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
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. Pragmatic approach to particular examples of language usage allows to evaluate them in terms of their adequacy to situation and statement aesthetics as well as effectiveness of the act of communication.
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).
1. Defining the process of political communication. 2. Development of research on political communication in selected countries (mainly Poland and Russia). 3. Study of the genres of political statements. 4. Polish and Russian political imagery. 5. Internet - a new plane of political communication. 6. The role of the media in political communication - mediatisation of election campaigns, contemporary electoral communication. The role of pseudo-events in running an election campaign. Analysis of selected election campaigns in Poland and Russia. 7.
The Border Studies Research Group at the University of Gdansk is an interdisciplinary group of scholars from fields of linguistics, literary studies and theory, history, performance arts, and sociology who share a common interest in the subject of border studies not only in the field's usual connotation signifying a focus on regional, socio- and geo-political issues but also in the broadest of senses which encompasses but is not limited to literary theory, history and emigration studies, spectrality and liminality, intercultural and transnational studies, performance studies,
The research focuses on Greek inscriptions from the Greek cities in Asia Minor in hellenistic times and after, as well as on systematic commenting and issuing of Latin inscriptions from area of Gdańsk Pomerania, Warmia and Mazury.
The aim of the research group is to create a platform for specialists whose research contributes to deepening knowledge about the ways of effective linguistic interaction in various types of discourse, especially scientific-didactic and on-line, in both national and intercultural communication.
Main research interests:
• nature of language behaviour in various social situations ;
• relationship between language changes and social changes, between language varieties and social groups;
• types of linguistic behaviour in various communicative situations depending on age, gender, social roles, profession, etc .;
• communication pragmatics;