Department of English Linguistics

Research interests & projects

Anthropological Linguistics

Anthropolinguistic Approach to Wargaming (Dr. Mianowski)
Early Writing Systems in Anthropolinguistic Perspective (Dr. Mianowski)
Adaptation of Early Writing Systems In Europe (Dr. Mianowski) 
Metonymy and Cultural Taboos (Dr. Wachowski)  

Applied Linguistics

Linguistic Competence: the Norm and Deficits (Prof. Łukasiewicz)

Cognitive Linguistics

Metonymy in translation of Aristophanes (Dr. Szefliński)
The Role and Importance of Conceptual Metonymy (Dr. Wachowski)
The Multilevel Character of Metonymy and its Interaction with Other Figures of the Mind (Dr. Wachowski)
Metonymy and Cultural Taboos (Dr. Wachowski)
Critical Analysis of the Various Hypotheses Concerning Metonymic Shift (Dr. Wachowski)
Metonymy and Synecdoche - Mother and Daughter or Twin Sisters? (Dr. Wachowski)
The Analysis of the Extra-Linguistic Basis of Contiguity in a Metonymic Relationship (Dr. Wachowski)

Corpus Linguistics

PECII: Parallel European Corpus for Informal Interaction (Dr. Weidner) 

Comparative Linguistics

Okay’ in 13 languages (Dr. Weidner)

Onomastics

A semantic-derivational analysis of the anthroponyms in Aristophanes’ Acharnians and their translations into English and Polish (Dr. Szefliński) 

Pragmatics

On the organization of doctor-patient communication in Polish talk-in-interaction (Dr. Weidner) 

Psycholinguistics

Psychology of Language (Prof. Łukasiewicz)
Language, Thinking and Reality (Prof. Łukasiewicz)

Theoretical Linguistics

Evidentiality and Epistemic Justification of Beliefs (Prof. Łukasiewicz)
Language, Thinking and Reality (Prof. Łukasiewicz) 

Translation Studies

Polish Children’s Literature in English Translation (Prof. Borodo)
Translators’ Discursive Strategies in English Translations of Polish Children’s Literature (Prof. Borodo)
Language, Translation and Globalization (Prof. Borodo)
Metonymy in translation of Aristophanes (Dr. Szefliński)
A semantic-derivational analysis of the anthroponyms in Aristophanes’ Acharnians and their translations into English and Polish (Dr. Szefliński)