| Volgograd State University Department of English Philology 77 Shumilova Ulitsa, kv 70 oksprokh@zmail.ru |
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| During the 1998-1999 academic year, Oksana Prokhvachyova 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 and is administered by the American Council of Teachers of Russian. Her mentor at GW was Professor Christine Melonie.
Oksana Prokhvachyova received her diploma in English philology from Volgograd State University in 1994. She is an English language instructor. Ms. Oksana Prokhvachyova is currently working on a research project which is connected with linguistic realization of cultural values. She is studying the cultural value of privacy in Russian and American cultures and making a comparative analysis of its manifestation in both languages looking more precisely at word semantics and also at such language phenomena as taboos, euphemisms, etiquette, etc.
Her publications include: “The image of ‘private’ space in the language picture of the world (on the basis of Russian and English phraseology). “Privacy as a social-psychological characteristic of human behavior and some methods of its language manifestation.” |
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