Im Osten viel Neues? Germanistische kontrastive Textlinguistik in Polen – Versuch einer Bilanz

The paper presents an outline of topics under research in contrastive text linguistics in Polish and German studies, the development phases of the discipline in question as well as postulates for the future. It is noticed that Polish specialists in the field of German studies avail themselves in their contrastive research mainly of the specialized literature by German-language (neo-)philologists. They also publish their research results in German thus contributing to the German-language specialized literature. As a consequence Polish text linguists can familiarize themselves with the afore-mentioned research results only to a limited degree. As for the scope of research, in contrastive linguistics one can observe increased focus on the comparison of various text genres as well as a turn towards the analysis of discourse.