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