Mgr. Petr Kos, Ph.D.

Mgr. Petr Kos, Ph.D., studied on the Teaching English as a Second Language programme at the Faculty of Education, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. He completed his Ph.D. studies of English philology at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague. He focused his studies on English lexicology and defended his dissertation thesis Bird Names in English:  A Linguistic Analysis under the supervision of Prof. Jan Čermák.

He first worked as an English lecturer at the Faculty of Management, University of Economics Prague, in Jindřichův Hradec. Later he worked at the Faculty of Theology and since 1999 at the Faculty of Science, University of South Bohemia in České Budějovice. Between the years 2001 and 2015, he was Head of the Language Department. In 2008, the Faculty of Science enabled him to study one semester at Georgia Southern University in the USA, where he focused on teaching the methodology of academic writing. He continues to cooperate with the Language Department, Faculty of Science, externally and focusing on scientific style, idiomatic language, and academic writing.

In his research, he deals with word-formation, namely the creation of new naming units from an onomasiological perspective. He focuses mainly on issues related to the conceptualization of extra-linguistic reality by means of metaphor and metonymy from the perspective of Cognitive Linguistics and on morphological formation from the perspective of paradigmatic approaches to word-formation. 

Chapter in monograph:

• Kos, P. (2020). The level of paradigmaticity within derivational networks. In: Fernández-Domínguez, J., Bagasheva, A. & Lara Clares, C. (eds.), Paradigmatic relations in word formation. Leiden: Brill.

Articles:

• Kos, P., Gutiérrez Rubio, E. (accepted for publication). Arguing for a "broader" view of metonymy in word-formation. Special Issue for Cognitive Linguistic Studies . Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Gutiérrez Rubio, E., Kos, P. (2024). Procesos conceptuales en la acuñación de términos que denotan pene en el español americano. Cuadernos de Lingüística Hispánica 44. Boyacá: UPTC.
• Kos, P. (2024). Instantiating variables in schemas within Relational Morphology. Linguistica Pragensia 2024 (34) 2. Praha: FF UK.
• Martinková, M., Kos, P., Calle Bocanegra, R. (2023). Zpráva o konferenci španělské asociace pro kognitivní lingvistiku AELCO 2022. Časopis pro moderní filologii 1/2023, Praha: FF UK.
• Kos, P. (2023). The role of metonymy in naming: If longhair then apple tree and teacher. Review of Cognitive Linguistics 21:1. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
• Kos, P., Kozubíková Šandová, J. (2020). Onomaziologické přístupy ke slovotvorbě. Časopis pro moderní filologii 1/2020, Praha: FF UK.
• Kos, P. (2019). Zpráva z konference AELCO 2018 v Córdobě. Časopis pro moderní filologii 1/2019, Praha: FF UK.
• Kos. P. (2019). Metaphor and metonymy as a means of economy of expression. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics 16/1.
• Kos, P. (2018). O idiomatickém charakteru pojmenování v mutační kategorii. Časopis pro moderní filologii 1/2018, Praha: FF UK.
• Kos, P. (2014). Minor Word-formation Processes in Jargon Bird Names in English. Linguistica Pragensia 1/2014, Praha: FF UK.
• Kos, P. (2014). Zvukomalebná pojmenování ptáků v angličtině. Časopis pro moderní filologii 1/2014, Praha: FF UK.

Conferences:

