Chinese Students-Philologists Successfully Defended Their Theses

16:39, June 19, 2018

Foreign students studied the communicative features of the Russian language

Four postgraduate students from the Chinese People's Republic defended their candidate theses in Philology. These are the first postgraduate students from China studying at UrFU Department of Russian Language, General Linguistics and Speech Communication.

‘The international students’ theses defense is important for Ural Federal University: internationalization is one of the main factors enhancing of the university's global visibility. The number of international students, especially postgraduate ones is an important indicator for international rankings,’ said Irina Vepreva, professor at the Department of the Russian Language, General Linguistics and Speech Communication.

Their works focuse on communicative aspect of Phililogy. For example, the work of Yang Qing (the scientific advisor - Professor Matveeva T.V.) studies interdisciplinary problems of stylistics and linguopragmatics and is devoted to the methods of speech influence in the genre of the lecture. Xu Shanshan (the scientific advisor - Professor Vepreva I.T.) analyzes the language expression of modern gender values on the material of Russian marriage ads. Thesis of Wen Lu (the scientific advisor – Professor Mikhailova O.A.) contains an interpretation of the speech behavior of the individual according to the Russian phraseology. Wen Jia's research (the scientific advisor – Professor Shalina I.V.) is focused on a typical scenario of a family quarrel according to the data of a lively conversation and modern drama.

The graduates became candidates of philology and now plan to return to their homeland and use knowledge at work. For example, they will work as teachers of the Russian language and Chinese as a foreign language.