Ruzaitė, Jūratė

Abstract

Professor at the Department of Foreign Language, Literary and Translation Studies at Vytautas Magnus University, researcher at the Centre of Intercultural Communication and Multilingualism, Kaunas, Lithuania. Education professional with a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) focused in Linguistics from the University of Bergen (Norway). Researcher and educator with rich experienced in (inter)national research projects, including a national project (Semantika-2, 2018-2019) in the framework of which a software for automated detection of offensive online comments in Lithuanian was created. Associate Editor of the Lithuanian Applied Linguistics Journal; board member of the Lithuanian Association of Applied Linguistics. Research interests include sociolinguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, language and ideology, hate speech, propaganda, and disinformation.