Igor E. Kim

Doctor of Philology, Principal Researcher at the Department of the Russian Language in Siberia, Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation); Professor at the Institute for the Humanities, Novosibirsk State University (Novosibirsk, Russian Federation)

Research Interests

Semantic syntax, social semantics, Russian morphology, speech and writing, Russian punctuation, language and worldview, general philology.

ORCID: 0000-0002-5571-4719

ResearcherID: S-1351-2016

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Brief scientific biography

In 1986 I. E. Kim graduated from the Novosibirsk State University, Faculty of Humanities, specialty «Russian language and literature», with qualification «Philologist. Teacher with knowledge of a foreign language». From August 1986 to July 2014 he worked at Krasnoyarsk State University and Siberian Federal University. In 1990-1993 he completed his full-time postgraduate studies at KSU. The academic degree of candidate of philological sciences in the specialty 10.02.01 — Russian language was awarded by the dissertation council K 113.42.02 at the Ural State Pedagogical University and approved by the Higher Attestation Commission in 1995. The topic of Ph.D. thesis — «Modus-dictum coreference and its expression in modern Russian language».

In 1999 Igor Efimovich was awarded the academic title of Associate Professor at the Department of the Russian Language.

In 2011 he defended his doctoral dissertation in the specialty 10.02.01 — Russian language at the dissertation council DM 212.099.12 at the Siberian Federal University. The topic of his doctoral dissertation is «Complicity and control in the personal and social semantic spheres of the modern Russian language».

At the present time he works as Deputy Director and Principal Researcher of the Department of the Russian Language in Siberia at the Institute of Philology.

He also holds the position of professor of the Department of General and Russian Linguistics at the Humanitarian Institute of NSU, teaches courses in political and social linguistics, functional grammar, semiotics and the theory of reference. Three candidate degree dissertations have been defended under I. E. Kim’s guidance.

Selected publications

Kim I. E. Russian language community and its mass manifestations. Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2017. Iss. 10. № 1. P. 40–46.

Kim I. E., Lyu Ya. Sredstva vyrazheniya priblizitel’nogo kolichestva v poeme N.V. Gogolya «Mertvye dushi» i ee kitayskom perevode [Means of expressing the approximate amount in the poem by N.V. Gogol’s «Dead Souls» and its Chinese translation]. Vestnik NSU. Series: History, Philology. 2017. Vol. 16. № 2. p. 102-109.

Kim I. E., Silantev I. V. Sfera obshcheniya i diskurs: terminologicheskaya izbytochnost’ ili sushchnostnoe razlichie? [The sphere of communication and discourse: terminological redundancy or essential difference?]. Siberian Journal of Philology. 2017. no 4., P. 163–174.

Kim I. E. Network digital communication from the general philological point of view: the fifth texture of speech. Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2016. Vol. 9. № 7. P. 1586–1593.

Inna Kizhner, Igor Kim, Maxim Rumyantsev, Marina Lapteva, Ruslan Baryshev, Nikita Pikov. Digital Humanities at Siberian Federal University. Digital Studies / Le champ numérique. Global Outlook: Digital Humanities: Global Digital Humanities Essay Prize Volume 5: 2014–2015.

Kim I. E., Sharoglazova T. A. Propazha i poterya v russkoy sintaksicheskoy semantike: konversnost’ i asimmetriya [Disappearance and Loss in Russian syntactic semantics: conversion and asymmetry]. Tomsk State University Journal of Philology. 2017. № 49. P. 24–37.