Aleksei Shmelev

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I received my M.A. in Structural and Computational Linguistics from Moscow State University (1979) and Ph.D. (kandidatskaja, 1984) and Litt.D. (doktorskaja, 1995) from Russian Linguistics from Moscow Pedagogical State University. I am now the head of a department at the Institute of Russian Language of Russian Academy of Sciences and full professor of Russian Linguistics at the Philological Department of Moscow State Pedagogical University.

I have lectured in Russian linguistics at many universities all over the world. I worked as a visiting professor at the University of Italian Switzerland (Lugano, Switzerland), the Economic University of Vienna (Austria), University of Tampere (Finland), Texas Tech University (Lubbock, Texas) and University of Sorbonne (Paris, France).

I am the author of three books (Referencial'nye mexanizmy russkogo jazyka [Referential Mechanisms of Russian], Tampere, 1996; Russkaja jazykovaja model' mira [Russian Linguistic Model of the World], Moscow, 2002; Russkij jazyk i vnejazykovaja dejstvitel'nost' [Russian Language and Extra-linguistic Reality], Moscow, 2002) and have co-authored 10 books (including Jazykovaja konceptualizacija mira [Linguistic Conceptualization of the World], Moscow, 1997; Lekcii po russkoj aspektologii [Lectures on Russian Aspectology], Munich, 1997; Russkij anekdot: tekst i rechevoj zhanr [Russian Joke: Text and Speech Genre] Moscow, 2002) as well as over 200 other publications (papers, contributions to various collections, etc.). My books and articles have dealt with linguistic and semantic theory and their applications, referential semantics of Russian, key-concepts of Russian culture, manipulation in Russian political discourse and cross-cultural communication.

In my spare time I enjoy reading, talking, telling jokes, and playing chess.