Authors
The Austrian Team
Renate Rathmayr (Head of the Project)
Studied Slavic and Romance languages and literatures, and translation studies in Graz and Innsbruck
Full professor at Vienna University of Economics and Business, Department of Foreign Language Business Communication since 1989, Head of the Institute of Slavic languages
Main areas of research: Pragmatics of the Russian language, business communication, intercultural communication More
Aneliya Adzhemova
Studied International Business Administration at Vienna University of Economics and Business
University Assistant (prae doc) at the Institute for Export Management since February 2014
Main areas of research: phenomena in the Russian business language, corporate identity and the usage of social media, country risk and motives for internalization More
Therese Garstenauer
Studied Sociology, Russian language and literature, and History in Vienna, Moscow and Edinburgh
Research associate in the project “Russian Corporate Communication: A Discourse Analysis” since 2011
Main areas of research: corporate communication, social history/sociology of science, social history of civil servants More
Colin Heller
Studied Slavistics and German as a foreign language in Jena
PhD Student at the Institute of Slavistics at the University in Klagenfurt since 2007
Manager at the department of railway transportations to CIS-countries in an international forwarding company
Main areas of linguistic research and interest: lexicography (compilation of a dictionary), business communication, railway and business terminology
Edgar Hoffmann
Studied History and Russian language and literature in Leipzig and Voronezh
Assistant professor at the Institute of Slavic languages since 2003
Main areas of research: Business communication, intercultural communication, language of advertising, national identity and country images, post-soviet cultural processes, names in the economy, linguistic change (Russia and Czech Republic), corpus-based Critical Discourse Analysis, qualitative and quantitative research methods More
Ekaterina Ivanova
Studied Strategic management and Corporate governance in Moscow, St. Petersburg and Vienna
Research associate in the project “Russian Corporate Communication: A Discourse Analysis” since 2011
Main areas of research: strategic management and corporate governance, organization studies, corporate social responsibility, empirical social research More
Katharina Klingseis
Studied Slavic languages and literatures and translation studies in Innsbruck and Vienna
Assistant at the Institute of Slavic Languages since 2009
Main areas of research: Soviet and contemporary Russian society: entrepreneurship, gender relations, relations between society and the state; social and cultural theories More
Vera Kuhnert
Studied German language and literature as well as Management and Organizational Behaviour in Almaty and Vienna
PhD Student at the Institute for Slavic Languages since 2011
Main areas of research: Russian nonverbal communication, corporate communication, relations of power in organizational communication
Dionisi Nikolov
Studied Slavic languages and literatures, and Economics in Dresden and Frankfurt/Main
Research Assistant at the Institute for Slavic Languages since 2009
Main areas of research: Business and corporate communication, linguistic pragmatics, critical discourse analysis More
Skrypnyk Olena
Studied International Economics at Dnepropetrovsk University of Economics and Law and at Vienna University of Economics
Diploma thesis “Explicit communication politics in Russian companies on the example of corporate codes of ethics”
The Russian Team
Tatiana Milekhina (Head of the Russian Project Team)
Professor at Saratov State University, Department of Russian language since 2009
Main areas of research: Social aspects in the analysis of spoken language, Social stratification and its reflection in spoken and written Russian language, spoken language of entrepreneurs More (Russian)
Alla Baykulova
Associate Professor (docent) at Saratov State University, Department of Russian language and Communication
Acquired a doctoral degree in 2006 (theses on “Oral Communication in the Family”)
Main areas of research: informal communication in various domains
Author of 67 scientific publications
Anna Degal’tseva
Doctor of philology
Lecturer at Saratov State University, Department of Russian Language and Communication
Fields of interest: syntax, stylistics and oral speech culture, business communication
Author of several articles on the specificities of business e-mails (communication risks, slang, politeness and cooperativeness)
Svetlana Risinzon
Professor at Saratov State Technical University, Department of foreign languages and intercultural communication.
Main areas of research: politeness, cooperative strategies in different spheres of communication, speech etiquette (Russian and English language) More (Russian)
Elena Kirsanova
Associate professor (docent) at the International Finance Faculty, Finance University under the Government of the Russian Federation
Main areas of research: comparative studies, mainly pragmasemantics and cultural stereotypes