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Research conducted at the Institute of Polish Literature

The research conducted at the Institute of Polish Literature is focused on the history and theory of Polish literature and included the following (among others):

Historical-cultural, comparative and editorial research on literature and culture in the periods of Middle Ages, Renaissance, Baroque and Enlightenment,
research (including editorial research) on Polish Romantic literature, its European context and the Romantic inheritance in later literature,
research (including editorial research) on Polish Positivist literature and the literature of the Young Poland movement, including its European context,
research on ancient and biblical traditions in Polish literature and journalism in 1864-1939,
research on the culture of ethnic minorities in Poland,
research on children's and young people's literature,
research (including editorial research) on Polish literature written after 1918 as regards essential literary genres such as the novel, short story, poetry, memoirs, diary, essay, literary critique, and as regards literary currents and trends (avant-garde, postmodernism), thematic currents and complexes (borderland literature),
research on poetics, literary stylistics, literary theory, the history of literary doctrines, the methodology of literary research and other fields such as comparative and cultural literary studies, the theory of interpretation and analysis of a text, philosophy of literature, literary and applied pragmatics,
research on literary communication, the problems of axiology, reading and reception, especially as regards a literary work read at school,
research on the history and theory of rhetoric, especially as regards the history and theory of rhetoric in Poland in the European context, as well as rhetoric applied to research on various aspects of culture and literature, e.g. rhetoric and literature, rhetoric and theatre, rhetoric and film, rhetoric and science-fiction and fantasy, rhetoric in school and university education,
bibliographic research and source research, including cataloguing, registering and describing individual sources,
research on the literary history interpretation and analysis of Renaissance and Baroque occasional and popular literature,
research on Polish and European emblematic art.

Research conducted at the Institute of the Polish Language

The research conducted at the Institute of the Polish Language is focused on synchronic and diachronic linguistics. It includes:

examining processes taking place in the contemporary Polish Language from a normative perspective,
research on the Polish language used in radio and television,
analysing linguistic competence characterising various social groups of contemporary Polish speakers (for example, schoolchildren, teachers, people of Polish origin living abroad),
research on the Polish Sign Language,
constructing a formal grammar of the Polish language (as part of broader research in the field of computational linguistics).
analysing the Polish language from a cognitive perspective (research on grammar and semantics of contemporary Polish).
research on the Polish language spoken abroad (for example, in Ukraine, Lithuania and Byelorussia),
research in the field of the history of Polish, in particular: editing of Old Polish texts for publication and research on etymology,
research on Cyprian Kamil Norwid's language (from semantic and lexicographic perspectives),
logopaedic research, which includes the following issues: stammer, dyslalia, cleft palate and cleft lip.

Research conducted at the Institute of Polish Culture

The research conducted at the Institute of Polish culture concentrates on (broadly understood) cultural anthropology. It includes:

research on the views on culture, mental forms, cultural foundations, linked to reflections on categories such as "modernity", "modernism", "the twentieth century",
research on anthropology of the word, anthropology of literature and on the anthropology-oriented history of Polish culture,
research on the anthropological interpretation of certain phenomena in contemporary culture, with special attention to community differentiations, as well as the sociology of literature, ethnography of a city, anthropology of every-day life, sociology of religious movements and the history of neighbouring cultures,
research on Polish theatrical studies and laboratories, with special attention to "Reduta" [Redoubt] and "Teatr Laboratorium" [Laboratory Theatre], theatre and drama of the Young Poland movement, Polish-German theatrical contacts, oriental inspirations in contemporary theatre, problems of a theatrical legend, Polish theatrical thought after 1945,
research on cultural performative reality, that is on activities performed in the presence of other people, as acts of direct social communication; in particular, it applies to the so-called cultural spectacles, such as ceremonials, sports games, sacrificial rituals, cathartic procedures, celebrations, carnivals, as well as theatre plays and paratheatrical phenomena,
research on anthropological threads in film and audiovisual culture,
research on the history of Polish film culture, analysis of films and the works of the so-called "Polish school", anthropology of picture and representation, analysis of audiovisual media in their socio-cultural context.

Research conducted at the Institute of Classical Studies

The research conducted at the Institute of Classical Studies is centred on Greek, Latin and New Latin literature, the reception of antiquity, scientific editorship, classical languages. In particular, it includes the following issues:

Greek and Byzantine theory of rhetoric,
text critique (evaluating Lachman's method, among others),
research on Greek and Latin Christian literature,
reception of ancient thought in modern literature,
New Latin poetry of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

Two tendencies are evident in the research conducted at the Institute of Classical Studies:

it is broader as compared to traditional classical philology, it also goes beyond the time limit traditionally assumed by classical philologists,
it has an interdisciplinary character and links classical philology to history (including the Church history), art history, theology, philosophy, research on literatures written in national languages, and finally theoretical comparative linguistics.

Research conducted at the Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies

The research conducted at the Institute of Western and Southern Slavic Studies focuses on linguistics, cultural studies and literary studies with respect to Western and Southern Slavdom. It includes, but is not limited to, the following:

research on the Western and Southern Slavonic languages and the relations between them and neighbouring Slavonic and non-Slavonic languages;
research on historical and contemporary diversity within Southern Slavdom, in particular, in Bosnia and Herzegovina, Montenegro, Serbia and Macedonia - research is done from various perspectives and includes: traditional, elitist and mass culture, as well as their influence on folklore and literature;
research on the nineteenth-century origins of various kinds of cultural identity in the Slavonic countries;
research on cultural interaction in the Slavonic countries in the context of contemporary integrative processes.

Research conducted at the Department of General Linguistics and Baltic Studies

Research conducted at the Department of General Linguistics and Baltic Studies is devoted to:

general linguistics, inlcuding the theory of language, linguistc typology, with special attention to East Asian and Romance languages, as well as linguistic contacts. Specific issues include: honorificity, theme-rheme structure, contrastive lexical semantics, the typology of spacial relations, generative syntax, with special reference to the structure of nominal phrases, and theme-rheme structure markers;
Baltic linguistics, including Lithuanian dialectology and onomastics, Baltic-Slavic linguistic contacts, Lithuanian and Latvian lexical semantics, the synchronic and diachronic morphology and syntax of Baltic languages;
literature and culture of the Baltic states, including contemporary Lithuanian and Latvian literature, translatology, poetics and literary theory.