Languages and literature

Our research deals with topics linked to the acquisition and use of pragmatic features of language (primarily English) by foreign language learners, as well as breakdown, speed and repair fluency . We have dealt with young language learners, university students and adults, as well as foreign language teachers, focusing on issues such as discourse marker use, fillers, task planning, classroom talk and similar. Another aspect of our research interest is related to interculturalism in SLA, the role of L1 culture in particular.

The Centre for the Study of Correspondence and Diaries (CECJI - EA7289) is a laboratory at the University of Bretagne Occidentale specialising in the publication and study of correspondence, diaries and texts relating to personal literature. Its territorial anchorage also means that it is dedicated to the study of Breton writers in the French language.

Research on Scandinavian drama and theatrical traditions in Scandinavia, combining insights from theatre, literat

Research on colour vocabulary, especially
- colour lexicons of various languages, including, inter alia, Polish, Kashubian, Russian, Croatian, English, Spanish and Chinese;
- fixed expressions with colour terms;
- colour symbolism;
- use of colour terms in various texts, including literature;
- colours from the psycholinguistic and psychological perspectives.
The research group includes four researchers affiliated with the University of Gdańsk and several researchers representing other Polish and foreign academic centres. 

Polish and German literature (from nineteenth century to the present time) related to the so-called Tri-City (Gdańsk, Sopot, Gdynia) and the Pomerania Region.

Beckett Research Group in Gdańsk

Cultural, social and political changes in the broadly defined Northern Europe, the Baltic Sea region and the Arctic. Our research addresses current and past changes taking place in these parts of Europe and the world, includi

The research focuses on Greek, with particular emphasis on Herodotus, Thucydides, Ctesias, Xenophon and Arrian. In addition, is being carried out on Greek texts on specialist topics, e.g medical treaties (Corpus Hippocraticum), trreaties on hunting, horseriding, agriculture and economics, as well as professional literaturę intended for sailors and merchants, i.e. periplus. 

Contemporary media discourse stands out due to function of texts and characteristics of communication situation in which its efficiency and effectiveness becomes the most important. All language choices in communication are subordinated to shaping the public opinion: impact on the recipient, his/her attitude, evaluation, interests, world view.

The Laboratory conducts research in three selected fields of literary studies (anthropology of literature, genology and comparative literature) and culture studies. The subject of scientific interest is the latest Russian literature and its relations with other Eastern Slavic literatures, as well as selected fields of contemporary culture (including cinema and popular culture).