(OT) LINGUISTICS

neurolinguistics, Language for Specific Purpose, sociolinguistics, communication, management

La créativité, l'écriture créative, les techniques théâtrales dans l'enseignement/apprentissage des langues étrangères: du français langue étrangère, anglais langue étrangère, espagnole langue étrangère. Nous visons dans le projet de prouver le bienfait de la créativité sur le développement des compétences sociales: l'ouverture ver l'autre, la compréhension de l'autre, le respect de l'autre, l'empathie et sur l'efficacité dans l'apprentissage des langues étrangères dont la finalité est l'autonomie.

Semantic Relationships and Levels of Language
Syntax and Semantics at Subsentential Level
Foreign Language Teaching Methodologies
Lexical Availability, Language Contact and Variation
Lexicography and Phraseography
Terminology and Specialised Languages
Automatic Processing of Language
Text Linguistics
Linguistics of Communication and Types of Languages
Interface between Lexicon and Syntax
Clinical Linguistics
Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis
Applied Linguistics
Linguistic Historiography

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. 

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 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.