Head of the Department: Dr. Agnieszka Woch, Prof. of the University of Łódź

The department conducts research in the field of Romance and comparative linguistics. The main research directions are:

semantics, lexical semantics

metaphor studies

sociolinguistics (languages of socio-cultural communities)

non-standard varieties of language (colloquial language, jargon, argot, translation of non-standard varieties of language)

linguistic pragmatics (language of the media, Internet, politics, advertising)

persuasiveness, valorisation, appeal to emotions, expression of emotions

linguistic humor

rhetorical theory of argumentative texts

stylistics

cognitive linguistic theories

paremiology and phraseology (contrastive French-Polish studies)

argumentative discourse analysis, new media discourse (2.0), discursive polyphony

praxematic linguistics, discursive stereotypes

linguistic taboos, euphemisation, dysphemisation

specialised languages and terminologies, functional varieties of specialised languages

specialised translation

onimic semantics and pragmatics, proper names in discourse

commercial onomastics

syntax and grammatical morphology in literary translation

Research projects: www.romanistyka.uni.lodz.pl/strefa-pracownika/projekty

Publications: www.romanistyka.uni.lodz.pl/strefa-pracownika/publikacje

Conferences :https://www.romanistyka.uni.lodz.pl/strefa-pracownika/konferencje

Journals: www.romanistyka.uni.lodz.pl/strefa-pracownika/czasopisma

International collaborations: www.romanistyka.uni.lodz.pl/strefa-pracownika/wspolpraca-miedzynarodowa