Round table at Pushkin Museum

MSLU representatives took part in the interactive round table “Homo loquens as Homo gestens: why do humans need gestures?” conducted at the Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts on March 16, 2023. Following experts took part in the event: Olga K.Iriskhanova, vice-rector for research at Moscow State Linguistic University, director of ScoDis, head of laboratory
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New PhD thesis defended

Anna Leontieva’s thesis defence took place on the 13th February 2023. The dissertation entitled “Strategies of prosecution and defence in judicial discourse from multimodal perspective” was supervised by Pr. Olga Iriskhanova. Our colleague applied multimodal approach to the analysis of strategies and techniques used by speakers in judicial argumentation which can help broaden the understanding
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“Scientists of the Year” from ScoDis!

On February, 25 prizes of the “Golden Linguin”, annual scientific awards of the MSLU, were presented. The awards is organised by the Council of young scientists of the university in partnership with the Research and technology council of the MSLU. We are proud to celebrate our colleagues awarded with the “Scientist of the Year” awards
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Cognitive Congress 2022

XI International Congress on Cognitive Linguistics took place on November, 7-8 at two venues: “Radisson Slavyyanskaya” hotel and Moscow State Linguistic University. The event was organised by the MSLU, the Russian cognitive linguists association, Institute of linguistics at the Russian Academy of Sciences and Derzhavin Tambov State University. More than 350 cognitive scientists took part
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