Fields of interests: cognitive linguistics, contrastive linguistics, discourse analysis, frame semantics, conceptual metaphor, argumentative topoi, ethnolinguistics
Current research: ethnolinguistic and framebased analysis of a discourse, including evaluating concepts in German, Polish, English
International cooperation: membership of IVG (International Association for Germanic Studies), fellowship of SGP (Bielefeld) and DAAD (FU Berlin), current participation in the international project EUROJOS
Education and work experience
3.02.2025 - full professor
2013-2018, 2020 – 2025 - associate professor, John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin, German philology
2010 - habilitation in linguistics, habilitation thesis „Deutsche und polnische Präpositionen. Ein Vergleich aus monosemantischer Sicht“
2001- 2013 assistant professor
2001- PhD in linguistics, Catholic University of Lublin, doctoral thesis: „Deutsche und polnische Modalpartikeln und ihre Äquivalenzbeziehungen“
1992-2001- research associate at Catholic University of Lublin, German philology
1992- MA in linguistics, Syntaktische Typen von Aufforderungssprechakten
1991-1992 - one semester studies in German philology/ linguistics at University Bielefeld/German
1987-1992- MA studies in German philology at the Catholic University of Lublin
Functions and membership
2011 – up to now - head of the Department of German Studies Linguistics
2010 – up to now- member of IVG (International Association for Germanic Studies),
2006 – up to now- member of SGP (Verband Polnischer Germanisten)
2008-2010 - examiner in the PhD procedures – German as a foreign language; at the Faculty of Theology, at the John Paul II Catholic University of Lublin