Elizaveta A. Smirnova
- Research Fellow: Faculty of Humanities / Learner Corpora Laboratory
- Associate Professor: HSE Campus in Perm / Faculty of Computer Science, Economics, and Social Sciences / School of Foreign Languages
- Programme Academic Supervisor: Foreign Languages and Intercultural Communication in Business
- Elizaveta A. Smirnova has been at HSE University since 2012.
Education, Degrees and Academic Titles
University of Vigo
Perm State University
Thesis Title: Functioning of Verbs with Incorporated Actants
Perm State Pedagogical University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.
Awards and Accomplishments
Young Faculty Support Programme (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2019–2020)
Courses (2024/2025)
- Research Seminar "Corpus Methods in Linguistics" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Management; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2023/2024)
- Business English. Upper-Intermediate - 2 (Optional course; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Business English. Upper-Intermediate-1 (Optional course; 1, 2 module)Rus
- General English. Low-Intermediate - 1 (Optional course; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Mentor's Seminar (Master’s programme; Faculty of Economics; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Corpus Methods in Linguistics" (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Management; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2022/2023)
- Busines English. Upper-Intermediate-1 (Optional course; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Business English. Upper-Intermediate - 2 (Optional course; 3, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2021/2022)
- Safe Living Basics (Bachelor’s programme; Faculty of Management; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
Courses (2020/2021)
- Busines English. Upper-Intermediate-1 (Optional course; 1, 2 module)Rus
- Business English. Upper-Intermediate - 2 (Optional course; 3, 4 module)Rus
- Digital Humanities: Concepts and Approaches (Master’s programme; Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities (Perm); 1 year, 1 module)Rus
- Speaking in Academic Context (Minor; Faculty of Economics, Management, and Business Informatics; 3, 4 module)Rus
Conferences
- 2024
XI Научная конференция преподавателей и сотрудников НИУ ВШЭ-Пермь «Соседи по науке» (Пермь) (Пермь). Presentation: Corpus-based analysis of disciplinary variation in professional academic writing: Implications for EAP/ESP pedagogy
XXI международная научно-практическая конференция «ИНОСТРАННЫЕ ЯЗЫКИ И ЛИТЕРАТУРЫ В КОНТЕКСТЕ КУЛЬТУРЫ» (Пермь). Presentation: Средства снижения категоричности высказывания в точных и гуманитарных науках: Корпусный анализ статей
ICAME45 (Виго). Presentation: Disciplinary variation in the expression of stance: A corpus analysis of research articles in ‘hard’ and ‘soft’ sciences
III симпозиум "Корусная лингвистика и дискурс-анализ" (Пермь). Presentation: Дисциплинарная вариативность и выражение авторской позиции: Корпусный анализ статей
- 2023
X Научная конференция преподавателей и сотрудников НИУ ВШЭ-Пермь «Соседи по науке» (Пермь) (Пермь). Presentation: Риторическая структура в советских агитационных материалах: корпусный анализ брошюр для переселенцев 1950-60-х годов
14th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC 2023) (Овьедо). Presentation: Disciplinary variation in academic discourse: A multidimensional analysis of research papers in 'hard' and 'soft' sciences
II симпозиум по корпусной лингвистике (Пермь). Presentation: Академическая письменная речь профессиональных авторов и учащихся: многомерный анализ
- 2022
IX Научная конференция преподавателей и сотрудников НИУ ВШЭ-Пермь «Соседи по науке» (Пермь). Presentation: Phrasal complexity of spoken academic discourse: A corpus analysis of L1 Russian and L1 English students’ conference talks
Межкампусный симпозиум "Корпусная лингвистика и исследование академического дискурса: опыт НИУ ВШЭ" (Пермь). Presentation: Языковой репертуар точных и гуманитарных дисциплин: многомерный анализ корпуса статей, опубликованных в ведущих научных журналах
- 2021
12th International Conference on Corpus Linguistics (CILC 2021) (Мадрид). Presentation: A corpus-based analysis of clausal complexity in experts’ and learners’ academic texts: A case study of business studies and economics
VIII Научная конференция преподавателей и сотрудников НИУ ВШЭ-Пермь «Соседи по науке» (Пермь). Presentation: Terminology of migration studies: A corpus analysis of research papers in Social sciences.
