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30.jaanuaril kell 16.00 külastab Kommunikatsiooni Instituuti Mira Bergelson loenguga "Russian Communication in Perspective."
Loeng toimub Kommunikatsiooni Instituudi ruumides aadressil Tartu mnt 13. Loengu ja lektori tutvustus: The main focus of this talk is the peculiarities of Russian communication style as determined by the basic cultural values and specific contexts of communication. Russian-Western interaction is viewed as one type of such context both in professional and academic situations. -------------------------------------------------- Mira Bergelson is a professor in the Department of Linguistics and Information Technology, Faculty of Foreign Languages and Regional Studies at Lomonosov Moscow State University (MGU). Her research interests are linguistic aspects of communication, cross-cultural pragmatics, and culture in discourse. Professor Bergelson received her Ph.D. in linguistics from Russian Academy of Sciences for a grammar description of one African language. Her second doctoral dissertation was devoted to the sociocultural pragmatics of communication. Her other fields of expertise are international education and academic exchanges. Mira’s professional experiences are very diverse but always focusing on effective communication, which is a key instrument of management, and on importance of cultural knowledge, which is in the heart of professional communication. Mira has been born and grew up in Moscow where she has always lived except for a few years of studies and research in the US and Germany. She considers herself bicultural and is fluent in Russian and English and speaks basic German and French. She has researched a variety of indigenous languages and cultures of Russia in the Caucasus, Eastern Siberia and Far East. Mira’s experience as trainer and coach includes programmes delivered for a variety of international corporate clients both in Moscow and elsewhere in Europe. |
