Department of Languages and Literature

Contact information

Vienības Street 13-314
Daugavpils, LV-5401, Latvia

Phone: +371 65424238
E-mail: vlk@du.lv

Staff

Research activities

• comparative and juxtapositional linguistics;
• cognitive linguistics;
• language policy from a sociolinguistic perspective;
• translatology and aspects of textual reception;
• North American and British literature;
• literary theory: feminist and gender theories, psychoanalysis, narratology, comparative literary studies;
• phenomenological studies;
• research in German studies, Romance studies and Scandinavian studies;
• contemporary Slavic and comparative linguistics;
• linguistic synchrony and diachrony;
• the study of the artistic text;
• theory and practice of Slavic language learning;
• intercultural communication;
• russian culture in Latvia;
• contacts between Slavic literatures and cultures in theoretical and practical aspects;
• history of Latvian literature and contemporary trends in the context of world literature;
• comparative literary studies;
• folklore and vernacular culture studies;
• regional studies;
• problems of Latgalian culture and Latgalian literature;
• latvian exile literature and culture;
• interdisciplinary cultural studies;
• synchrony and diachrony in language (lexical and grammatical aspects of the Latvian language, dialectal and onomastic studies);
• contrastive linguistics (Latvian-Lithuanian, Latvian-Russian);
• ethnolinguistic attitudes in the borderlands.