Ineta Dabašinskienė (Eds), Multiple perspectives in linguistic research on Baltic languages. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 138-168.
- Linkevičienė, N. & Šinkūnienė, J. 2012. Asmeniniai įvardžiai mokslo kalboje. Kalbotyra 64(3), 78-102. DOI: 10.15388/Klbt.2012.7662.
- Usonienė, A., Butėnas, L., Ryvitytė, B., Šinkūnienė, J., Jasionytė, E. & Juozapavičius, A. 2011. Corpus Academicum Lithuanicum: Design Criteria, Methodology, Application. In Zygmunt Vetulani (Ed), Human Language Technology. Challenges for Computer Science and Linguistics. Heidelberg: Springer, 412-422.DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-20095-3_38.
Popular science works, reviews
- Šinkūnienė. J. 2021. Supporting and Encouraging Writing: An interview with dr. Alison Farrell (National University of Ireland Maynooth) and dr. Katrin Girgensohn (European University Viadrina). Special issue “Writing in Context”,Educare, 5.
- Šinkūnienė. J. 2020. Moderator of Round Table Discussion Challenging evaluation in SSH. Discussants: Paul Benneworth, Tim C. E. Engels, Ioana Galleron, Emanuel Kulczycki, Michael Ochsner, Gunnar Sivertsen, Geoffrey Williams. Darbai ir Dienos 73, 107-126.
- Šinkūnienė, J. 2017. Corpora and corpus linguistics revisited: An interview with Karin Aijmer. Kalbotyra 70, 184-191. DOI: 10.15388/Klbt.2017.11202
- Šinkūnienė, J. 2016. Modality, Semantic Maps and Lithuania: An interview with Johan van der Auwera. Kalbotyra 69, 294-304.
- Šinkūnienė, J. 2015. Inquiry into genre: The craft of abstract. A review of Abstracts in Academic Discourse. Variation and change by Marina Bondi and Rosa Lorés Sanz (Eds). Bern: Peter Lang, 2014. 361 pages. ISBN 978-3-0343-1483-1. ESP Today 3(2), 252-257.
- Šinkūnienė, J. 2014. Ką atskleidžia padėkos moksliniame tekste? Internetinis dienraštis Bernardinai (2014.03.03).
- Šinkūnienė, J. 2013. Kokia iš tiesų yra mokslo kalba? Internetinis dienraštis Bernardinai (2013.02.28).
RESEARCH AND OTHER ACTIVITIES
Principal investigator in international/national research projects
- 2020-2023 Principal investigator of the Lithuanian team in the research project “Academic writing in the Baltic States: Rhetorical Structures through culture(s) and languages”, funded by Baltic Research Programme. Project partners: University of Tartu, University of Bergen, LiepajaUniversity.
- 2017-2020 Principal investigator in the research project“Discourse markers in Lithuanian: a synchronic and diachronic study”. Funded by the Research Council of Lithuania.
Participation in other international research/networking projects
- Stance and Subjectivity in Discourse: Towards an Integrated Framework for the Analysis of Epistemicity, Effectivity, Evaluation and Inter/Subjectivity from a Critical Discourse Perspective (2019-2021). Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economics.
- Evidentiality: a discourse-pragmatic study of English and other European languages (2016-2018). Funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economics.
- 2016-2020 COST Action CA15137: European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities.
- 2016-2020 COST Action CA15221: Advancing effective institutional models towards cohesive teaching, learning, research and writing development.
Participation in national research projects
- 2014-2016 Modality and evidentiality in Lithuanian. Research project funded by the Research Council of Lithuania
- 2012-2014 Insights into Lithuanian academic discourse of the Humanities and Social Sciences.Postdoctoral fellowhip funded by European Union Structural Funds project "Postdoctoral Fellowship Implementation in Lithuania"
- 2011 Methodology for the linguistic annotation of CorALit (Corpus Academicum Lithuanicum). Research project funded by the State Commission of the Lithuanian Language
- 2010-2011 Lithuanian academic discourse: Investigating author stance in Lithuanian academic discourse. Research project funded by the Research Council of Lithuania
Leading teams of researchers
- 2016-2020 Steering board member, leader of a special interest group for early career investigators in COST Action CA15137: European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities.
- 2018-2020 Core group member, leader of WG4 in COST Action CA15221: Advancing effective institutional models towards cohesive teaching, learning, research and writing development.
Membership in scientific organisations
- ICAME (International Computer Archive of Modern and Medieval English) board member
- GERAS (Groupe d'Etude et de Recherche en Anglais Spécialité) International correspondent in Lithuania
- DiPVaC (Discourse-Pragmatic Variation & Change)
- ESSE (The European Society for the Study of English)
- EATAW (European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing)
- IPrA (International Pragmatics Association)
- SLE (The Societas Linguistica Europaea)
- EVALHUM (Research Evaluation, Innovation and Impact Analysis for the Social sciences and Humanities)
- Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics asociacija (LiTaKA)