Dr Anna Gladkova

Lecturer, School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences
Contact
| Email: | anna.gladkova@une.edu.au |
Anna Gladkova is a Lecturer in Linguistics at the School of Behavioural, Cognitive and Social Sciences at the UNE. She joined BCSS in 2009. She received her PhD degree at the Australian National University in 2008. Her thesis title was "Russian emotions, attitudes and values: Selected topics in cultural semantics".
Research interests
Anna Gladkova's research interests are in semantics, cross-cultural communication, and bilingualism.
Current Research Projects and Collaboration
Corpus of language and nature (CLAN Project, www.clancorpus.net) funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science.
Publications
Forthcoming. Universals and specifics of 'time' in Russian. In Filipovic, L. and K. Jaszczolt (eds.) Space and Time across Languages and Cultures. Vol. II: Language, Culture and Cognition. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Forthcoming. Propositional attitudes and cultural scripts. In Capone, A., F. Lo Piparo, M. Carapezza (eds.) Perspectives on pragmatics and philosophy. Springer.
In press. Cultural variation in language use. In Aijmer, K. and G. Andersen (Eds.) Pragmatics of Society. Vol. 5 of series Handbooks of Pragmatics. Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter. 567-588.
In press. Grammar and the Influence of Society and Culture. In Chapelle, C. (Eds.) Encyclopedia of Applied Linguistics. Wiley-Blackwell.2011. Tolerantnost' po-russki, ili O sud'be odnogo zaimstvovanija. [Tolerance Russian way: the story of a borrowing]. In Fedorova, L. (ed.) Konflikt v jazyke i kommunikacii [Conflict in Language and Communication]. Moscow. 256-270.
2010. Russkaja kul’turnaja semantika: ėmocii, cennosti, žiznennye ustanovki [Russian cultural semantics: emotions, values, attitudes.] Moscow: Languages of Slavic Cultures. (in Russian)
2010. ‘Sympathy’, ‘compassion’, and ‘empathy’ in English and Russian: A linguistic and cultural analysis. Culture & Psychology. 16 (2): 267-285.
2010. A linguist’s view of ‘pride’. Emotion Review 2 (2): 178-179.2009. K voprosu o semantičeskom statuse glagola sčitat’ [About the semantic status of the verb schitat’]. Russkij jazyk v naučnom osveščenii. 17 (1): 201-227. (in Russian)
2009. Semantic feature. In Matsumoto, David (Ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 482-3.
2009. Semantics. In Matsumoto, David (Ed.) Cambridge Dictionary of Psychology. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 483.2008. Tolerance: New and traditional values in Russian in comparison with English. In Goddard, Cliff (Ed.) Cross-Linguistic Semantics. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 301-329.
2008. The concept of ‘frankness’ in Russian and English linguistic world-views. In Arutjunova, Nina (Ed.). Logical analysis of language. Between lie and fantasy. Moscow: Indrik. 502-514. (in Russian)
2007. New and traditional emotion terms in Russian: Semantics and culture. Transcultural Studies: A Series in Interdisciplinary Research. 2-3. 123-137.
2007. The journey of self-discovery in another language. In Besemeres, Mary and Anna Wierzbicka (Eds.) Translating lives: Living with two languages and cultures. St. Lucia: University of Queensland Press. 139-149.
2007. Universal and language-specific aspects of “propositional attitudes”: Russian vs. English. In Schalley, A. and Khlentzos, D. (Eds.) Mental States. Vol. 2: Language and Cognitive Structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins. 61-83.
2006. Russian praise words molodec and umnica: A semantic and cultural analysis. In Keith Allan (Ed.), Selected papers from the 2005 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society. http://www.als.asn.au
2005. Sočuvstvie and sostradanie: a semantic study of two Russian emotions. The Natural Semantic Metalanguage Approach. Lidil. Special issue “Sémantique des noms et adjectifs d’émotion” edited by Grossmann, Francis and Agnès Tutin. 32. 35-47.
2005. In what ways the Russian sopereživanie is different from the English empathy? The natural semantic metalanguage in contrastive semantics. In Kobozeva, I., Nariniani, A., Selegej, V. (Eds.). Proceedings of the Conference “Dialog-2005: Computational linguistics and intellectual technologies”. Moscow: Nauka. 102-108. (in Russian) http://www.dialog-21.ru/materials/?id=56282
2005. New and Traditional Values in Contemporary Russian. Natural Semantic Metalanguage in Cross-cultural Semantics. In Ilana Mushin (Ed.), Proceedings of the 2004 Conference of the Australian Linguistics Society. http://www.als.asn.au/
2003. The semantics of nicknames of the American Presidents. In Peter Collins and Mengistu Amberber (Eds.) Proceedings of the 2002 Conference of the Australian Linguistic Society http://www.als.asn.au/
Research Projects Supervised
Current
Sophia Waters, PhD thesis, The cultural semanitcs of sociality terms from Australian English with contrastive reference to French; principal supervisor
Sany Habib, PhD thesis, Contrastive lexical-conceptual analysis of folk religious concepts in English, Arabic and Hebrew; co-supervisor
Completed
Carsten Levisen, PhD cum laude (2011), The Danish Universe of Meaning: Semantics, Cognition and Cultural Values; co-supervisor
Michael Roberts, MA Hons (2011), The Lexical Semantics of Social Categories: Demonyms and Occupation Words in English; co-supervisor
