{"id":301836,"date":"2023-08-29T09:23:38","date_gmt":"2023-08-29T07:23:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/polishscience.pl\/?p=301836"},"modified":"2023-08-29T09:24:06","modified_gmt":"2023-08-29T07:24:06","slug":"researcher-from-kazimierz-wielki-university-in-bydgoszcz-to-conduct-research-in-namibia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/researcher-from-kazimierz-wielki-university-in-bydgoszcz-to-conduct-research-in-namibia\/","title":{"rendered":"Researcher from Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz to conduct research in Namibia\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr Wojciech Wachowski from the Department of Linguistics at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz will carry out a project &#8216;Metaphor of death and dying in the oshiwambo and otjiherero languages&#8217;. He has won funding for his research in Namibia from the National Science Centre as part of the Miniatura 7 competition.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The ongoing research activity will provide a better understanding of the oshiwambo and otjiherero languages and will add to the existing literature. It is a pilot study and involves a one-month stay in Namibia, during which Dr Wachowski intends to obtain material for analysis from newspaper articles, obituaries, tombstone inscriptions and interviews conducted with speakers of the aforementioned languages.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr Wachowski has been researching the metaphors of death and passing for several years. The fruits of this research are academic articles and a monograph &#8220;Metonymies and Metaphors for Death Around the World&#8221; published in 2021.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read more: <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukw.edu.pl\/strona\/aktualnosci\/aktualnosci\/71754\/dr-wojciech-wachowski-przeprowadzi-badania-w-nambii-w-ramach-projektu-ncn\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">https:\/\/www.ukw.edu.pl\/strona\/aktualnosci\/aktualnosci\/71754\/dr-wojciech-wachowski-przeprowadzi-badania-w-nambii-w-ramach-projektu-ncn<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr Wojciech Wachowski from the Department of Linguistics at Kazimierz Wielki University in Bydgoszcz will carry out a project &#8216;Metaphor of death and dying in the oshiwambo and otjiherero languages&#8217;. He has won funding for his research in Namibia from the National Science Centre as part of the Miniatura 7 competition.\u00a0 The ongoing research activity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":301806,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301836"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=301836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":301844,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/301836\/revisions\/301844"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/301806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=301836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=301836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.polishscience.pl\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=301836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}