Zlatoslava Savych M.A.

Contact information

WU Vienna University of Economics and Business

Department of Business Communication

Institute for Slavic Languages

Welthandelsplatz 1, D2.3.194 (Entrance D)

A-1020 Wien

Email: zlatoslava.savych@wu.ac.at

Education

  • 2017: BA in English and American Studies, University of Vienna

  • 2020: MA in English Language and Linguistics, University of Vienna

  • 2021 – present: PhD in Economic and Social Sciences, WU (Supervisor: Univ. Prof. Dr. Nadine Thielemann)

Positions held

  • 2018 – 2020: Teaching and Research Assistant, Institute for Slavic Languages, WU

  • 2020 – present: Teaching and Research Associate, Institute for Slavic Languages, WU

PhD project

Language, migration and care labour:
The experiences of Ukrainian care workers in the EU

My PhD thesis seeks to explore the interrelationship between transnational migration, care labour and language by focusing on care workers from Ukraine. More specifically, the thesis aims to examine the lived experiences of economic migration and care work of migrant caregivers employed in the EU, by paying close attention to the linguistic resources and strategies that the care workers used to construct their experiences and identities. The project will also investigate the care workers’ reported work-related communicative demands, their language learning experiences and the linguistic and cultural challenges they face in intercultural work encounters.

Research interests

  • Intercultural business communication

  • Language and migration

  • Narratives and the discursive construction of identities

  • Professional and workplace communication

Journal article

2021 Thielemann, Nadine, Göke, Regina, Savych, Zlatoslava. 2021. Motzen und Moral. Eine kontrastiv pragmatische Pilotstudie zur Unzufriedenheitskommunikation am universitären Arbeitsplatz (FR - DE - AT - PL - RU). Read more

Chapter in edited volume

2023 Hofer-Bonfim, Bernadette, Savych, Zlatoslava, Schnitzer, Johannes. 2023. Comparing Diversity & Inclusion (D&I) disclosures across nine countries In: Diversity and Inclusion across languages. Hrsg. Hofer-Bonfim, Bernadette, Zehetgruber, Magdalena, Peters, Elisabeth, Schnitzer, Johannes. Read more
2023 Thielemann, Nadine, Savych, Zlatoslava. 2023. Corporate Communication at the Intersection of Economic and Political Discourse In: Konzepte der NATION im europäischen Kontext im 21. Jahrhundert. Hrsg. Salamurović, Aleksandra. Read more