Ekaterina Smirnova
Biographic Data
| ID | 1380802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ekaterina Smirnova |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ekaterina |
| FAMILY NAME | Smirnova |
| SIGNATURE | SMIRNOVA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | National Research University Higher School of Economics |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-9307-6773 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Greco-Roman Antiquity in The Library for Reading journal of 1841-1848
The article attempts to identify the characteristics of classical antiquity representation in O.I. Senkovsky’s Library for Reading during 1841–1848 — a time of decline in popularity for the journal and a period of ambiguous perception of the classical heritage in Russian literature. Analysing twenty-four literary and more than thirty scholarly items on Greco-Roman subjects, the study reconstructs Senkovsky’s multifaceted editorial strategy for th…
Clitics in Prosta Mova. The Usage of Pronouns and Particles in 1489 Menaion Reader (Chet’ya-Mineya)
В исследовании дается характеристика поведения клитик в «простой мове». Частица ся в Четье иногда может стоять в ранее невозможной позиции – после неодночленной актантной группы; кроме того, клитика ся рассматривается в Четье в рамках устоявшихся синтаксических клише. В статье также описаны характерные особенности употребления частиц бы и чи (с модальным оттенком значения, близким современным частицам разве, неужели), функционально поменявших син…
Do Formal Stance Strategies Reveal Disciplinary Variation in Professional Scientific Writing
Stance in academic discourse has been extensively studied, with numerous investigations indicating that its expression varies across disciplines, depending on the authors’ intention to either enhance or diminish their voice or presence (e.g., It seems fairly certain vs. This is based on the belief that... ). This paper hypothesises that stance can be viewed as a strictly structural or formal linguistic mechanism in academic discourse, which can o…
Greco-Roman Antiquity in The Library for Reading journal of 1834-1840
The article attempts to identify the characteristics of classical antiquity representation in The Library for Reading journal in the 1830s, when it was the most popular Russian periodical, with its editor Josef Senkovsky being one of the famous writers and eminent scholars. The study draws on 8 literary publications and 24 research papers related to Greco-Roman antiquity. The analysis of literary works accepted for publication by Senkovsky shows …
Western Cinema on the Pages of the Magazine Soviet Screen: 1957–1968
The subject of Western cinematography was presented in a rather limited volume on the pages of the Soviet Screen magazine in 1957-1960.However, with the appointment of film critic Dmitry Pisarevsky (1912Pisarevsky ( -1990) ) to the post of editor-in-chief the "thaw" tendencies in the Soviet screen led to a gradual increase in the number of materials about foreign cinema on the pages of the magazine (sometimes they took up to a third of the total …
Clean room, uncomfortable bed: A corpus analysis of evaluation devices in hotel reviews
Online customer reviews, being an essential factor that determines success or failure in business, in particular in the tourism industry, demand close attention since the investigation of this type of discourse might bear some implications both for language specialists and for hotel managers. This paper is a quantitative and qualitative study of evaluation devices occurring in the corpus of hotel reviews from Booking.com . The analysis is based o…
A History of the Concepts Experience and Experiment in Russian Culture
Why, for a long time, was there no linguistic means to distinguish between the concepts experience and experiment in many European languages, such as Italian, French, and Russian? Was the Russian case influenced by French culture? This article addresses these issues. The most important finding of the study is that no idea of personal experience existed in Russian literature before the second half of the eighteenth century, and the word opyt was l…
Syntactic Complexity of Academic Text: A Corpus Study of Written Production by Learners of English With Russian L1 in Comparison With Expert Texts of English Authors
The paper analyses data of automated evaluation of syntactical complexity of scholarly texts from four comparable corpora – two of expert texts and two of learner texts – in two subject areas. The research applied two different computer tools – UDPipe parser and AntConc set of programs. The following conclusions were made: – Expert scholarly texts demonstrated high clausal and phrasal complexity, and its level was higher in Business Studies than …
Denominal verbs with metaphorical meanings in British business media discourse: A corpus analysis of articles in the “Financial Times”
This study is a corpus-based examination of denominal verbs with figurative meanings in the British business broadsheet The “Financial Times”. Based on the study of word-formation as the source of metaphoricity ( Brdar & Brdar-Szabó, 2013 ; Janda, 2011 , 2014 ; Steen et al., 2010 ) and propositional analysis ( Pankrats, 1992 ; Steen, 2002 ), it presents the classification of such verbs, and discusses how and why denominal verbs with metaphorical …
