On October 27, the Faculty of Philology hosted the annual IX All-Russian Scientific Conference with international participation, dedicated to the 75th anniversary of DSc in Philology, Professor of the Department of General Linguistics and Stylistics of the Faculty of Philology, Honoured Scientist of the Russian Federation Iosif Abramovich Sternin.
For the second year now, the conference has been called “Sternin Readings: Meaning as a phenomenon of the actual linguistic consciousness of a native speaker.” The conference was organised by the Department of General Linguistics and Stylistics of the Faculty of Philology of Voronezh State University, the Voronezh Psycholinguistic Association and the Centre for Communication Research named after Professor Iosif Sternin.
The scientific meeting was attended by more than 50 scientists from universities of Voronezh, Barnaul, Biysk, Borisoglebsk, Bryansk, Krasnodar, Lipetsk, Lugansk, Moscow, Nizhny Novgorod, Omsk, Perm, St. Petersburg, Saratov, Surgut, Tver, Togliatti, Chelyabinsk, Yakutsk, Yaroslavl, as well as universities of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, China, and Sri Lanka.
The conference was opened by the chairman of the organising committee, Doctor of Philology, Acting Head of the Department of General Linguistics and Stylistics, Alexander Rudakova.
The conference was held remotely. The moderator was the Head of the Department of English Language for Sciences Faculties, Professor Marina Sternina.
Participants listened to 5 plenary reports and worked in five sections: “Experimental description of the semantics of language units”, “Cognitive approach to the description of the semantics of language units”, “Communicative and discursive aspects of the semantics of language units”, “Semantic studies of language units”, “Linguocriminalistic aspect of the study of language units”.
Among the speakers, in addition to professors and associate professors, there were also novice researchers: students of Voronezh and Kuban universities, as well as the Borisoglebsk branch of Voronezh State University. The reports will be published in the 9th issue of the proceedings of the conference of the same name.
