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During the 2001-2002 academic year, Lilia Timofeeva was a visiting research professor at The George Washington University, affiliated with the Research Program in Social and Organizational Learning. Her stay in the USA was supported by the Junior Faculty Development Program, which is funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. Lilia Timofeeva is an associate professor at St. Petersburg State Technical University and an adjunct faculty member at St. Petersburg State University. She teaches English for Russian students of law and economics. Her research interests lie in the field of linguistics: language perception, cross-cultural differences in communication, stylistics, and discourse analysis. In June 2001 Lilia Timofeeva successfully defended her dissertation, “Court Chronicles in the American Press: Genre and its Language,” at St. Petersburg State University where she completed post-graduate studies in philology. She graduated from Kursk State Pedagogical University in 1994 with an MA in English and German. Before coming to St. Petersburg, she worked as an associate professor in Kursk State Technical University. Publications: “Language of Law in American Newspapers,” Thesis reports of International Applied Science Conference, Kursk, 1998. “Legal Terms in the Genre ‘Court Chronicles’ in the American Press,” Abstracts of XXX Inter Universities Science- Methodology Conference of Teachers and Post-graduate Students, St. Petersburg, 2001. “Extralinguistic peculiarities of the genre ‘court chronicles’,” Questions of Philology, #7, 2001, St. Petersburg. (All publications are in Russian.) |
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