VIII Научная конференция преподавателей и сотрудников НИУ ВШЭ-Пермь «Соседи по науке» (Пермь). Presentation: Syntactic complexity of L2 academic writing and its correlation with grammatical accuracy
International Workshop «Computational Linguistics» - CompLing-2021 (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Disciplinary Variation in Syntactic Complexity: A Corpus Analysis of Professional Academic Writing
- 2020
Соседи по науке (Пермь). Presentation: Инструменты для автоматического анализа сложности текста: проблемы и перспективы
Соседи по науке (Пермь). Presentation: Discourse Features of Spoken Academic English: Literature Review
The 14th IEEE International Conference AICT (Application of Information and Communication Technologies) 2020 (Ташкент). Presentation: Gender variation in the discourse of online hotel reviews: A corpus-based semantic analysis
- 2019
Соседи по науке (Пермь). Presentation: Denominal verbs in academic discourse: A corpus analysis of hard and soft sciences
- 2018
Научная конференция преподавателей и сотрудников НИУ ВШЭ – Пермь «Соседи по науке» (Пермь). Presentation: Syntactic markers of an academic text: literature review
- 2017
1st International Conference on Corpus Analysis in Academic Discourse (Валенсия). Presentation: Relational and referential coherence of academic texts: a corpus analysis of Russian students’ research papers in management
- 2016
XVII Апрельская международная научная конференция по проблемам развития экономики и общества (Москва). Presentation: Peer effects in higher education: English language learning
Научная конференция преподавателей и сотрудников НИУ ВШЭ - Пермь 《Соседи по науке》 (Пермь). Presentation: Denominal verbs in British business press: a corpus-based analysis
International Conference on Applied Research in Economics iCare 2016 (Колчестер). Presentation: Peer effects: a case study of English language learning in Russian university
International Symposium "Metaphor as Means of Knowledge Communication" (Пермь). Presentation: Denominal verbs with metaphorical meanings in British business media discourse (a corpus-based analysis of articles in «the Financial Times»)
- 2015
Научная конференция преподавателей и сотрудников НИУ ВШЭ – Пермь “Соседи по науке” / “Neighbours in Research” (Пермь). Presentation: Понятие глагольной валентности в отечественной и западной научных парадигмах
Межкультурная коммуникация и профессионально ориентированное обучение иностранным языкам (Минск). Presentation: Валентность как семантико-грамматическая категория
- 2014
Лингвистические чтения 2014. Цикл 10. (Пермь). Presentation: Семантическая роль явления инкорпорации в английском языке
Научная конференция преподавателей и сотрудников НИУ ВШЭ – Пермь “Соседи по науке” / “Neighbours in Research” (Пермь). Presentation: Функционирование глаголов с инкорпорированными актантами в современном английском языке
- 2013
Лингвистические чтения 2013 Цикл 9 (Пермь). Presentation: Непрототипические актанты в валентностной структуре инкорпорантных комплексов
- 2012
Человек и язык. (Пермь). Presentation: Валентностный потенциал глаголов инструментальной семантики
- 2010
Лингвистические чтения – 2010. Цикл 6 (Пермь). Presentation: Непрототипические актанты в валентностной структуре инкорпорантных комплексов
‘The “Neighbours in Research” Conference Has Become a Special Hallmark of HSE University in Perm’
The 10th anniversary scientific conference ‘Neighbours in Research’ was held at HSE University in Perm. This year it received the status of an international event—research was presented by scientists not only from different regions of Russia, but also from Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan. The conference's key concept is interdisciplinarity, and as a result, reports were presented from various branches of science, including economics, linguistics, sociology, law, digital technologies, and neuroscience.
Two Russian Regions Cooperate in Migration Studies as Part of Mirror Labs Project
What does Kaliningrad Oblast, an exclave Russian territory, have in common with Perm Krai, a region in the Urals? How do researchers use digital humanities methods to study migration? Sergei Kornienko, Leading Research Fellow at the Group for Historical Research (HSE University-Perm), heads the Mirror Lab project ‘Migration as a factor of social transformation of Soviet regions during the post-war reconstruction period: an analysis through digital humanities’. In this interview for The HSE LooK, he talks about this collaboration.
Elizaveta Smirnova: "We Prepare Students for International Careers in Big Companies and State Institutions"
In 2021, a new programme "Foreign languages and intercultural communication in business" is opened at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities programme. Head of the programme, Ph.D. in Philology, Associate Professor of the Department of Foreign Languages Elizaveta Smirnova told us how linguistics and intercultural communication are related to business, where graduates will work, how to enter the programme, and why is it worth participating in the iTell conference.
Australian Teacher Trainer James Thomas Conducts Refresher Training Course for HSE Perm Faculty
Last week Australian teacher trainer James Thomas visited HSE Perm at the invitation of Elizaveta Smirnova, Associate Professor of the School of Foreign Languages. From 24 to 27 September, James conducted a refresher training course on “English as a Medium of Instruction” for the HSE Perm faculty.
Elizaveta Smirnova Spoke at International Conference in Valencia
The 1st International Conference on Corpus Analysis in Academic Discourse took place on 22-24 November in Valencia (Spain). HSE-Perm was represented by Elizaveta Smirnova, Associate Professor of the School of Foreign Languages.