What do people do with language, and what does language do to us? This question recurs throughout my research, from political discourse to the sociolinguistics of language practices.
I am interested in language not only as a system, but above all as a tool for social action. We use it to describe reality, but also to interpret it, evaluate it, co-create it, build relationships, persuade, express emotions, give orders, construct identities, negotiate meanings…
Hence, my research interests have long centred on rhetoric, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, text linguistics and discourse analysis. I am particularly interested in persuasive discourse and the relationships between language, emotion, identity and the body.
Rhetoric
Sociolinguistics
Pragmatics
Discourse Analysis
Text Linguistics
Translation and Interpreting Studies
One of the main areas of my research is rhetoric and the effectiveness of persuasive discourse.
My doctoral thesis, completed under joint supervision at the University of Warsaw and Université Paris Cité, focused on Nicolas Sarkozy’s hegemonic political discourse. I analysed the role of pathos and rhetorical figures as discursive strategies for eliciting emotions and enhancing persuasive effectiveness.
It was my research into political discourse that led me to a broader question about the communicative mechanisms of persuasion and the ways in which relationships between speakers and audiences are constructed.
presidential speeches
words analysed
In my later research, my interests shifted towards the sociolinguistics of language practices and discourses related to the body, sexuality and identity.
I analyse French- and English-language external pornographic discourse, focusing, among other things, on its vocabulary, metaphors, mechanisms of evaluation and persuasion, and the ways in which the body and identity are constructed through language.
At first glance, this may seem a world away from political discourse. Yet the two are connected by the same underlying interest: the ways in which we use language to create particular images of the world and of human beings, and seek to influence how they are perceived by an audience.
languages represented in the corpora analysed
publications in this field
My research journey actually began with conference interpreting.
My Master’s thesis focused on two-stage simultaneous interpreting, or relay interpreting, and was based upon a study conducted among professional interpreters using this technique in Poland and Belgium. I analysed the specific features of this communicative setting involving a pivot interpreter, the relationships between the participants in the process, and quality criteria such as clarity of delivery, time lag and awareness of the difficulty of the task.
Research into translation and interpreting, together with my own practice as an interpreter, remains an important point of reference in the way I think about how meaning is created, interpreted and conveyed across languages, people and cultures.
countries included in the study
working languages
Chapter in: Des marges mises en mots, edited by A. Gensane, L’Harmattan, 2026
Paper, Crossroads. A Journal of English Studies, 45, 2024, pp. 25–40
Full list of publications and research activities: ORCID 0000-0002-1209-4142
I completed my doctoral thesis under a cotutelle agreement between the University of Warsaw and Université Paris Diderot Paris 7, supervised by Professor Alicja Kacprzak and Professor Agnès Celle. I was awarded a doctorate in linguistics by the University of Warsaw and a doctorate in theoretical, descriptive and computational linguistics in France. I am currently working towards my habilitation.
As an Assistant Professor at the Institute of Applied Linguistics, University of Warsaw, I teach courses in communicative competence, public speaking, and simultaneous and consecutive interpreting.
And this is precisely where, for me, academia meets professional practice.
France, 2026, Section 07 Language Sciences
Academic qualification in Language Sciences, granting eligibility to apply for maître de conférences positions at French universities.
