Vlada V. Baranova
- Associate Professor:HSE Campus in St. Petersburg / Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies / Department of Sociology
- Vlada V. Baranova has been at HSE University since 2006.
Education and Degrees
- 2006
Candidate of Sciences* (PhD) in Ethnography, Ethnology and Anthropology
Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography (Kunstkamera) - 2002
Degree
Saint Petersburg State University
According to the International Standard Classification of Education (ISCED) 2011, Candidate of Sciences belongs to ISCED level 8 - "doctoral or equivalent", together with PhD, DPhil, D.Lit, D.Sc, LL.D, Doctorate or similar. Candidate of Sciences allows its holders to reach the level of the Associate Professor.

Young Faculty Support Program (Group of Young Academic Professionals)
Category "Future Professoriate" (2009-2010)
Student Term / Thesis Papers
- Bachelor
E. Ardashova, Communicative Strategies of Interviewers in Sociological Research: Linguistic Politeness and Question Form. Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2020
I. Lkhasaranova, Buryat Language and Ethnic Identity Among the Buryats in the Web Space. Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2020
A. Masharipova, Adaptation of Migrant Children: the Impact of School, Family and NPO. Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2020
D. Leonteva, Comparative Analysis of the Israeli and Jewish Centers of St. Petersburg: Practices and Representations. Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2019
I. Andrianov, The Careers and Professional Communities of Young Musicians: Academic and Informal Professional Trajectories. Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2019
T. Kravchenko, Representation of the Retirement Reform Issue in New Mass Media. Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2019
M. Goncharova, Ethnic Prejudice in the Rental Market in St.Petersburg. Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2019
M. Mirat, Russian Migrants in Morocco: Adaptation Practices and Communication in a Local Group. Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2019
E. Kuznetsova, Practices of Treatment and Using of Medical Care among Migrant Workers from CIS Countries in Saint-Petersburg. Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2018
E. Maksimova, Soundscape: a Framework of Multiethnic Communication in Urban Environment. Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2018
A. Naumova, Young Chinese in Saint Petersburg: Leisure Time Activities and Type of Employment. Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2018
D. Gershtein, The Preservation and Reproduction Strategies of Cultural Patterns in Inoethnic Families of Saint-Petersburg. Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2018
G. Lysov, Leadership in Online Games. Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2017
A. Bolshakova, Self-Organization of Citizens in Protest Groups in Russia: the Motivation of the Participants of the Movement in Defense of the Rimsky-Korsakov Music School. Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2017
L. Kalamova, Adaptation of Foreign Students: Everyday Practices and the Use of Languages (the Case of American Students in SpbU). Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2017
A. Kryazheva, The Attitude of Young Professional Sportsmen to Doping: the Case of Athletes in St-Petersburg. Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2017
I. Nikolaenko, Representation of Sensitive Themes in Russian Modern Mass Media. Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2017
- Master
V. Ivanov, Attitude to Urban Multilingualism through the Prism of the Linguistic Landscape of Ulan-Ude. Faculty of Humanities, 2020
E. Gushchina, Language at the Workplace in Moscow: Multilingual Practices and Language Management. Faculty of Humanities, 2020
S. Skuchilina, Barriers for Migrants in the Rental Market in St. Petersburg. Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2018
Y. Adzhigitova, The Role of Language in the Self-determination of the Chuvashes (according to Discussions at Forums and Vkontakte Groups). Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies, 2018
Courses (2020/2021)
- Language and Society (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Eng
- Reseach Seminar "Sociolinguistics of the Russian City" (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Language Variability in Heterogeneous Environment" (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Theoretical Approaches to Language (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Past Courses
Courses (2019/2020)
- Language Policy (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 1-4 module)Rus
- Reseach Seminar "Sociolinguistics of the Russian City" (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Diachronic Changes in Grammar" (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Sociolinguistics (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 4 year, 3 module)Rus
- Theoretical Approaches to Language (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 3 year, 1-4 module)Rus
Courses (2018/2019)
- Argumentation Theory and Academic Writing (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Eng
- Introduction to Linguistics (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 2 module)Rus
- Language and Society (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 3 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Reseach Seminar "Sociolinguistics of the Russian City" (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Urban Lingustics and Ethnocultural Issues (Master’s programme; Faculty of Humanities; 1 year, 4 module)Rus
Courses (2017/2018)
- Argumentation Theory and Academic Writing (Bachelor’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Argumentation Theory and Academic Writing (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 1-3 module)Eng
- Introduction to Linguistics (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 1 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Introduction to Linguistics (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
- Research Seminar "Grammar of Russian urban dialects" (Bachelor’s programme; School of Arts and Humanities; 2 year, 1, 2 module)Rus
Courses (2016/2017)
- Argumentation Theory and Academic Writing (Bachelor’s programme; St.Petersburg School of Economics and Management; 1 year, 2, 3 module)Rus
- Argumentation Theory and Academic Writing (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 1-4 module)Eng
- Rhetoric: the Practice of Oral and Written Communication (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
- Safe Living Basics (Bachelor’s programme; Saint-Petersburg School of Social Sciences and Area Studies; 1 year, 1 module)Rus
Courses (2015/2016)
Grants
2018 - ‘Subordinate clauses in Kalmyk: grammaticalization of clausal linking devices and inventory of morphological forms’, scholarship for Altaic studies by foundation of G. J. Ramstedt.
