Research

The Department of Philology conducts the following majors and research fields:

1. The history of books, the press, libraries and reading from the 16^th century to modern times in the lands of Poland
2. Contemporary problems in academic information and in Polish and European library science
3. Contrastive analysis of the lexico-syntactic and pragmatic aspects of Polish and German
4. Intercultural, pragmatic and psycholinguistic aspects of the teaching of German as a foreign language
5. German literature in the light of comparative studies
6. German-language literature in the 20^th century. A multiplicity of discourses
7. West-Slavic and South-Slavic languages, literatures and cultures
8. Communicative-functional comparative study of East-Slavic languages
9. Critique of translation and its historical-literary context
10. The lexicography of Polish-Russian translation
11. Russian literature from a post-colonial perspective
12. The method and practice of the teaching of Russian
13. Grammatical description of Russian in comparison with the other languages of Europe
14. The pragmatics and stylistics of texts in Russian
15. Translation from the perspective of intercultural communication
16. Developmental tendencies in Russian literature in the 20^th and 21^st centuries
17. Studies in the history of English and Indo-European languages
18. Studies in academic language
19. Studies in the cognitive-pragmatic aspects of translation
20. Studies in the absorption of language – methodology and practice
21. The teaching process – teaching English as an international and as an ethnic language
22. Specialized language registers
23. Studies in the grammar and semantics of language
24. Research on the functional varieties of language, regional language, the informal and everyday aspects of language, speech impediments, the language of the socialization process, and text and discourse in spoken and written language
25. The history of Polish – system, text, functional varieties, forms of speech, discourse, and Silesian Polish.
26. Lexicology and lexicography, and lexical semantics. Cultural and cognitive linguistics. The language of religion.
27. Contemporary Polish – text, discourse (conceptualization and realization of the text, theory and interpretation), contemporary Polish style, varieties of speech.
28. Discourse as a multidimensional object: axiological and ontological structures, predicative and situational structures.
29. Hybridity in regard to literary conventions
30. Spanish as a tool in intercultural communication
31. Construction of electronic dictionaries (lexical databases) and disambiguation of meaning for the purpose of automatic translation
32. New informational and communicational technologies in the teaching of foreign languages at various levels, and for different kinds of learners
33. Basic axiological values in fairy tales for children – intercultural comparison
34. Postmodernism and postcolonialism in literature and translation studies
35. Cultural spaces in contemporary Italian literature. Tradition and continuity
36. Drama, the theatre and performance in English
37. Hemispheric and transoceanic studies in the cultures of the countries of North America
38. Canadian cultural studies
39. Literary and cultural discourses from a theoretical perspective
40. The relations between human and nature in the context of ecocriticism and animal studies
41. Interactive entertainment
42. Europeans traditions in popular culture
43. Traces of the past and traces of the present in British cultural and literary studies
44. Major themes in American literature
45. Issues of gender and queer theory in critical theory and in literary studies
46. Anthropological, communicative and educational aspects of technology in everyday life
47. Aesthetic and anthropological contexts of culture
48. The media in culture
49. Theatre and drama in social and artistic performative practices
50. Transformations in literary culture
51. Universal and contextual conditions for cultural phenomena. Description, analysis, interpretation
52. The archeology of contemporary literary studies
53. Studies in Polish literature of the 18^th and 19^th centuries
54. Old literature and books
55. Two cultural models: Poland and Silesia from the 10^th to the 18^th century
56. Polish literature of the 20^th and 21^st centuries (scale of publishing, evolution of poetics, critical positions)
57. Modernization. Literature and other discourses
58. Modernism at the turn of the 20^th century and postmodernism at the turn of the 21^st century
59. Polish literary culture in the 20^th and 21^st centuries
60. Transformations in literary consciousness after 1956
61. Contemporary literary theory and methodologies of literary research
62. Linguistic competence of pupils in contemporary schools
63. Scholastic dialogue in the ancient and romantic traditions
64. Classical and Byzantine studies
65. Geocriticism
66. Adaptation in language and culture
67. Polish language and literature around the world