University of Bergen : Faculty of Arts : Dept of Russian Studies

— linguistic liberalisation and literary development in Russia in the 1920s and 1990s

Landslide of the Norm :: People :: Lara Ryazanova-Clarke

Lara Ryazanova-Clarke is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Russian in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh. She graduated in Russian Language and Literature from Herzen Pedagogical University (St Petersburg, Russia) and received a PhD from Strathclyde University (UK). She has taught Russian Language, Literature and Culture at Herzen Pedagogical University (St Petersburg), Strathclyde University, and from 1992 — at the University of Edinburgh. She is the author of numerous articles and book contributions including a co-authored book The Russian Language Today (Routledge, 1999) (with T. Wade). She was also a main contributor to Collins English-Russian, Russian-English Dictionary (Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers, 1994; second edition 2000). Since 2000, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke has been a Fellow of The Institute of Linguists. Areas of research interest: The Russian Language and Culture, Ideology and Identity; Cognitive Approaches to Russian and Russian Metaphoric Studies Developments in Contemporary Russian Language; Stylistics Lexicography and Lexicology.

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Publications

Books

1985. Nad strokok pisatelia, Leningrad: LGPI U.P., 1985 (co-authored).

1994. Collins Russian-English English-Russian Dictionary (a main contributor), Glasgow: Harper Collins Publishers. (second edn 2000)

1999. (with T. Wade) The Russian Language Today, Routledge.

Articles

1992. Моделирование семантики эмоционально-оценочного слова в учебных целях (Modelling of the semantics of a Emotive and Evaluative word for teaching purposes). In: Gertsenovskie Chteniia. St. Petersburg: Herzen University U.P..

1994. Место и роль несобственно-прямой речи в рассказе Чехова “Анна на шее” (The place and role of free indirect speech in Chekhov's story Anna on the Neck), Rusistika 9.

1994. Использование проектной работы на занятиях по русскому языку в университетском курсе (Using the Project Work in the University Russian Language Teaching). - in Problemy intensivnogo obucheniia nerodnym iazykam, St Peterburg.

1994. Прагматическая область тезаурусов контактирующих языков и инференционные своиства ее единиц (“The Pragmatic Area of Thesauri of Languages in Contact and the Properties of Interference which these Elements Possess”). - in: Russkil iazyk i literatura v sovremennom dialoge kul'tur. VIII Mezhdunarodnyi Kongress MAPRYAL. Tezisy dokladov. Regensburg.

1995. Ab initio as a stepping stone to all-round competence in Russian, in: Russian Language Learning: Past, Present and Future, R.M. Cleminson (ed). Portsmouth: The University of Portsmouth.

1996. “Rush Hour”. Stylistic features of a Russian interview programme, Orality, Literacy and Modem Media, ed. by D. Scheunemann, Columbia: Camden House, 1996.

1996. The development of the advertising genre on Russian television, in: The Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Scottish Society for Russian and East European Studies. 1996. Glasgow.

1996. A method of project work in a University Russian course’, Rusistika 14, December.

1998. Элементы таблоидного стиля в языке российской посткоммунистической прессы (на материале газетной криминальной хроники) (‘Elements of the tabloid style in the language of Russian postcommunist press, a case study of newspaper criminal reports’), in Russistik (Germany), 1-2.

1998. Динамика частного и общественного в языке средств массовой информации посткоммунистического времени”, (‘Dynamics of private and public in the language of the Post-communist media’), in Ruzek, J. Et al. (ed.) XII Miedzynarodowy Kongres Slawistow. Krakow 27.VIII–2.IX 1998. Streszczenia referatow i kommunikatow. Jezykoznawstwo. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Energeia.

1999. Advertising on Russian television: cross-cultural battle or cross-cultural communication?”, Slavic Almanac. The South African Year Book for Slavic, Central and East European Studies, Vol.5/ Numbers 7-8.

1999. Elements of persuasion in the language of Russian television advertising, in Dunn, J. (ed.), Language and Society in Post-Communist Europe, Basingstoke: Macmillan Press Ltd.

1999. Интертекстуальные аспекты криминального дискурса” (The intertextuality of the criminal discourse), in Russkii Iazyk, Literatura i Kul’tura na Rubezhe Vekov II. XI Mezhdunadornyi Kogress MAPRIAL. Tezisy dokladov i soobshchenii. Bratislava: Mezhdunarodnaia assotsiatsiia prepodavatelei russkogo iazyka i literatury.

