FACULTY OF PHILOLOGY AND JOURNALISM

150 Pushkinskaya St., Rostov-on-Don, Russia 344006

E-mail: filfak @ filfak. rnd. runnet. ru

Tel. 65-64-85, 64-46-66.

Academic specializations: theory of literature, applied linguistics; classical philology; editing; translation and translation practice; international journalism; guide and interpreter training; publishing; radio and television journalism; newspaper and magazine journalism.

Master’s degrees are available in the following specializations:

Russian literature; literature of the ethnic peoples of Russia; foreign literature; literary theory; theory and history of literary criticism; Russian language; Slavic languages; classical languages; general linguistics, sociolinguistics and psycholinguistics; diachronic, typological,comparative linguistics; structural, applied, mathematical linguistics; theory of translation and interlanguage communication; training for research and academic activity; theory and history of journalism, language of mass media; publishing; journalist-politologist; journalist-lawer; journalist-economist; journalist-sociologist; journalism and advertising business.

DEPARTMENT OF GENERAL AND COMPARATIVE LINGUISTICS

Department’s main areas of research:

The lexical atlas of the Don dialects; historical and ethnographical dictionary of the language in the Don region.

DEGTYAREV V.I. The toponimical dictionary of the Don region; comparative study of grammar of Slavonic languages.

RUSSIAN LANGUAGE DEPARTMENT

Department’s main areas of research: Expressive stylistics and rhetorics; a writer’s language (Chekhov, Tolstoy, Sholokhov); phraseology; onomastics.

KHAZAGEROV T.G., D.S.in Philology, Prof. Expressive stylistics; linguistic basis of computer science.

GVOZDAREV Y.A., D.S. in Philology, Prof. Phraseology of the modern Russian language.

DEPARTMENT OF RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Department’s main areas of research: Russian literature and culture.

BELOPOLSKY V.N. Dostoyevsky and philosophy.

DEPARTMENT OF THEORY AND HISTORY OF WORLD LITERATURE

Department’s main areas of research: Poetics of prosaic genres in world literature.

ZABABOUROVA N.V. Poetics of French novels.

LUXEMBURG A.M., D.S. in Philology, Prof. British and American novel in 19th and 20th centuries; experiment in modern western novel; British and American academic novel; the prose of Vladimir Nabokov.

DEPARTMENT OF 20TH-CENTURY RUSSIAN LITERATURE

Department’s main areas of research:

Sholokhov’s work within the context of Russian culture

GLUSHKOV N.I., D.S. in Philology, Prof. Sholokhov’s work within the context of Russian culture.

OSIPOVA T.O. Traditions of Sholokhov’s philosophy in Russian war prose of the 20th century.

DEPARTMENT OF THE THEORY OF JOURNALISM

Department’s main areas of research: mass media typology; methods of journalism studies; communication and journalism; journalism and law; regional broadcasting and TV; simulation and design of new types of mass media; advertising studies; publishing; journal and magazine studies

AKOPOV A.I. Typology and simulation of mass media; journal studies; methodology and methods for the study of periodicals.

DEPARTMENT OF THE LANGUAGE OF MASS MEDIA

Department’s main areas of research: The influential function of the language of mass media; correctness of speech.

KOLESNIKOV N.P., D.S. in Philology, Prof . Lexicographical description of modern Russian literary language; correctness of speech; syntactic homonymy.

VVEDENSKAYA L.A., D.S. in Philology, Prof. Modern processes and tendencies of lexical evolution in the language of mass media; lexicographical description of modern Russian literary language.

CHERVINSKY P.P., D.S. in Philology, Assoc. Prof. Ethnosemantics; Stereotypes of mass consciousness, phenomena of mass consciousness in the language of mass media.

DEPARTMENT OF THE HISTORY OF JOURNALISM

Department’s main areas of research: History of Russian journalism; history and theory of foreign journalism; local press: historical typology; development of journalism in the Don region and the Northern Caucasus;

KORNILOV Y.A. History of contem-porary Russian journalism; typology of periodicals; history and theory of local press; modern modes of mass media.

STANKO A.I., D.S. in Philology, Prof. History of Russian journalism in 18th and 19th centuries; typology of journalism; multinational journalism in the Don region and the Northern Caucasus .

DEPATMENT OF ROMANCE AND GERMANIC LANGUAGES

Department’s main areas of research: Grammar, lexicology ans syntax of Romance and Germanic languages; history of Romance and Germanic languages; literature in German, English and French.