Ruzaitė, Jūratė

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Jūratė Ruzaitė is a Professor at the Department of Foreign Language, Literary and Translation Studies at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas. She earned her PhD in Linguistics from the University of Bergen. Her research focuses on sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, language and ideology, hate speech, and disinformation. She has coordinated and participated in (inter)national research projects and published extensively on politeness, offensive language, and argumentative strategies. She served as Associate Editor of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Journal (2018–2024), is a board member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics, and a scientific expert at the Lithuanian Research Council.