Ekaterina Velmezova

Ekaterina Velmezova
Born (1973-02-03) 3 February 1973 (age 51)
Scientific career
Fieldsphilology, Slavic studies, history of linguistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Lausanne

Ekaterina Valeryevna Velmezova (Russian: Екатери́на Вале́рьевна Вельме́зова, Ekaterina Valer'yevna Vel'mezova; French: Ekaterina Velmezova; 3 February 1973) is a Russian and Swiss philologist, professor of Slavistics and of history and epistemology of language sciences in Eastern Europe at the University of Lausanne, whose principal works concern Russian and Czech ethnolinguistics, as well as history and epistemology of language sciences in Central and Eastern Europe.[1]

Ekaterina Velmezova published the first ever corpus of Czech incantations (Вельмезова, 2004).[2] Her monograph about Nicholas Marr (the largest book about Marr's linguistic doctrines[3]) describes Marr's theories in the context of the language sciences of his era.[4][5][6][7]

Ekaterina Velmezova is the author of a new conception supposing analysis of linguistic theories through literary texts (Вельмезова 2014).[8]

Ekaterina Velmezova is a member of the board of directors of the Society of History and Epistemology of Language Sciences (French: Société d’histoire et d’épistémologie des sciences du langage, Paris), official representative of Swiss Slavists at the International Committee of Slavists, a member of the board of directors of Cercle Ferdinand de Saussure (Geneva) and vice-president of the Centre for Linguistics and Language Sciences at the University of Lausanne.[1]

Ekaterina Velmezova is poet and graphic artist.

Biography

In 2000, Ekaterina Velmezova defended her first PhD thesis, dedicated to the Czech language and folklore, at the Institute of Slavic Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences.[9] Her second thesis, dedicated to the history of semantic ideas, was defended at the University of Lausanne in 2005 and earned an award from the Faculty of Arts.[10] In 2007, she received the Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches degree from the University of Toulouse II – Le Mirail.[1]

Since 2015 Ekaterina Velmezova is full professor of Slavistics and of history and epistemology of language sciences in Eastern Europe at the University of Lausanne.[11] Since 2021 she is invited professor of Slavic linguistics at the University of Tartu.

Ekaterina Velmezova is editor-in-chief of the Epistemologica et historiographica linguistica Lausannensia book series.

Monographs

  • Е. В. Вельмезова. (2004). Чешские заговоры: исслед. и тексты. Традиционная духовная культура славян: ТДКС. Публикация текстов (500 экз ed.). М.: Индрик. p. 277. ISBN 978-5-85759-263-2. Archived from the original on 2015-10-01. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  • Ekaterina Velmezova. (2007). Les lois du sens: la sémantique marriste. Slavica Helvetica. Vol. 77. Bern; Berlin; Bruxelles; Frankfurt am Main; New York; Oxford; Wien. ISBN 978-3-03911-208-1. Archived from the original on 2015-10-01. Retrieved 2015-10-07.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  • Е. В. Вельмезова. (2014). История лингвистики в истории литературы (300 экз ed.). М.: Индрик. p. 414. ISBN 978-5-91674-302-9.

Collections

Poetry collections

  • 2021: Время, конец и начало [Time, End and Beginning] (Tartu: Dialoog).
  • 2023: Тасму [Tasmu] (Tartu: Dialoog) (2024 shortlist for the annual Award of the Estonian Cultural Capital Foundation [Eesti Kultuurkapital]).

References

  1. ^ a b c "Ekaterina Velmezova, professeure ordinaire" (in French). Archived from the original on 2 October 2015. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
  2. ^ Niebrzegowska-Bartmińska, Stanisława (2007). "Pierwsza synteza czeskich zamówień". Etnolingwistyka (19): 301–304.
  3. ^ Алпатов, В. М. (2008). "Les lois du sens: la sémantique marriste" (PDF). Вопросы языкознания (2 (март–апрель)). М.: 137–141. ISSN 0373-658X.
  4. ^ van Helden, Andries (2008). "Ekaterina Velmezova. Les lois du sens: la sémantique marriste (Slavica Helvetica, Vol. 77)" (PDF). The Henry Sweet Society for the History of Linguistic Ideas Bulletin (51 (November)): 61–64. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-26. Retrieved 2015-10-07.
  5. ^ Brandist, Craig (2008). "Les lois du sens: La sémantique marriste. By Ekaterina Velmezova". Historiographia Linguistica. 35 (35 (issue 1–2)): 208–212. doi:10.1075/hl.35.1-2.16bra. ISSN 0302-5160.
  6. ^ van Helden, Andries (2009). "Velmezova, E.: Les lois du sens: la sémantique marriste (Slavica Helvetica, 77), Bern, etc. Peter Lang, 2007, 392 pp" (PDF). Russian Linguistics. 33 (33 (issue 3)): 319–345. doi:10.1007/s11185-009-9041-z. ISSN 0304-3487.
  7. ^ Vykypěl, Bohumil (2008). Velmezova, Ekaterina. Les lois du sens: la sémantique marriste (PDF). A, Řada jazykovědná = Linguistica Brunensia. pp. 253–255. ISBN 978-80-210-4617-7. ISSN 0231-7567. {{cite book}}: |journal= ignored (help)
  8. ^ Comtet, Roger (2014). "Compte rendu du livre: Ekaterina Vel'mezova, Istorija lingvistiki v istorii literatury, Moskva, Indrik, 2014". Revue des études slaves. LXXXV (fascicule 4). Paris: 769–776. doi:10.4000/res.312.
  9. ^ "Авторефераты диссертаций, защищённых в Институте и сотрудниками Института". Институт славяноведения РАН. 2013-09-08. Retrieved 1 October 2015.
  10. ^ "Ekaterina Velmezova" (in French). Retrieved 1 October 2015. Prix et distinctions scientifiques. Prix de la Faculté des Lettres de l'Université de Lausanne pour la thèse de doctorat «La linguistique soviétique à l'époque stalinienne: la sémantique marriste» 2005
  11. ^ "Nouveaux professeurs 2015" (in French). University of Lausanne. Archived from the original on 16 October 2015. Retrieved 1 October 2015.

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