Lara Ryazanova-Clarke

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Lara Ryazanova-Clarke is a Senior Lecturer and Head of Russian in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh. She received her PhD from Strathclyde University and since 1992, she has been teaching Russian language, culture and literature at the University of Edinburgh. She has numerous publications in the field of post-Soviet social and cultural changes as manifested in the Russian language and discourse. Since 2000, Lara Ryazanova-Clarke has been a Fellow of The Institute of Linguists. She is Convener of The Research Centre for the Study of Russian in Context (RiC). RiC is an internationally recognised hub leading research activities in the field of Russian language and society and has received the highest evaluation by the Research Assessment Exercise-2008.

Areas of research interest: Russian Language studies, especially the interface between language and social and cultural issues; discourse and critical discourse analysis, sociolinguistics, linguistic anthropology, cognitive approach to Russian.

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Publications

Books and contributions to books

Nad Strokoi Pisatelia.  Leningrad: LGPI U.P., 1985.

Collins Russian-English English-Russian Dictionary (a main contributor), Glasgow: Harper Collins Publishers, 1994.

“Rush Hour”. Stylistic features of a Russian interview programme”, Orality, Literacy and Modem Media, ed. by D. Scheunemann, Columbia: Camden House, 1996.

The Russian Language Today (with T. Wade), Routledge, 1999.

“Elements of persuasion in the language of Russian television advertising”, in Dunn, J. (ed.), Language and Society in Post-Communist Europe, Basingstoke: Macmillan Press Ltd, 1999.

Collins Russian Dictionary. Second Edition. Glasgow: HarperCollins Publishers, 2000.

‘Fictionalisation of the narrative in Russian newspaper crime reporting’, in Reid, E. (ed.) Edinburgh Essays on Russia. Celebrating 50 Years of Russian Studies, Nottingham: Astra Press, 2000.

“Словообразовательный аспект оценочного речевого воздействия в идеологически-ориентированном дискурсе”, in Swetlana Mengel (ed) Slavische Wortbildung: Semantik und Kombinatorik. Münster –Hamburg – Berlin – London: Lit Verlag, 2002.

“Developments in the Russian Language in the Post-Soviet Period”, in Fawn, R., White, S. Russia After Communism. London: Frank Cass, 2002.

     “The Crystallization of Structures”: Linguistic Culture in Putin’s Russia”, in: Ingunn Lunde and Tine Roesen (eds), Landslide of the Norm: Language Culture in Post-Soviet Russia. Slavica Bergensia, 6. Bergen, 2006.

“ Слово о Полку Игореве” и “Задонщина”: в поисках метакоммуникативного перевода”, Mironesko-Belova, Elena (ed.) Literatura Rusa Medieval. Perspectivas Actuales. Universidad de Granada, 2007.

 “ Putin’s Nation: Discursive Construction of National Identity in Direct Line with President”, А. Мустайоки, М. Копотев, et. al., Инструментарий русистики: корпусные подходы. Slavica Helsingiensia 34. Helsinki, 2008.

“What’s in a Foreign Word: Negotiating Linguistic Culture on Russian Radio programmes about Language”, in: Birgit Beumers, Stephen Hutchings, and Natalia Rulyova. (eds). The Post-Soviet Russian Media: Conflicting Signals, Routledge, 2008.

   “On Constructing Perestroika: Mikhail Gorbachev as an Agent of Linguistic Heresy”, Andrews, E. (ed.) Linguistic Changes in Post-Communist Eastern Europe and Eurasia. Columbia University Press 2008.


Articles

1992. Моделирование семантики эмоционально-оценочного слова в учебных целях. In: Gertsenovskie Chteniia. St. Petersburg: Herzen University U.P.
1994. Место и роль несобственно-прямой речи в рассказе Чехова “Анна на шее” Rusistika 9.

1994. Использование проектной работы на занятиях по русскому языку в университетском курсе.  in Problemy intensivnogo obucheniia nerodnym iazykam, St Peterburg.

1994. Прагматическая область тезаурусов контактирующих языков и инференционные своиства ее единиц - in: Russkil iazyk i literatura v sovremennom dialoge kul'tur. VIII Mezhdunarodnyi Kongress MAPRYAL. Regensburg.

1995. Ab initio as a stepping stone to all-round competence in Russian, in: Russian Language Learning: Past, Present and Future, R.M. Cleminson (ed). Portsmouth: The University of Portsmouth.

1996. The development of the advertising genre on Russian television, in: The Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Scottish Society for Russian and East European Studies. 1996. Glasgow.

1996. A method of project work in a University Russian course’, Rusistika 14, December.

1998. Элементы таблоидного стиля в языке российской посткоммунистической прессы (на материале газетной криминальной хроники),  Russistik (Germany), 1-2.

