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

2013-2018, 2020 – up to now - 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