INSTITUTE OF LAW AT THE LITHUANIAN CENTRE FOR SOCIAL SCIENCES

Dr. Dalia Gedzevičienė

Position:

Research fellow, language editor.

 

Research interests:

Cognitive linguistics, metaphor studies, language of law, legal terminology, problems of naming of socially vulnerable persons.

 

International scientific profiles:

 

Publications:

 

Principal publications (from 2018):

Gedzevičienė D. (2022), Metaphorical Terms Denoting Intellectual Disability in Lithuanian Official Documents: Social Implications. Metaphor in Legal Discourse / Edited by I. Šeškauskienė. Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 50–80. ISBN 1527578496.

Gedzevičienė D. (2021), Change of Terms Defining Intellectual Disability and Its Levels in Lithuania and Change-determining Factors. Terminologija, Vol. 28, p. 114–152. doi.org/10.35321/term28-06.

Gedzevičienė D. (2019), Metaphor and Irony in the Public Criminological Discourse of Lithuania. East European Politics and Societies and Cultures, 2019, Vol. 33, No. 2, p. 400–422.

Gedzevičienė D. Blogųjų naujienų diskursas Lietuvos sovietmečio spaudoje (Bad News Discourse in the Lithuanian Soviet Press). In: Respectus Philologicus, 2018, t. 34, Nr. 39, p. 61–72.

Gedzevičienė D. (2018), Lithuanian metaphorical legal terms. Taikomoji kalbotyra, 2018, No. 10, p. 26–44.

 

Contractual Research:

2019, Lithuanian metaphorical legal terms – Target Language Seminars for the LT Translation Unit, General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union, Rue de la Loi/Wetstraat 175 - 1048 Brussel – Belgium, 25/10/2019.

 

Presentations at Conferences (from 2018):

2022, Gedzevičienė D. Metaphorical Terms Denoting Intellectual Disability in Lithuanian Official Documents: Social Implications. Online discussion - presentation of the book “Metaphor in Legal Discourse” (2022, Cambridge Scholars Publishing). Vilnius University, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 31/05/2022.

2020, Gedzevičienė D. Terminology Denoting Intellectual Disability and Its Influence on Social Attitudes. Scientific seminar “Terminology: matters of science and practice“. Institute of the Lithuanian Language, Vilnius, Lithuania, 16/10/2020.

 

Science Promotion (from 2018):

2020, Interview "The name of the diagnosis - a ticket to social exclusion?" for the newspaper "Bičiulystė" (newspaper of Lithuanian Society of Disabled Persons).