Department of Pragmatics of English

The Department of Pragmatics of English has cooperated with the following academic foreign research centres:

• Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics (Nijmegen)
• Utrecht University
• University of Amsterdam
• University of Cagliari (Italy)
• University of Sevilla
• University of Bergen
• Bangor University
• Bielefeld University

• 2016–2018 | Attitudes and emotions across languages: The case of Polish and Romanian, co-funded by Polish Academy of Sciences and Romanian Academy, Principal Investigator: dr hab. Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman, prof. UAM
• 2016–2018 | Psychophysiological correlates of affective language processing in bilinguals, funded by National Science Centre (SONATA 10, 2015/19/D/HS6/00591), Principal Investigator: dr Rafał Jończyk
• 2018–2021 | Bilingualism, emotions, and creativity: The case of Polish and Romanian, co-funded by Polish Academy of Sciences and Romanian Academy, Principal Investigator: dr hab. Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman, prof. UAM
• 2018–2021 | Basic Emotion Terms Catalogue – Polish & English, funded by National Science Centre (SONATA 13, 2017/26/D/HS6/00035), Principal Investigator: dr Halszka Bąk
• 2019–2022 | The influence of mood on semantic processes in bilingualism: An ERP study, funded by National Science Centre (PRELUDIUM 16, 2018/31/N/HS2/00120), Principal Investigator: mgr Marcin Naranowicz
• 2021–2025 | Speak your heart out: Neurophysiological correlates of emotional speech production in bilingualism, funded by National Science Centre (OPUS 19, 2020/37/B/HS6/00610), Principal Investigator: dr Rafał Jończyk
• 2021–2022 | Neurophysiological correlates of mood and novel meaning processing in bilingualism, funded under the Excellence Initiative – Research University project, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (017/02/SNJL/0001), Principal Investigator: mgr Marcin Naranowicz
• 2021–2022 | The role of anticipation in irony processing in the native and non-native language: An electrophysiological study, funded under the Excellence Initiative – Research University project, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (017/02/SNJL/0003), Principal Investigator: mgr Paweł Chełminiak
• 2021–2022 | Moral decision-making: Does language matter?, funded under the Excellence Initiative – Research University project, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań (Study@research, 014/34/UAM/0021), Principal Investigator: mgr Łukasz Putko
• 2021–2024 | Unleashing the Power of Second Language Mastery: Cognitive Foundations of the Foreign Language Effect and Strategic Language Use, funded by Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange (PPN/PRO/2020/1/00006), Principal Investigator: prof. Guillaume Thierry
• 2022–2025 | How language of operation constrains communication of affect: Fundamental neurocognitive insights for a multilingual, emotion-driven, social media-obsessed world, funded by National Science Center (2021/43/B/HS6/00184), Principal Investigator: prof. Guillaume Thierry

The Department of Pragmatics of English offers courses for undergraduate and graduate students and supervises PhD students in the following domains of pragmatic studies:

• social communication and verbal interaction in English
• the pragmatic sources of miscommunication and interpersonal conflict
• conflict talk in social interaction
• the language of social influence (argumentation, persuasion and ideology)
• intercultural communication
• politeness vs. impoliteness in the socio-cultural context
• linguistic semiotics
• theoretical and philosophical pragmatics
• history of pragmatic research
• historical pragmatics of English
• cognitive pragmatics
• experimental pragmatics
• neuropragmatics
• language-affect interface
• communicative heuristics in spontaneous communicative inferencing
• the language of the media and literary pragmatics
• screenwriting and creative pragmatics
• approaches to discourse
• the philosophy of discourse

If you are interested in conducting your doctoral research within the Doctoral School of Languages and Literatures, AMU under the supervision of one of the DPE members, please contact dr hab. Katarzyna Bromberek-Dyzman, prof. UAM.