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

Effectiveness of Interruption as a Communicative Strategy in the 2020 Presidential Debates in the USA. Brno Studies in English 48(2):2022. DOI: 10.5817/BSE2022-2-5

Prominence and Melody Mistakes in the Spontaneous Speech of Czech Learners of English. http://www.skase.sk/Volumes/JTL51/01.pdf

Balancing Authentic Content and “Hot Topic” Discussions in an ESP Classroom. http://doi.fil.bg.ac.rs/pdf/journals/esptoday/2022-2/esptoday-2022-10-2-6.pdf

Manipulative use of political headlines in western and Russian online sources.  https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/Y8CNT6HWJYRZWJMZHQX8/full

Interruption as a reflection of speaker’s identity in the 2020 US presidential debates. https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/391308 

Reading ‘between the lines’: How implicit language helps liberal media survive in authoritarian regimes. The Kommersant Telegram posts case study. https://journals.sagepub.com/eprint/KCZZZJHCPCGRIHAITNNK/full

On Non-Native Listeners' Ability to Identify Prominence and Pitch Accents in English Monologic Speech https://journals.uni-lj.si/elope/article/view/16530/15882

 

 

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), Pilsen, 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/ 

ORCID

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

ResearchGate 

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

 

 

1. Tymbay, Alexey. 2022. “Balancing authentic content and ’hot topic’ discussions in an ESP classroom.” ESP Today. 10(2), 310-328.
2. Tymbay, Alexey. 2022. “Manipulative use of political headlines in western and Russian online sources.” DISCOURSE & COMMUNICATION. 16(3), 346-363.
3. 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.
4. 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. 2022. “Effectiveness of Interruption as a Communicative Strategy in the 2020 Presidential Debates in the USA.” Brno Studies in English. 48(2), 101-118.

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  Analysis of Stress Mistakes in English among Czech Students
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  Contrastive analysis of prominence (focus words) in English and Czech
• Šelemberková Veronika | bakalářská práce | 22.4.2024
  Rhetorical Techniques Employed by Contemporary US Women Speakers
• Čižinská Kristina Erin | bakalářská práce | 16.10.2023
  Discrimination of voiced and voiceless consonants in minimal pairs
• Pachelová Anna | bakalářská práce | 26.4.2023
  The impacts of mother tongue on the implementation of stress patterns in English among Czech students
• Stejskalová Aneta | diplomová práce | 24.4.2023
  Effectiveness of phonemic awareness-based exercises in enhancing the skill of transcribing
• Štrigl Jan | diplomová práce | 7.12.2022
  Analysis of the accent production of TUL students specialised in English teaching
• Jílková Lenka | bakalářská práce | 12.7.2022
  The Role of Non-verbal Means of communication in EFL classes