Department of Linguistics

Head of the Department – Maria B. Rarenko

The department’s leadership began with Fedor M. Berezin, followed by Sergey A. Romashko and Emma B. Yakovleva.

Focus of research:

• Identifying new trends and theories within the field of linguistics and exploring different linguistic branches;
• Examining current linguistic trends and theories, such as language and contemporary society, language and migration, language and culture, translation theory and practice;
• Publishing the academic journal “Social and Humanitarian Sciences: Domestic and Foreign Literature, Series 6: Linguistics” (listed by the Higher Attestation Commission and RSCI), which began as an abstracting journal in 1973 and was reformatted in 2021 into an information and analytical journal.

The Department is involved in scientific, informational, and research activities related to linguistics. Its chief objectives include supplying up-to-date scientific information in linguistics to scholars, practicing interpreters and translators, linguists, students, and public sector employees.

The Department focuses on new trends and developments in linguistics both in Russia and internationally, while also offering informational and methodological support for language education. Established in 1973, the Department of Linguistics at INION RAN has a rich history.

Key researchers:

• Evgenia A. Kazak. PhD (Linguistics), Researcher, member of the Editorial Board of the academic journal “Social and Humanitarian sciences: Domestic and foreign literature”. Series 6 “Linguistics”, specialist in sociolinguistics, linguistic variation, language contacts and language conflicts, dialectology.
• Valentina G. Kul’pina. Dr. Sc. (Linguistics), Leading Researcher, Associate Professor, specialist in lexical and grammatical semantics, contrastive studies of lexical classes and their lexical and grammatical peculiarities, cognitive ethnolinguistics, linguistic researches of colour (linguistics of colour), studies of ideological notes (people, work, freedom, goodness), lexicography, terminology studies, linguistic education. 
• Elena O. Oparina. PhD (Linguistics), Senior Researcher, member of the Editorial Board of the academic journal “Social and Humanitarian sciences: Domestic and foreign literature”. Series 6 “Linguistics”, specialist in language and culture, phraseology, polilingualism in contempopary world, polycode texts.
• Maria B. Rarenko. PhD (Linguistics), Leading Researcher, member of the Editorial Board of the academic journal “Social and Humanitarian sciences: Domestic and foreign literature”. Series 6 “Linguistics”, specialist in translation theory and practice, language and culture, polycode texts, language of fiction.

Latest major publications:

Books

• Natural languages in their original territories and beyond them. Moscow: INION, 2024. (in Russian).
• New Regionalism: from traditional forms of dialects to new realities. Moscow: INION, 2024. (in Russian).
• Oparina E.O. The concept of Migration as a basis for understanding and evaluating migration practices in society and culture. Moscow: INION, 2023. (in Russian).
• Speech communication in network structures: Between global and local. Moscow: INION, 2022. (in Russian).
• The Russian language in the modern world. Present and future. Moscow: INION, 2021. (in Russian).
•  English in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and beyond. Moscow: INION, 2020. (in Russian).

The Department regularly organizes scientific conferences, round tables, and seminars on various contemporary issues in linguistics. Among them:

• International Scientific and Practical Conference Globalization and Social Openness as a way to spread multilingualism. 28.11.2024. Moscow. INION RAN.
• III International Scientific and practical conference Linguistic and Cultural aspects of Globalization processes: language capital in the structure of human and cultural capital. 18. 10.2023. Moscow. INION RAN.  
• IV International Scientific and practical conference Linguistic and Cultural aspects of Globalization processes: language capital in the structure of human and cultural capital.29. 10.2024. Moscow. INION RAN.
• All-Russian Scientific and Practical Conference Text and its semantic dominants: conference in memory of Anatoly Ivanovich Novikov (1938 - 2003). 14.11.2023. Moscow. INION RAN.
• All-Russian scientific and practical conference The Second Novikov readings: Content and meaning as a result of understanding the text. 7-8.11.2024. Moscow. INION RAN.

Research projects

       • Human Language capital as a problem of migration linguistics (2022–2024)

• Language capital in the structure of human and cultural capital (2024–2026)