Mgr. Alexey Tymbay, CSc.

Assistant Professor at the English Language Department of Technical University in Liberec, CSc., a member of the Czech Association for the Study of English. He teaches SPELB, LNSNE, PUMNE (PRTA), PAU1/2, KON, and other courses. He has authored several papers on English Phonology, Political Discourse Analysis, and Communicative Linguistics.

Research interests:

Phonetics (intonation analysis, turn-taking in dialogue), pragmatics (communicative strategies and tactics), political discourse analysis (public speaking, politicians' talker identities), ESP methodology

Education:

2012: Course in EU Terminology, College of Europe
2005: CSc. in Linguistics. Dissertation: "Prosodic Component of Turn-Taking in a Dialogue"
2002: Degree in Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication. Thesis: "Intonation of a Question"

Textbooks

Sounds of English. A practical pronunciation course. (in co-authorship with I. Tymbay). Technical University of Liberec. 2023

English for International Relations Students. An ESP textbook. B2+/C1 (in co-authorship with T. Alieva, O. Kuzmičova, T. Jablokova). 2021

Theoretical Phonetics of the English Language. 2020. 

A Practical Course on English Pronunciation. 2019. 

 

Recent articles

Articles in Journals Indexed in the Web of Science

Tymbay, A. (2022). Balancing authentic content and ’hot topic’ discussions in an ESP classroom. ESP Today, 10(2), 310-328. http://doi.fil.bg.ac.rs/pdf/journals/esptoday/2022-2/esptoday-2022-10-2-6.pdf

Tymbay, A. (2022). Manipulative use of political headlines in Western and Russian online sources. Discourse & Communication, 16(3), 346-363.  https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/Y8CNT6HWJYRZWJMZHQX8/full

Tymbay, A. (2022). Prominence and Melody Mistakes in the Spontaneous Speech of Czech Learners of English. SKASE Journal of Theoretical Linguistics, 19(2), 2-17. http://www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTL51/01.pdf

Tymbay, A. (2021). Interruption as a reflection of speaker’s identity in the 2020 US presidential debates. Suvremena Lingvistika, 47(92), 283-306. https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/391308

Tymbay, A. (2024). Reading ‘between the lines’: How implicit language helps liberal media survive in authoritarian regimes. The Kommersant Telegram posts case study. Discourse & Communication, 18(4), 557-591. https://doi.org/10.1177/17504813241236907

Tymbay, A. (2025).Non-native (Czech and Russian L1) auditor assessments of some English suprasegmental features: Prominence and pitch accents.Speech Communication,173, 103281. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.specom.2025.103281

Articles in Journals Indexed in Scopus

Tymbay, A. (2022). Effectiveness of Interruption as a Communicative Strategy in the 2020 Presidential Debates in the USA. Brno Studies in English, 48(2), 101-118. https://doi.org/10.5817/BSE2022-2-5

Tymbay, A. (2024). On Non-Native Listeners’ Ability to Identify Prominence and Pitch Accents in English Monologic Speech. ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries, 21(1), 63-88. https://doi.org/10.4312/elope.21.1.63-88

Tymbay, A. (2024). Conducting classroom research: Czech students as English prominence and melody annotators. Discourse & Interaction, 17(2), 115-146. https://doi.org/10.5817/DI2024-2-115

 

 

Recent Conferences

• Innovation in Language Learning (Florence, Italy), November 2022: "Potential Risks of Bringing Authentic Materials to an ESP Classroom or the Media Manipulative Techniques EFL Students should be aware of" https://conference.pixel-online.net/ICT4LL/files/ict4ll/ed0015/Conference%20Proceedings.pdf 
• ESSE 2022 (Mainz, Germany), August-September 2022: Roundtable "Interpreting Online Headlines" https://esse2022.uni-mainz.de/round-tables/
• The XXXI International Conference "Problems of Media Law - 2022"(Moscow, HSE), December 2022: Plenary speech: "The manipulative potential of Russian and Western online headlines: a language expert's account"https://www.hse.ru/en/news/announcements/779409789.html

• TENTH BRNO CONFERENCE ON LINGUISTICS STUDIES IN ENGLISH 2023. Looking beyond the surface of the text. 4-5 September 2023. Brno, Czech Republic. "Conducting classroom research: Students as English prominence and melody annotators."https://bclse.ped.muni.cz/media/3559219/final_conference_programme-2023.pd

• International Symposium on Identities and Identity Construction, Brest (France), 18-20 October 2023, "Public Debate as a Contributor to the Politician’s Identity Creation" https://www.univ-brest.fr/crbc/menu/Projets_de_recherche/Identites-et-constructions-identitaires-dans-le-discours-et-la-langue  

• ENCOUNTERS IN/AMONG LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, AND ARTS, organized by the Department of Humanities, Faculty of Economics, Socio-Human Sciences and Engineering, Miercurea Ciuc, of Sapientia Hungarian University of Transylvania, which took place in Miercurea Ciuc, Romania, on 23-23 March 2024, with the online lecture entitled Mother Tongue (L1) Prosodic Transfer in EFL Teaching.https://csik.sapientia.ro/en/research/conferences/current-conferences/encounters-inamong-language-literature-and-arts/programme-2024

