Professor Maciej Widawski is a sociolinguist and lexicographer specializing in language variation. He is head of the Department of Sociolinguistics and Lexicography at the University of Gdansk. He has studied slang since the early 1990’s, doing extensive fieldwork and conducting research at such academic centers as Columbia University and the University of Tennessee and has authored several books including a Polish-English dictionary of slang and colloquialisms.Dr. Małgorzata Kowalczyk is a sociolinguist and freelance lexicographer. Her interests also include language acquisition and learners’ dictionaries. She has conducted research at such academic centers as New York University and the University of Miami and has developed numerous lexical databases and co-authored a dictionary of student slang in Poland.

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