ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Avina Natalya Yulyanovna Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian Language Methods of Vilnius Pedagogical University

Buras Maria Mikhailovna Journalist, translator, currently general director of the Center for Applied Communications. Author of articles in “Inostranets”, “Russian Journal”, “At the Post”, “Advisor”, etc.; translator of linguistic literature and children's books

Alpatov Vladimir Mikhailovich born in 1945 Doctor of Philology, Professor, Deputy Director of the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences. Author of many books, including: “The History of a Myth: Marr and Marrism” (1991, 2004), “150 Languages ​​and Politics. Sociolinguistic problems of the USSR and the post-Soviet space" (1997, 2000), "History of linguistic teachings" (1998, 1999, 2001, 2005)

Belikov Vladimir Ivanovich born 1950 Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor, Leading Researcher at the Institute of Russian Language named after. V. V. Vinogradov RAS. Publications: “Sociolinguistics” (co-authored with L. P. Krysin, 2001); "Comparison of St. Petersburg with Moscow and other considerations on social lexicography" (2004)

Guseinov Hasan Chingizovich Privat-docent of the University named after. Heinrich Heine, Düsseldorf, Doctor of Cultural Studies

Zhivov Viktor Markovich born 1945 Doctor of Philology, professor. Deputy Director of the Russian Language Institute named after. V.V. Vinogradov RAS and professor at the Department of Slavic Languages ​​and Literatures at the University of California at Berkeley. Publications: “Language and culture in Russia in the 18th century” (1996), “Research in the field of history and prehistory of Russian culture: Collection of articles” (2002), “From the church history of the times of Peter the Great: Research and materials” (2004)

Kirilina Alla Viktorovna Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Laboratory of Gender Studies at Moscow State Linguistic University, Honorary Worker of Higher Professional Education. Publications: “Gender, linguistic aspects” (1999) “Current state of gender research in Russian linguistics” (2003), “Gender research in linguistics and communication theory” (2004)

Krongauz Maxim Anisimovich born in 1958 Doctor of Philology, professor. Director of the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian State University for the Humanities. Publications: “Semiotics, or the ABC of Communication” (1997, co-authored with G. E. Kreidlin), “Prefixes and verbs in the Russian language: Semantic Grammar” (1998), “Semantics” (2001)

Krysin Leonid Petrovich born in 1935 Doctor of Philology, professor. Deputy Director, Head of the Department of Modern Russian Language, Institute of Russian Language. V. V. Vinogradov RAS. Author of the books: “Sociolinguistic aspects of the study of the modern Russian language” (1989), “Russian word, one’s own and someone else’s. Research on the modern Russian language and sociolinguistics" (2004), "Explanatory dictionary of foreign words" (1998, 6th ed. 2005)

Levontina Irina Borisovna Candidate of Philological Sciences, senior researcher at the Institute of Russian Language named after. V.V. Vinogradov RAS, one of the authors of the “New Explanatory Dictionary of Synonyms of the Russian Language”, ed. Yu. D. Apresyan

Milekhina Tatyana Alekseevna Candidate of Philological Sciences, Associate Professor of the Department of Russian Language and Speech Communication, Saratov State University. N. G. Chernyshevsky. Publications: “Speech portrait of a businessman” - “Modern Russian language. Social and functional differentiation" (2003), "Entrepreneur on the television screen" (2003), "How the media portrays the entrepreneur" (2005)

Naidich Larisa Erikovna born in 1947 Candidate of Philological Sciences, senior lecturer at the Department of Linguistics at the Hebrew University (Jerusalem). Author of the books: “Trace in the Sand. Essays on Russian language usage" (1995), "Deutsche Bauern bei St. Petersburg—Leningrad. Dialekte - Brauchtum - Folklore" (1997), "Paul Celan. Materials, research, memories" (compiler and editor, 2004)

Plungyan Vladimir Alexandrovich born in 1960 Doctor of Philological Sciences, Professor; Head of the Typology Sector at the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Moscow). Publications: “Why are languages ​​so different?” (1996; 2nd ed. 2001), “General Morphology: Introduction to Problems” (2000; 2nd ed. 2003)

Semenova Elena Markovna Freelance author. Publications: “Marchen als literarisches Genre. Konzept einer Ausstellung” (2001), “Die fast unbekannte Quelle” (2004), Erstellung eines Thesaurus zum Thema “Sonderausstellungen in deutschen Museen”. Verlag Berlin-Brandenburg, Berlin [in print]

Tomskaya Maria Viktorovna Candidate of Philological Sciences, leading researcher at the Laboratory of Gender Research, Moscow State Linguistic University