Linguist, professor at the Jagiellonian University. In 1987 she defended her doctoral dissertation entitled Expression of temporal relations in a singular sentence in Polish. In 2002 she received her habilitation on the basis of her dissertation Polysemy of Polish prepositions in the light of cognitive semantics, and in 2008 she received the title of professor. Her research interests focus on sociolinguistics, pragmalinguistics and cognitive theory of language. She is a co-author of the Great Dictionary of the Polish Language.