The Department of Philology conducts the following majors and research fields:
- The history of books, the press, libraries and reading from the 16th century to modern times in the lands of Poland
- Contemporary problems in academic information and in Polish and European library science
- Contrastive analysis of the lexico-syntactic and pragmatic aspects of Polish and German
- Intercultural, pragmatic and psycholinguistic aspects of the teaching of German as a foreign language
- German literature in the light of comparative studies
- German-language literature in the 20th century. A multiplicity of discourses
- West-Slavic and South-Slavic languages, literatures and cultures
- Communicative-functional comparative study of East-Slavic languages
- Critique of translation and its historical-literary context
- The lexicography of Polish-Russian translation
- Russian literature from a post-colonial perspective
- The method and practice of the teaching of Russian
- Grammatical description of Russian in comparison with the other languages of Europe
- The pragmatics and stylistics of texts in Russian
- Translation from the perspective of intercultural communication
- Developmental tendencies in Russian literature in the 20th and 21st centuries
- Studies in the history of English and Indo-European languages
- Studies in academic language
- Studies in the cognitive-pragmatic aspects of translation
- Studies in the absorption of language – methodology and practice
- The teaching process – teaching English as an international and as an ethnic language
- Specialized language registers
- Studies in the grammar and semantics of language
- 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
- The history of Polish – system, text, functional varieties, forms of speech, discourse, and Silesian Polish.
- Lexicology and lexicography, and lexical semantics. Cultural and cognitive linguistics. The language of religion.
- Contemporary Polish – text, discourse (conceptualization and realization of the text, theory and interpretation), contemporary Polish style, varieties of speech.
- Discourse as a multidimensional object: axiological and ontological structures, predicative and situational structures.
- Hybridity in regard to literary conventions
- Spanish as a tool in intercultural communication
- Construction of electronic dictionaries (lexical databases) and disambiguation of meaning for the purpose of automatic translation
- New informational and communicational technologies in the teaching of foreign languages at various levels, and for different kinds of learners
- Basic axiological values in fairy tales for children – intercultural comparison
- Postmodernism and postcolonialism in literature and translation studies
- Cultural spaces in contemporary Italian literature. Tradition and continuity
- Drama, the theatre and performance in English
- Hemispheric and transoceanic studies in the cultures of the countries of North America
- Canadian cultural studies
- Literary and cultural discourses from a theoretical perspective
- The relations between human and nature in the context of ecocriticism and animal studies
- Interactive entertainment
- Europeans traditions in popular culture
- Traces of the past and traces of the present in British cultural and literary studies
- Major themes in American literature
- Issues of gender and queer theory in critical theory and in literary studies
- Anthropological, communicative and educational aspects of technology in everyday life
- Aesthetic and anthropological contexts of culture
- The media in culture
- Theatre and drama in social and artistic performative practices
- Transformations in literary culture
- Universal and contextual conditions for cultural phenomena. Description, analysis, interpretation
- The archeology of contemporary literary studies
- Studies in Polish literature of the 18th and 19th centuries
- Old literature and books
- Two cultural models: Poland and Silesia from the 10th to the 18th century
- Polish literature of the 20th and 21st centuries (scale of publishing, evolution of poetics, critical positions)
- Modernization. Literature and other discourses
- Modernism at the turn of the 20th century and postmodernism at the turn of the 21st century
- Polish literary culture in the 20th and 21st centuries
- Transformations in literary consciousness after 1956
- Contemporary literary theory and methodologies of literary research
- Linguistic competence of pupils in contemporary schools
- Scholastic dialogue in the ancient and romantic traditions
- Classical and Byzantine studies
- Geocriticism
- Adaptation in language and culture
- Polish language and literature around the world