Helen Shelestiuk:
Areas of Research
Born in Ekaterinburg, Urals, Russia. Education: School with the focus on the English language, Urals State Pedagogical University (Ekaterinburg). Research: 1991 - Cand. Sci. degree seeking post-graduate at Kiev Foreign Languages Institute; from 1993 to 1995 took a Candidate degree course at Moscow Pedagogical State University (MPGU), did research in semantics of ancient and poetic symbols. Wrote a thesis for the degree of Candidate of Sciences (Philology) entitled "Semantics of Imagery and Symbol". Candidate of Sciences (Philology) since 1998.
2009 - Doctor of Sciences (Philology), specialized in Psycholinguistics, thesis entitled "Influencing by Speech: Ontological and Methodological Aspects".
Research interests: psycholinguistic aspect of persuasion and suggestion, sociolinguistics, semiotics, semantics, cultural anthropology, hermeneutics.
Affiliations:
In 1996-2002 was on the staff of the English Language Chair at Urals Pedagogical University in Ekaterinburg, taught part-time at Urals State University and Liberal Arts University in Ekaterinburg. Since 1997 - Professor of Linguistics. Since 2002 have full professorship at Chelyabinsk State University. The courses taught: Semiotics, Psycholinguistics, Theory of Text, English Lexicology, Stylistics, Literary Analysis, Theory of Translation, Germanic Philology and the Gothic Language, History of the English Language. Consult undergraduates and graduates in their research papers.