prof. dr. sc. Tanja Gradečak

Tanja Gradečak, Full Professor

Number in the Register of Scientific Workers of the Republic of Croatia: 254695

Link to profile on the Google Scholar website: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=IhoIjt0AAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao 

CroRIS: https://www.croris.hr/osobe/profil/1675 

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6328-6120

EDUCATION

• 1998 MA in English Language and Literature and German Language and Literature, Faculty of of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek;
• 2009. Doctor of Science, Department of Linguistics, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of  Zagreb

EMPLOYMENT

• April 28, 2010. Assistant Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek;
• February 27, 2014. Associate Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek;
• April 16, 2025 Full Professor, Department of English Language and Literature, Faculty of of Humanities and Social Sciences in Osijek;

PROJECTS

• 2000-2009 – Junior Researcher in the scientific research project "Complementation of Adjectives in English and Croatian" (MZT 122013); "Metonymy between lexis and grammar" (MZT 0122001; principal investigator Prof. Dr. Sc. Mario Brdar),
• from 2007 to 2010 –  Researcher in the project "Cognitive linguistic approach to polysemy in Croatian and other languages" (No. 122-1301049-0606; Principal Investigator Prof. Dr. Sc. Mario Brdar),
• 2014 – 2016 – Principal Investigator of the scientific research project for young researchers "Analysis of mutual influences of Croatian and English in the context of the modern computer environment"
• 2018 – 2020 – Researcher – UNIOS ZUP project "Figurative language in health communication" led by Prof. Dr. Sc. Marija Brdar
• from 2019 to 2022, researcher, bilateral scientific research project "Expressions of the author's reservations, attitude and relationship with the reader in academic writing of novice researchers in English as a foreign language" led by Prof. Dr. Sc. Višnja Pavičić Takač and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Sc. Biljana Radić-Bojanić from the Faculty of Philosophy in Novi Sad
• from 2019 to 2021, member of the project team of the ESF project entitled "Challenges for social sciences and humanities: new studies and the quality system of the Faculty of Philosophy in Zagreb within the national call UP.03.1.1.03 Implementation of the Croatian Qualifications Framework at the level of higher education".
• from 2025-2029. Head of the scientific research NPOO project

All research papers are available on CroRIS, link: https://www.bib.irb.hr/pretraga?operators=and|Grade%C4%8Dak,%20Tanja%20%281388%29|text| profile, and their citations are also visible on Google Scholar, link:

https://scholar.google.hr/citations?user=IhoIjt0AAAAJ&hl=hr&oi=sra (number of citations: 231 (97 as of 2020); H-index 9 (6 as of 2020)

Tanja Gradečak has been teaching several linguistic courses at the Department of English, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences since 2000, and since 2011 she has been teaching several courses at the PhD programme in Linguistics at the same faculty. At the Long Life Learning department she teaches the programme in Academic Writing in English.

She is a member of the editorial board of the academic journal Jezikoslovlje and since 2012 she has been a co-editor of the international linguistic journal ExELL (Explorations in English Language and Linguistics). She is a member of several linguistic associations, such as Croatian Association for Applied Linguistics, Croatian Association of Teachers of English (HUPE), International Cognitive Linguistics Association (ICLA), ESSE (The European Society for the Study of English).

Her field of interest lies in pragmatics, cognitive linguistics, metaphor and metonymy in framing public discourse, euphemisation and linguistic landscape research.