Noun-incorporation in English as a valency-changing device
Noun-incorporation in English as a valency-changing device
Denominal verbs with metaphorical meanings in British business media discourse: A corpus analysis of articles in the “Financial Times”
This study is a corpus-based examination of denominal verbs with figurative meanings in the British business broadsheet The “Financial Times”. Based on the study of word-formation as the source of metaphoricity ( Brdar & Brdar-Szabó, 2013 ; Janda, 2011 , 2014 ; Steen et al., 2010 ) and propositional analysis ( Pankrats, 1992 ; Steen, 2002 ), it presents the classification of such verbs, and discusses how and why denominal verbs with metaphorical …
Syntactic Complexity of Academic Text: A Corpus Study of Written Production by Learners of English With Russian L1 in Comparison With Expert Texts of English Authors
The paper analyses data of automated evaluation of syntactical complexity of scholarly texts from four comparable corpora – two of expert texts and two of learner texts – in two subject areas. The research applied two different computer tools – UDPipe parser and AntConc set of programs. The following conclusions were made: – Expert scholarly texts demonstrated high clausal and phrasal complexity, and its level was higher in Business Studies than …
Clean room, uncomfortable bed: A corpus analysis of evaluation devices in hotel reviews
Online customer reviews, being an essential factor that determines success or failure in business, in particular in the tourism industry, demand close attention since the investigation of this type of discourse might bear some implications both for language specialists and for hotel managers. This paper is a quantitative and qualitative study of evaluation devices occurring in the corpus of hotel reviews from Booking.com . The analysis is based o…
A History of the Concepts Experience and Experiment in Russian Culture
Why, for a long time, was there no linguistic means to distinguish between the concepts experience and experiment in many European languages, such as Italian, French, and Russian? Was the Russian case influenced by French culture? This article addresses these issues. The most important finding of the study is that no idea of personal experience existed in Russian literature before the second half of the eighteenth century, and the word opyt was l…
Greco-Roman Antiquity in The Library for Reading journal of 1834-1840
The article attempts to identify the characteristics of classical antiquity representation in The Library for Reading journal in the 1830s, when it was the most popular Russian periodical, with its editor Josef Senkovsky being one of the famous writers and eminent scholars. The study draws on 8 literary publications and 24 research papers related to Greco-Roman antiquity. The analysis of literary works accepted for publication by Senkovsky shows …
Western Cinema on the Pages of the Magazine Soviet Screen: 1957–1968
The subject of Western cinematography was presented in a rather limited volume on the pages of the Soviet Screen magazine in 1957-1960.However, with the appointment of film critic Dmitry Pisarevsky (1912Pisarevsky ( -1990) ) to the post of editor-in-chief the "thaw" tendencies in the Soviet screen led to a gradual increase in the number of materials about foreign cinema on the pages of the magazine (sometimes they took up to a third of the total …
Clitics in Prosta Mova. The Usage of Pronouns and Particles in 1489 Menaion Reader (Chet’ya-Mineya)
В исследовании дается характеристика поведения клитик в «простой мове». Частица ся в Четье иногда может стоять в ранее невозможной позиции – после неодночленной актантной группы; кроме того, клитика ся рассматривается в Четье в рамках устоявшихся синтаксических клише. В статье также описаны характерные особенности употребления частиц бы и чи (с модальным оттенком значения, близким современным частицам разве, неужели), функционально поменявших син…
Do Formal Stance Strategies Reveal Disciplinary Variation in Professional Scientific Writing
Stance in academic discourse has been extensively studied, with numerous investigations indicating that its expression varies across disciplines, depending on the authors’ intention to either enhance or diminish their voice or presence (e.g., It seems fairly certain vs. This is based on the belief that... ). This paper hypothesises that stance can be viewed as a strictly structural or formal linguistic mechanism in academic discourse, which can o…
Greco-Roman Antiquity in The Library for Reading journal of 1841-1848
The article attempts to identify the characteristics of classical antiquity representation in O.I. Senkovsky’s Library for Reading during 1841–1848 — a time of decline in popularity for the journal and a period of ambiguous perception of the classical heritage in Russian literature. Analysing twenty-four literary and more than thirty scholarly items on Greco-Roman subjects, the study reconstructs Senkovsky’s multifaceted editorial strategy for th…
Linguistics (7 works) · Philosophy (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Language, Metaphor, and Cognition (3 works) · Natural language processing (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Verb (3 works) · Art (2 works)