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cand. phil. Alla Smirnova 09107 Chemnitz, Reichenhainer Str. 39, Zi. 018 Tel.: +49 371 531 982563 E-Mail: smirnova.alla@daad-alumni.de |
Alla Smirnova is a DAAD guest researcher in academic writing.
Short curriculum vitae
I studied English Linguistics at Samara State University, Russia, and later at Saint-Petersburg State University, where I obtained the degree of the Candidate of Philological Sciences (specialization "Germanic Languages") in 2006. Since that time I have been working as a technical translator and interpreter.
Research interests
My research interests include Argumentation Studies, Rhetoric, Academic Discourse, Intercultural Pragmatics, and Discourse Analysis. My current research project focuses on the argumentative patterns used by Russian scholars writing in ELF as manifestations of culture in Academic discourse.
Publications (in English)
| 2010 | Mass Communication in Intercultural Context: Creation of an Image of a Country through Images of its Leaders. Russian Presidents Putin and Medvedev in British Press. In E. Parpala and C. Popescu (eds.) . Comunicare, Identitate, Cultura. Craiova: Editura Universitaria. P. 132-141. |
| 2009 | How to make a quotation credible In E. Weigand (Ed.) Dialogue Analysis XI. Proceedings of the 11th IADA Conference on "Dialogue Analysis and Rhetoric". University of Münster, March 27-30, 2007. Volume 1/09. iada.online.series. P. 409-411. |
| 2009 | Reported speech as an element of argumentative newspaper discourse In DISCOURSE & COMMUNICATION. Vol. 3, No.1. P.79-103. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1750481308098765.Methods in Dialectology XIV London/ON, Canada |
| 2007 | Why do journalists quote other people, or on the functions of reported speech in argumentative newspaper discourse. In Frans H. van Eemeren, J. Anthony Blair, Charles A. Willard, Bart Garssen (eds.) Proceedings of the Sixth Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation. Sic Sat. P. 1305-1309. |
Conference presentations
| Amsterdam 2006 | 6th Conference of the International Society for the Study of Argumentation Craiova: Editura Universitaria. P. 132-141. |
| Münster 2007 | 11th IADA Conference on “Dialogue Analysis and Rhetoric” |
| Wloclawek 2008 | Discourse Approaches to Functional Linguistics, Translation and Foreign Language Teaching |
| Barcelona 2009 | 12th IADA Conference on Dialogue Analysis |
| Limerick 2011 | 4th Language in the Media Conference |
| Plzen 2011 | 13th Ideas That Work Conference |
| Modena 2011 | Tracking Language Change in Specialised and Professional Genres (CLAVIER 11) |