Research fields and areas

Institute of Linguistics, University of Opole The Institute of Linguistics was established in 2019 following a reorganisation of the university’s structures. Its mission is to conduct comprehensive research into language and its role in culture and society. The Institute of Linguistics comprises eight departments:

• Department of English Language Acquisition
• Department of English
• Department of French
• Department of German
• Department of Polish
• Department of Slavic Languages
• Department of Speech and Language Therapy
• Department of Cultural and Religious Studies.

Each department conducts research in different areas, and their staff collaborate with one another, resulting in a rich and interdisciplinary research environment.

Common research interests

Within the Institute of Linguistics, the individual departments are involved in a range of joint research projects, covering, among other things, the following topics:

1. Stylistics, pragmatics and rhetoric – Department of Polish, Department of English, Department of German, Department of French and Department of Slavic Languages.
2. Text linguistics – Department of Polish, Department of German, Department of English and Department of Slavic Languages.
3. Corpus linguistics and lexicography – Department of Polish, Department of English, Department of German and Department of Slavic Languages.
4. Sociolinguistics – Department of German, Department of English Language Acquisition, Department of French and Department of Polish.
5. Phraseology, lexicology and onomastics – Department of Polish Language, Department of Slavic Languages, Department of English Language, Department of Speech Therapy and Department of German Language.
6. Translation Studies and Discourse Analysis – Department of German, Department of English, Department of French, Department of Polish and Department of Slavic Languages.
7. Multilingualism, bilingualism and language policies – Department of German, Department of English Language Acquisition and Department of English.
8. Dialectology, ethnolinguistics and language history – Department of Polish, Department of Speech Therapy, Department of English and Department of German.
9. Practices and cultural heritage – Department of English and Department of Cultural and Religious Studies.
10. Teaching, language teaching, glottodidactics and language acquisition – Department of English Language Acquisition, Department of Speech Therapy, the Department of French, the Department of Polish, the Department of German, the Department of English and the Department of Slavic Languages.
11. Contrastive studies – Department of French, Department of English, Department of German and Department of Slavic Languages.
12. Language of the media, advertising and digital cultures – Department of French, Department of English, Department of German, Department of Slavic Languages and Department of Cultural and Religious Studies.
13. Cultural diversity, minorities and equity education – Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, Department of German, Department of English Language Acquisition and Department of Polish.
14. Phonetics and speech therapy – Department of Speech Therapy, Department of French, Department of English Language Acquisition and Department of German.

Staff at the Institute of Linguistics actively participate in national and international academic bodies, carrying out a variety of research projects. , They also collaborate with international partners on bilateral projects and within the FORTHEM consortium, enabling the development of innovative research activities.

The Institute of Linguistics at the University of Opole is a place where scholarship meets a passion for language, and an interdisciplinary approach to research enables the exploration of linguistic and cultural complexity.