Alexander Kravchenko (linguist)

Alexander Kravchenko (born 1955) is a Russian Cognitive Linguist and Professor at Baikal National University of Economics and Law (BNUEL), where he heads the Department of Foreign Languages.[1] He is one of the founding researchers of the Distributed Language Group.

Biography

Alexander Kravchenko received his Ph.D. in English Linguistics from St-Petersburg State University in 1987 and his Ph.D. Habilitat from the Institute of Linguistics of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1995 with the thesis Principles of a Theory of Indexicality.

Prior to taking his position at BNUEL in 2000, he spent 22 years teaching TEFL and Linguistics courses at a linguistics university, where he also headed the Cognitive Linguistics Lab from 1995 to 2000. His research interests include biology of cognition, biocognitive philosophy of language, (bio)semiotics, cognitive grammar, applied cognitive linguistics (TEFL).

Publications

Kravchenko published several monographs and edited volumes and over 80 articles in Russian and English.

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Articles

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