Second cycle studies

The programme was designed to fit the requirements of the developing work and academic environment and to provide graduates with solid competences that will make them competitive in the job market. The programme English Studies – Linguistics comprises many disciplines, such as sociology, pedagogy, psychology and communication studies. Modern linguistics researches, among others: the relationship between language and the human brain, diversity of language varieties, the role of language in artificial intelligence systems, communication in traditional and modern media, language change, or translation of texts of many types.

At the start, students select their MA seminar from the available offer. In addition to the MA thesis related classes, students have the opportunity to take courses and monographic lectures in other disciplines, i.e. literature and culture studies.

Students broaden their knowledge of problems within linguistics, such as social and regional varieties of language, multilingualism, communication in a variety of contexts, issues involved in translation, corpus and computational linguistics, language modeling for AI, and others. The diploma they receive upon graduation explicitly states that they are specialists in linguistics.

Students also have a chance to get introduced to substantial fundamentals of translation practice, including the translation of literature and of language for specific purposes, and are equipped with soft skills in order to facilitate their successful performance in the job market.       

As an additional option, students may take part in our teacher training programme to obtain qualifications needed to teach English at all levels.

All classes are conducted in English.

This programme is full-time, with teaching days from Monday to Friday. The seat of the Institute is the modern building of the Faculty of Modern Languages at 55 Dobra Street, Warsaw.

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MA Seminars in English Studies - linguistics offered in 2026/27

Ewa Wałaszewska
Linguistic meaning in theory and practice: Selected issues in lexicology, semantics, pragmatics, and sociolinguistics

The aim of the seminar is to investigate the nature of human verbal communication. The seminar seeks to examine the elusive notion of meaning at different levels – words, phrases, sentences and discourse – so as to present and analyse a wide variety of semantic and pragmatic phenomena such as metaphor, metonymy, hyperbole, polysemy, idiomaticity, ambiguity (to mention just a few). Participants may also choose to discuss certain aspects of inclusive language, gender-based language use, political discourse, euphemistic language, the language of advertising, the language of social media, punning, (im)politeness phenomena (e.g. complimenting, offending), etc. The seminar will make available various methods and theoretical approaches, thus making it possible to study selected phenomena from different perspectives, including cross-linguistic comparisons.  

Katarzyna Hryniuk
Learning and teaching English as a Foreign Language - the development of language skills in different age groups 

The seminar covers the following topics: the process of learning and teaching foreign languages to children and adults, developing language skills, literacy in particular, sociolinguistic competence, learning strategies as well as acquiring vocabulary and grammar. During the seminar aspects of teaching and learning will be discussed, such as: motivation, autonomy, using didactic aids and authentic materials, the development of intercultural competence as well as communicative and integrative approaches to teaching foreign languages. Additionally, assessment techniques, individual differences, the role of the mother tongue and its influence on the acquisition of English will be looked at. Forms of work: exercises, reading and analyzing academic texts, presentations and discussions. 

Izabela Szymańska
Translation Studies: Language and Culture - issues of adaptation, creativity and manipulation, audiovisual translation. 

The seminar surveys various areas and tendencies in Translation Studies, showing the interdependence of the linguistic and cultural aspects of translation and translation theory. The discussion of the major topics and approaches in Translation Studies, including the contemporary functional and communicative tendencies, is illustrated with various types of texts and various problems encountered by the translator. Depending on students' interest, we may explore a wide range of issues, including the differences in language systems and cultural systems reflected in translation, particular aspects of texts (cohesion, humour, wordplay, proper names, culturally-loaded concepts), translation strategies and norms, domestication and foreignization, the impact of ideology, adaptation, creativity, manipulation, problems of audiovisual translation.

Romuald Gozdawa-Gołębiowski
English in the Age of Globalisation: Culture - Pedagogy - Translation

The seminar is addressed to students interested in the relationship between language and culture, the role of English in the contemporary world, as well as the cultural dimensions of communication and translation studies. Students involved in foreign language teaching will be able to focus on the application of innovative methodological solutions, ranging from CLIL and EMI to AI-assisted adaptive teaching. The seminar will explore different interpretations of the concept of culture, as well as the manifestations of language in culture and culture in language. MA theses in this area may address, for example, attitudes towards native varieties of English and the cultural norms of their users, communication in global contexts (e.g. Business English) or the ideological dimensions of language use. Participants interested in translation will have the opportunity to analyse cases of (potential) cultural untranslatability and the techniques and strategies appropriate in such contexts. The seminar will also introduce basic tools of descriptive statistics relevant to MA research.

Dariusz Zembrzuski
Phonetics, Phonology, Sociolinguistics, Linguistic Experiments 

The seminar is intended for those interested in the description of the language system, particularly regarding sound profiles and aspects of morphology. The topics covered encompass the domains of sociolinguistics, phonetics, and phonology, from both theoretical and practical perspectives. The seminar discusses not only theoretical approaches but also experimental methods. To prepare participants for the analysis of empirical data, the seminar presents basic tools of descriptive statistics. Students can choose from a wide range of topics: theoretical descriptions of phenomena in standard language variants, language transfer, language acquisition, and the analysis of dialects and specific jargons, not only in Polish or English.