Aurelija Čekuolytė
About me
Hi! My name is Aurytė Čekuolytė (officially – Aurelija Čekuolytė). I‘m a sociolinguist through and through: from random daily observations of people talk to research, academic papers and education.
In 2010 I graduated from Vilnius University where I studied Scandinavian (Danish) Philology (both BA and MA). My BA and MA thesises are entitled respectively „The Dane’s and the Lithuanian’s Attitudes to the English Language on the Window-Cases in Copenhagen and Vilnius: the matched guise experiment“ (BA) and „Danish and Lithuanian Adolescents’ Language Attitudes to English in Adults’ Speech“ (MA). Language of both thesises is Danish.
Since autumn 2010 I am enrolled in the joint Ph.D. programme of Institute of the Lithuanian Language and Vytautas Magnus University. The tentative title of my Ph.D. project is „Language and Identity: An Ethnographic and Sociolinguistic Study of Vilnius Adolescents‘ Speech“.
Throughout the whole course of my studies – BA and MA as well as current Ph.D. studies – I have made numerous visits to University of Copenhagen, particularly Department of Scandinavian Studies and Linguistics and LANCHART (Danish National Research Foundation Centre for Language Change In Real Time).
Reseach interests:
- Youth language,
- Language attitudes,
- Methodology of sociolinguistic research.
Projects
2012–2014: Vilnius Speaking II: city and linguistic diversity (role in the project – junior researcher). Funded by The Research Council of Lithuania.
2010: Vilnius Speaking: the Role of Vilnius Speech in Present Lithuania (role in the project – junior researcher). Funded by The Research Council of Lithuania.
2007–2009: Language Use and National Identity in towns in Lithuania (role in the project – project participant, interviewer). Funded by State Studies Foundation.
Publications
Čekuolytė, Aurelija. Vilnius adolescents’ social order: An outsider’s look Inside. An ethnographic and sociolinguistic study of social categories and stylistic practices among Vilnius adolescents. PhD dissertation. Vilnius: Institute of the Lithuanian Language, 2017. Visas tekstas Santrauka
"‘He blet nachui was in a shop’: Swearing Practices and Attitudes to Swearing among Vilnius Adolescents", Taikomoji kalbotyra 2014 (6).
"Streetwise, Active and Cool: How Do Vilnius Adolescents Perceive Their Peers’ Linguistic Identity?", Taikomoji kalbotyra 2014 (6).
Etnografinio metodo taikymas sociolingvistiniuose (jaunimo kalbos) tyrimuose, Taikomoji kalbotyra 2012 (1).
Jaunimo požiūris į angliškus žodžius suaugusiųjų kalboje, Kalbos kultūra 83, 2010, 322–341.
Presentations in conferences and seminars
"Social Differences – Linguistic Differences: Inequality as the Object of Sociolinguistic Research", National Conference of Lithuanian Sociologists "Lithuania of Inequalities", Lithuanian Academy of Sciences, Vilnius, the 30th of November, 2012 (together with Loreta Vaicekauskienė).
„Rusų ir anglų kalbos socialinė reikšmė Vilniaus jaunimo kalboje“, Jaunųjų tyrėjų stovykla Užuovėjos: apie kalbą ir kitas baimes, LKI, Nida, 2012 m. rugsėjo 13–16 d.
"Pop Girls and Tough Boys: An Ethnographic Study of Russian and English in Vilnius Adolescents’ Speech”, The 11th Nordic Conference on Bilingualism, Aarhus University, Department of Educatio, Copenhagen, 14–16 of June, 2012.
“An Ethnographic Study of Vilnius Adolescents’ Speech”, Graduate Conference on Areal Linguistics, Grammar and Contacts, Tartu universitetas, Tartu, 4–6 of May, 2012.