• Structural neologisms: the emergence of novel schemas in word-formation, Biennial International Conference on the Linguistics of the Contemporary English, Alicante, Spain, 26-28 September 2024.
• Conceptual processing in coining terms for penis in American Spanish: a quantitative analysis (with Enrique Gutiérrez Rubio), XIII Congreso Internacional AELCO 2024, Granada, Spain, 25-27 September 2024.
• Diversity of schemas in English bahuvrihi compounds, Biennial of Czech Linguistics 2024, Prague, Czechia, 18-20 September 2024.
• Conceptualization in naming: a case study on colloquial American Spanish terms for penis (with Enrique Gutiérrez Rubio), CALC-2 Conference, Prague, Czechia, 23-25 November 2022.
• Arguing for a ”wider“ view of metonymy in word-formation, Cordoba International Metonymy Symposium, Córdoba, Spain, 23-24 September 2022.
• Why pig in the first place? Metonymy in word-formation, 20^th International Morphology Meeting, Budapest, Hungary, 1-4 September 2022.
• The role of metonymy in word-formation (with Enrique Gutiérrez Rubio), AELCO 12^th International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association, Logroño, Spain, 27-29 June 2022.
• Paradigmatic nature of Dokulil's onomasiological theory of word-formation, ParadigMo2- Workshop on Paradigm-based Approaches to Word-Formation Modeling, Bordeaux, France, 3–4 June 2021.
• From Concept to Structure: the interdisciplinarity of an onomasiological approach to word-formation, Linguistics beyond and within 2019, Lublin, Poland, 17–18 October 2019.
• Predicting cells in word-formation paradigms – a case study (with Jana Kozubíková Šandová), International Symposium of Morphology 2019, University Paris-Diderot, Paris, France, 25–27 September 2019.
• Word-formation paradigms at work: on the complementarity between the semasiological and the onomasiological approach (with Jan Radimský), American International Morphology Meeting, Stony Brook University, New York, USA, 3–5 May 2019.
• Image metaphors beyond image, AELCO 11th International Conference of the Spanish Cognitive Linguistics Association, Córdoba, Spain, 17–19 October 2018.
• On paradigmatic relations within word nests, Workshop on Revisiting paradigms in word-formation within the Word-Formation Theories III & Typology and Universals in Word-Formation IV Conference, Košice, Slovakia, 27–30 June 2018.
• Metaphor and metonymy as a means of formal economy, Word-Formation Theories III & Typology and Universals in Word-Formation IV Conference, Košice, Slovakia, 27–30 June 2018.
• Onomasiological evidence on the limits of derivational families, ParadigMo 2017 - First Workshop on Paradigmatic Word Formation Modeling, Toulouse, France,19–20 June 2017.

Grants:

• Researching conceptual metonymy in selected areas of grammar, discourse and sign language with the aid of the University of Córdoba Metonymy Database. Co-researcher in the grant project led by prof. Antonio Barcelona (University of Córdoba, Spain).

Invited lectures:

• Naming Nature, An onomasiological model of word-formation, Department of British and American Studies, Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Slovakia, 9 April 2019.
• Naming Nature, Department of English and German Filology, University of Córdoba, Spain, March 2017.

• Onomasiology and Birds, Department of English and German Filology, University of Córdoba, Spain, March 2016.

• The Secret Life of the Passive, Department of Writing and Linguistics, Georgia Southern University, USA, May 2008.

Translations (selection):

• Halamová, M., Returns from Concentration Camps, Poznańskie Studia Slawistyczne, No. 12, 2017.
• Halamová, M., Memoirs and fiction of the Czech writer Jaroslav Durych written at the front during World War I, in: 'Historical Works' Academic Journal of the Jagiellonian University, Krakow 2014.
• Halamová, M., Příběh vyprávění Viktora Fischla, překlad anglického resumé, Praha 2010.
• Low, R., Amazoňané přehled druhů, chov v lidské péči, život ve volnosti. Dona, České Budějovice 2004.

Lectures for the general public:

• Metaphor beyond poetry, Britské centrum JU, 7 March 2019.
• Metafora nejen poetická, Třeboň, 23 March 2018.
• Naming nature aneb onomaziologický model pojmenování, Filologický klub JU, České Budějovice, 23 March 2017.
• O řeči ptáků a o ptácích v řeči: jarní (filologická inspirace), Třeboň, 18 March 2017.

Doctoral thesis:

• Kos, P., Bird names in  English: A Linguistic Analysis. Disertační práce. Univerzita Karlova, Praha 2011.

International cooperation / Study stays

• University of Oxford, Faculty of Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics, United Kingdom, 27 February - 3 March 2023

• University of Granada, Department of German and English Philology, Spain, 15 May – 17 May 2019

• Pavol Jozef Šafárik University in Košice, Department of British and American Studies, Slovakia, 8 April – 12 April 2019

• University of Córdoba, Department of English and German Studies, Spain, 27 March – 31 March 2017

• University of Córdoba, Department of English and German Studies, Spain, 29 March – 1 Apr 2016

• University of Sussex, Sussex Centre for Language Studies, Great Britain, 19 May – 23 May 2014

• Free University of Bolzano/Bozen, Language Centre, Italy, 13 May – 17 May 2013

• Georgia Southern University, Department of Writing and Linguistics, USA, Spring semester (January – May) 2008, Training in Academic Writing

Membership in organisations:

• AELCO – Asociación Española de Lingüística Cognitiva (od 2018 – 2020)
• KMF – Kruh moderních filologů (od 2017 – present)
• CERCLES – European Confederation of Language Centres in Higher Education (od 2009 – 2015)