45th International Philological Research Conference

Plenary session

In 2016, the conference hosts three literature-related discussion platforms, which are arranged as follows:
— reports by the guest speakers,
— reports by the conference speakers, who have applied to take part in the conference by submitting an abstract and a brief overview of the report in time for the deadline,
— discussing the results of the conference during the round-table discussions.

The ’History of Literature’ chronologically traces the history of literature from late 17th to early 21th centuries. It discusses both general and specific issues related to the literature in Russia and abroad in the New Time. It discusses the works of various writers, poetics, rhetoric, topography, textology, relations between Russian and foreign literatures, series of past events in the history of literature, its periods of development, literary movements, genres, and styles. Preferably, in the reports the detailed analysis should be performed in a more general context of the history of literary culture and its key series of events related to the sections, accordingly.

The research area ‘Methodology in Language Teaching’ comprises three sections with a focus on the theory and practice of teaching foreign languages and Russian as a foreign language, in particular, testing in language teaching to adults and school children.

The research area ‘General and Applied Linguistics’ brings together sections with a focus on theoretical and applied linguistics and discusses typologically oriented, comparative, theoretical research and research on specific aspects of linguistics. It welcomes the reports on the following: general linguistics, history of linguistics, psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, phonology, and comparative poetics.

‘Romance and Germanic Philology’ is concerned with history of and current state of affairs in the Romance and Germanic languages, including: grammar, lexicology, phraseology, and theory of translation.

The research area ‘Russian Language’ rounds off the investigations of the history of the Russian language and its current state of affairs carried out on various sources and with various research methods. It welcomes the reports with a focus on general issues of the theory of linguistics of, primarily, Russian language, and detailed research of Russian grammar, lexicology and lexicography, stylistics and standards of speech, dialectology in synchrony and diachrony.

The research area ‘Slavonic Studies’ overarches five sections on full spectrum of current Slavonic studies with a particular focus on Slavonic linguistics and literature studies along with history, ethnography, cultural studies and art studies. Language and culture are regarded in synchrony and diachrony, isolated or in relations to each other, in contrastive aspect, including with the non-Slavonic languages and cultures.

The research area ‘Fedorov readings’ traditionally welcomes scholars who are professionally engaged in theory, history and methodology of translation, which correlates to the fundamental research areas developed at the Department of English Philology and Translation, SPbU. The sections discusses general issues of theory of translation, applied aspects of translation studies, literary translation, computer-assisted translation tools, inter-language communication, methodology in translation teaching. Presumably, there may be held a round-table discussion on ‘Professiogram of a translator today’.

Other sections