Tamara Ivanova Dotsenko
PhD Linguistics, Research Fellow.
Summary of research interests: psycholinguistics, problems learning the mental lexicon.
Topic of PhD dissertation : Understanding and explanation of syntactic derivatives in speech acts (Leningrad State University 1984).
Larisa Aleksandrovna Belova
PhD Linguistics, Research Fellow.
Main research interests: paleography, historical linguistics, history of the Russian language.
My name is Oksana Gorokhova. I work as a junior member of teaching and research assistant in the department of General Linguistics (Russian Language) at
I am currently competing to study for the kandidat (kandidat’s) research degree. My research supervisor is Tamara Ivanova Dotsenko. My field of research is general linguistics. Current issues in my field of research include the mental lexicon, language change and the language of the media. My research focuses on precedent texts, that is, texts that most Russians know and the cultural value of these texts. I have done several experiments with schoolchildren in order to compile a corpus of these precedent texts. I am trying to find out why and how these particular texts have become so well-known and why people remember them. Some of the latest achievements in this field of research include the discovery of texts that are known to different social groups and texts that are understood in an international context.