• 4th International EAPCRETE Conference "Options and practices of EMI, EAP
  and ESP Multiliteracies and their pedagogical implications" that took place on 26-28 April 2024 at the University of Crete, Greece, with a paper “Exploring Multiliteracies: The Imperative of Pronunciation Practice.”https://eapcrete.wordpress.com/updates/
• INPRA 2024: 10-th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication, 30 of May - 2 of June 2024, Pisa (Italy), with a report: "On Readers' ability to Identify and Explicitate Political Implicatures in On-line Media Discourse." https://inprapisa2024.com/session/on-readers-ability-to-identify-and-explicitate-political-implicatures-in-on-line-media-discourse-the-kommersant-telegram-channel-case-study/
• The Biennial of Czech Linguistics, Prague, Charles Univerity, 18-20 September 2024, with the talk "The effect of chosen turn-taking strategies on the perception of the politician’s public image (based on the analysis of televised presidential debates in the USA)" https://bcl2024.ff.cuni.cz/en/home/
• Linguistic Pragmatics (LPPL), Pilzen, 15 November 2024, "Pragmatic Purposes of Using Offensive Language and Dysphemisms in Public Addresses (a Donald Trump Ideostyle Case Study)" https://www.lppl.zcu.cz/en/Program/ 
• International Congress on Easy Reading (Lectura Fácil), Seville (Spain) 23-24 January 2025, "Digital Media Infographics Analysis" https://eventos.upo.es/125557/detail/congreso-internacional-sobre-investigacion-en-lectura-facil.html
• MINDING THE GAPS: 12th Brno International Conference of English, American, and Canadian Studies, Brno, 5th–7th February 2025. "Merging Language Theory with Classroom Practice for Teaching Effective Communication in a Foreign Language." https://english.phil.muni.cz/gaps2025/programme/book-of-abstracts
• The 25th Workshop on the Roots of Pragmasemantics, Szklarska Poręba (Poland), February, 21-24, 2025. "Political Implicatures in Media Discourse: A Telegram Case Study" https://sites.google.com/view/25th-szklarska-poreba-workshop/programme?authuser=0
• 6th International Conference GranaSlavic 2025
  University of Granada | June 2-4, 2025, with a report: "Political Implicatures in Online Media Discourse",https://www.granaslavic2025.com/program
• 46th International Child Phonology Conference (ICPC 2025) ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest, Hungary 28-30 May 2025, with a talk "Visualising Pronunciation Practice,"https://icpc2025.elte.hu/content/program.t.39814?m=9467
• The Eleventh Brno Conference on Linguistics Studies in English: Advances in English linguistics (Brno, 7-8 September 2025), with a talk "Merging Language Theory with Classroom Practice for Teaching Effective Communication in a Foreign Language"https://bclse.ped.muni.cz/programme
•  LPPL (Linguistic Pragmatics Pilzen/Liberec), 13-14 November 2025 in Liberec with a talk: "Grice’s Maxims in Student Assessments of AI Writing Tools: A Pragmatic Lens on ChatGPT, Perplexity, and Jenni AI in the Classroom" https://www.lppl.zcu.cz/en/Current/

ORCID

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2061-0263

ResearchGate 

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Alexey-Tymbay

 

 

1. Tymbay, Alexey. 2025. “Non-native (Czech and Russian L1) auditor assessments of some English suprasegmental features: Prominence and pitch accents.” SPEECH COMMUNICATION. 173(173), 103281.
2. Tymbay, Alexey. 2024. “Reading ‘between the lines’: How implicit language helps liberal media survive in authoritarian regimes. The Kommersant Telegram posts case study.” Discourse & Communication. 18(4), 557-591.
3. Tymbay, Alexey. 2022. “Balancing authentic content and ’hot topic’ discussions in an ESP classroom.” ESP Today. 10(2), 310-328.
4. Tymbay, Alexey. 2022. “Manipulative use of political headlines in western and Russian online sources.” DISCOURSE & COMMUNICATION. 16(3), 346-363.
5. Tymbay, Alexey. 2022. “Prominence and Melody Mistakes in the Spontaneous Speech of Czech Learners of English.” Skase Journal of Theoretical Linguistics. 19(2), 2-17.
6. Tymbay, Alexey. 2021. “Interruption as a reflection of speaker’s identity in the 2020 US presidential debates.” Suvremena. 47(92), 283-306.

1. Tymbay, Alexey. 2024. “Conducting classroom research: Czech students as English prominence and melody annotators..” Discourse and Interaction. 17(2), 115-146.
2. Tymbay, Alexey. 2024. “On Non-Native Listeners’ Ability to Identify Prominence and Pitch Accents in English Monologic Speech.” ELOPE: English Language Overseas Perspectives and Enquiries. 21(1), 63-88.
3. Tymbay, Alexey. 2022. “Effectiveness of Interruption as a Communicative Strategy in the 2020 Presidential Debates in the USA.” Brno Studies in English. 48(2), 101-118.

1. Tymbay, Alexey, 2022. Potential Risks of Bringing Authentic Materials to an ESP Classroom or the Media Manipulative Techniques EFL Students should be Aware of. Filodritto Editore.

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