Languages and literature

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, and more.

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;

• sociolinguistic variables in didactics.

The group's work is focused on multiple, interdisciplinary approaches to investigation of iconotexts - predominantly picturebooks.

Cahiers ERTA is a platform for scientific exchange on modern and contemporary French literature. Cahiers ERTA was first designed as a series of “Around…” monographs, published as part of the activities of the scientific research group ERTA (research team in applied theory), founded in 2006 by Ewa Wierzbowska, Tomasz Swoboda and Olga Wronska. Two monographs were published in 2008 and 2011.

The new unifying theme of the HCTI-EA 4249 host research team is entitled “Leading lines” (“Lignes de force”). A continuation of the theme of the previous contract, “Power ratios” (“Rapport de force”), this theme also emphasizes relationships to images. Indeed, while “leading lines” is a concept specific to iconography, painting and architecture, it can nevertheless be perfectly applied to the structures of texts and discourse.

The Centre de recherche bretonne et celtique (CRBC) is a multidisciplinary research laboratory whose 43 members (historians, linguists, Anglicists and Celticists, enthnologists, sociologists...) explore topics and areas of research within Breton and Celtic cultural domains. They also lead individual or collective research in other fields, across Europe, the Atlantic and beyond.