Dorota Piekarczyk

Dorota Piekarczyk is a full Professor at the University of Marie Curie-Skłodowska (UMCS) in Lublin, Poland, affiliated with the Faculty of Languages, Literatures and Cultures. She has served since 2002 and held the position of Deputy Director at the Institute of Polish Philology from 2013-2019.

Her research focuses on the intersections of language and cognition, particularly through semantic analysis, pragmatic frameworks, and linguistic worldview studies. She specializes in paratextual elements of publications, examining how covers, blurbs, and series information shape reader expectations and societal knowledge reception.

The 2020 monograph on book covers represents her most comprehensive work on paratextual analysis. Her recent publications (2020-2019) investigate

• paratextual persuasion techniques
• popular culture integration in science communication
• publisher-reader dynamics

while maintaining long-term contributions to floral categorization studies and cognitive schemata in texts.

Scientific achievements include

• 2014 Prime Minister's Award for 'Metafory metatekstowe'
• ORCID: 0000-0002-8859-7897
• 648 total ministerial points across 12 publications