is a Senior Lecturer at the Institute of Applied Linguistics at the University of Warsaw, where she is also the Coordinator of the Russian Studies Section. She holds a Ph.D. in Linguistics, an M.A. in Translation, and an M.A. in Political Sciences. Her current interests are translation studies, poetics, discourse analysis and pragmatics of grammar. She is a member of Poetics and Linguistics Association. E-mail: j.i.piatkowska@uw.edu.pl