1998. Динамика частного и общественного в языке средств массовой информации посткоммунистического времени”, in Ruzek, J. Et al. (ed.) XII Miedzynarodowy Kongres Slawistow. Krakow 27.VIII–2.IX 1998. Streszczenia referatow i kommunikatow. Jezykoznawstwo. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo Energeia.

1999. Advertising on Russian television: cross-cultural battle or cross-cultural communication?”, Slavic Almanac. The South African Year Book for Slavic, Central and East European Studies, Vol.5/ Numbers 7-8.

1999. Elements of persuasion in the language of Russian television advertising, in Dunn, J. (ed.), Language and Society in Post-Communist Europe, Basingstoke: Macmillan Press Ltd.

1999. Интертекстуальные аспекты криминального дискурса”, in Russkii Iazyk, Literatura i Kul’tura na Rubezhe Vekov II. XI Mezhdunadornyi Kogress MAPRIAL. Tezisy dokladov i soobshchenii. Bratislava: Mezhdunarodnaia assotsiatsiia prepodavatelei russkogo iazyka i literatury.

2000. Subversion of power in the language of Russian media, in Sinisalo-Katajisto, P., Fryer, P. (eds.) VI World Congress for Central and East European Studies. Helsinki: International Council for Central and East European Studies.

2000. The Dichotomy of Totalitarian and Post-totalitarian in the Language of Russian Public Discourse (1990s)”, Essays in Poetics Autumn 2000.

2002. Developments in the Russian Language in the Post-Soviet Period, The Journal of Communist Studies and Transition Politics, vol.18. No. 1. March 2002.

2003. Imagery of criminal activity in the Russian political discourse, in 8th International Cognitive Linguists Conference: cognitive Linguistics, Functionalism, Discourse Studies: Common Grounds and New Directions. University of La Rioja, Logrono.

2004. Criminal rhetoric in Russian political discours’, in: Uquero Gervilla, E.F, and Salmerón Vílchez, A. (eds). III Jonadas Andaluzas de Eslavistica. Granada.

2005. Towards Ideological Auto-translation: translation of ideological metaphorical markers in bilingual newspapers, University Translation Studies (Universitetskoe perevodovedenie), Sankt-Peterburg: Filologicheskii fakul’tet Sankt-Peterburgskogo universiteta.

2005. Problems of Language Culture in Post-Soviet Russia, in Bremer T. et.al (eds), ICCEES World Congress “Europe – Our Common Home?”, Berlin, July 25-30, 2005. GmbH: Berliner Wissenschafts-Verlag, 2005.

2005. Criminal rhetoric in Russian political discourse, Language Design, Vol.6.

2005. Kriminal’naia metafora v rossiiskom publichnom diskurse, Simon Jose Suarez Cuadras, Enrike Javier Vercher Garcia, et al. (eds.), La Slavistica en los Comienzos del Siglo XXI. III Journades Andaluzias de Eslavistica. Granada, 2005.

2006. The State Turning to Language: Power and Identity in Russian Language Policy Today, Russian Language Journal 56.

     “Derivation in the service of ideology: a case study of the Russian media”, Mundo Eslavo, 2007, No. 6.

     “Re-creation of the Nation: Orthodox and Heterodox Discourses in Post-Soviet Russia”, Scando-Slavica, Vol. 54, 2008.

“On the Satirical Counter-Discourse of Processed Cheese”, Russian Language Journal, 2008.

“The path and building metaphors in the speeches of Vladimir Putin: back to the future?” (with Nelya Koteyko), Slavonica, 2009. (forthcoming)

 

Reviews

1996. Modern Russian. An Advanced Grammar Course, by Derek Offord. Bristol Classical Press, 1993, Rusistika, June.

2003. Iazyki Narodov Severa v XX Veke: Ocherki iazykovogo sdviga (Languages of the Peoples of the North in the XX Century: Essays on the Language shift), N.V. Vakhtin., in: Current Issues in Language Planning, vol.3:3.

2003. Mikhail Kuzmin: A Life in Art. By John Malmstad and Nikolay Bogomolov (Cambridge and London: Harvard University Press, 1999), The European Legacy, vol.8, no. 5, 2003.

2004. Michael S., Gorham, Speaking in Soviet Tongues: Language Culture and Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia (Illinois: Northern Illinois University Press, 2003), Slavonica, Autumn.

2005. Elena Mironesko-Belova: Istoriia russkoi leksikografii IXX veka’. Barcelona, 2003. Language Design, Vol .6.

2006. Thomas Seifrid, The Word Made Self. Russian Writings on Language, 1860-1930. (Ithaca and London, Cornell University Press, 2005)’, in Slavonica.