Bożena Ostromęcka-Frączak: The Linguistic Connection between Poland and Slovenia

Abstract

A large part of the life and achievements of Bożena Ostromęcka-Frączak – a linguist at the University of Łódź’s Faculty of Arts and the head of the newly founded Department of Applied and Cultural Linguistics – is connected with Slovenia, especially with the University of Ljubljana’s Faculty of Arts. In addition to Polish-Russian linguistic and cultural contact, she also studies Polish-Slovenian contact. Among other accomplishments, she is a coauthor of a Slovenian-Polish dictionary and a court interpreter for Slovenian. Her professorial achievements in the teaching of Polish as a second/foreign language and Polish morphology are significant. For her latest monograph on the history of Slovenian lexicography, in October 2008 she received an award from the chancellor of the University of Łódź for achievement in research.