2000. Subversion of power in the language of Russian media, in Sinisalo-Katajisto, P., Fryer, P. (eds.) VI World Congress for Central and East European Studies. Abstracts. Helsinki: International Council for Central and East European Studies.

2000. The Dichotomy of Totalitarian and Post-totalitarian in the Language of Russian Public Discourse (1990s)”, Essays in Poetics Autumn 2000.

2000. Fictionalisation of the narrative in Russian newspaper crime reporting, in Reid, E. (ed.) Edinburgh Essays on Russia. Celebrating 50 Years of Russian Studies, Nottingham: Astra Press.

2002. Словообразовательный аспект оценочного речевого воздействия в идеологически-ориентированном дискурсe, in Swetlana Mengel (ed) Slavische Wortbildung: Semantik und Kombinatorik. Münster –Hamburg – Berlin – London: Lit Verlag.

2002. Developments in the Russian Language in the Post-Soviet Period, in Fawn, R., White, S. Russia After Communism. London: Frank Cass.


2002. Developments in the Russian Language in the Post-Soviet Period, The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, vol.18. No. 1. March 2002.

2003. Imagery of criminal activity in the Russian political discourse, in 8th International Cognitive Linguists Conference: cognitive Linguistics, Functionalism, Discourse Studies: Common Grounds and New Directions. University of La Rioja, Logrono.

2004. Criminal rhetoric in Russian political discours’, in: Uquero Gervilla, E.F, and Salmerón Vílchez, A. (eds). III Jonadas Andaluzas de Eslavistica. Gradana.

2005. Towards Ideological Auto-translation: translation of ideological metaphorical markers in bilingual newspapers, University Translation Studies (Universitetskoe perevodovedenie), Sankt-Peterburg: Filologicheskii fakul’tet Sankt-Peterburgskogo universiteta, pp. 372-389.

2005. Problems of Language Culture in Post-Soviet Russia, in Bremer T. et.al (eds), ICCEES World Congress “Europe – Our Common Home?”, Berlin, July 25-30, 2005. Abstracts. GmbH: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2005, p. 354.

2005. Criminal rhetoric in Russian political discourse, Language Design, Vol.6, pp.141-160.

2005. Kriminal’naia metafora v rossiiskom publichnom diskurse, Simon Jose Suarez Cuadras, Enrike Javier Vercher Garcia, et al. (eds.), La Slavistica en los Comienzos del Siglo XXI. III Journades Andaluzias de Eslavistica. Granada, 2005, pp.191-207.

2006. “The Crystallization of Structures”: Linguistic culture in Putin’s Russia, in Landslide of the Norm: Language Culture in Post-Soviet Russia, (Slavica Bergensia 6) eds. I. Lunde & T. Roesen, Bergen, pp. 31–63.

2006. The State Turning to Language: Power and Identity in Russian Language Policy Today, Russian Language Journal 56, pp. 37-55.

2007. Slovo o polku Igoreve i Zadonshchina: v poiskakh metakommunikativnogo perevoda, Mironesko-Belova, Elena (ed.) Literatura Rusa Medieval. Perspectivas Actuales. Universidad de Granada, 2007, pp.59-76.


Forthcoming

2006. Derivation in the service of ideology: a case study of the Russian media, (to appear in Mundo Eslavo, 2006).

2007. What's in a Foreign Word: Negotiating Linguistic Culture on Russian Radio programmes about Language, in: Beumers, B. and Hutchins, S. (eds). The Mass Media in Post-Soviet Russia, Routledge, 2007.

Reviews

1996. Modern Russian. An Advanced Grammar Course, by Derek Offord. Bristol Classical Press, 1993, Rusistika, June.

2003. Iazyki Narodov Severa v XX Veke: Ocherki iazykovogo sdviga (Languages of the Peoples of the North in the XX Century: Essays on the Language shift), N.V. Vakhtin., in: Current Issues in Language Planning, vol.3:3.

2003. Mikhail Kuzmin: A Life in Art. By John Malmstad and Nikolay Bogomolov (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1999), The European Legacy, vol.8, no. 5, 2003.

2004. Michael S., Gorham, Speaking in Soviet Tongues: Language Culture and Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia (Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003), Slavonica, Autumn.

2005. Elena Mironesko-Belova: Istoriia russkoi leksikografii IXX veka’. Barcelona, 2003. ISBN 84-477-0866-7.’, Language Design, Vol .6, pp.200-202.

2006. Thomas Seifrid, The Word Made Self. Russian Writings on Language, 1860-1930. (Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2005)’, in Slavonica, (forthcoming)

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