Conferences
- 2020Caritive constructions in the languages of the world (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Caritive marker -SƏr and other means of expressing absence in Chuvash
- 2019The International Conference on Language Variation in Europe (ICLaVE 10) (Leeuwarden). Presentation: Migration and Multilingualism in computer-mediated communication: practices of language choice and code-switching
- Multilingual Urban Space: policy, identity, education (XX International Academic Conference on Economic and Social Development at the HSE) (Москва). Presentation: Russian as ethnolect and the Russian segment of Internet
- Workshop on Reported Discourse across Languages and Cultures (Париж). Presentation: Participial forms of non-canonical SAY in clausal complements of nouns in Mongolic and their methodological challenges
- 2018Multilingual Landscapes: Planning, Policy, and Contact Linguistic Perspectives (Манчестер). Presentation: Underrepresented or Mistreated? Interethnic Communication Patterns and Linguistic Landscape in Russian Cities
- Multilingualism and Language Attitudes in the Post-Soviet Area (Эдинбург). Presentation: Multilingualism in computer-mediated communication: examining a hybridized linguistic form among Uzbek and Kyrgyz in Russia
- Globalising Sociolinguistics: Communicating in the City (GloSoc2) (Лейден). Presentation: Minority languages in Russian cities: Mapping the linguistic landscape of St. Petersburg via mobile application
- Языки народов России в контакте с русским языком: явления морфосинтаксической и семантической интерференции (Москва). Presentation: Интерференционные модели в речи двуязычных калмыков
- 2017Language, Mobility and Belonging (Оксфорд). Presentation: Invisible Minorities and Hidden Diversity: The Linguistic Landscape of Saint-Petersburg and Discourses about Migrants in Language Planning (в соавторстве с К. Федорова)
- Endangered Mongolian Varieties (Будапешт). Presentation: Negation in embedded clauses: The development of the negative preverbal particle esǝ in Kalmyk
- Workshop on the Negative existential cycle in historical-comparative perspective (Стокгольм). Presentation: The Negative Existential Cycle in Kalmyk and Bashkir (with Daria Mishenko)
- 2016LINGUAPAX ASIA International Symposium ‘MIGRATION, MIGRANTS AND LANGUAGE’ (Осака). Presentation: Migration from Central Asia to Russia: Central Asian Variety of Russian as an Ethnolect
- 201447th Annual Meeting of the Societas Linguistica Europaea (Познань). Presentation: Ways of grammaticalization of the verb gi-¬ ‘say’ in Kalmyk
- Системные изменения в языках России (Санкт-Петербург). Presentation: Отрицание в калмыцком языке: изменение системы и распределение форм
Publications12
- Article Baranova V. V., Федорова К. С. Overcoming aggressive monolingualism: prejudices and linguistic diversity in Russian megalopolises // Open Linguistics. 2020. Vol. 6. No. 1. P. 672-689. doi
- Article Баранова В. В. Адаптация глагольных заимствований в монгольских языках // Урало-алтайские исследования. 2020. Т. 38. № 3. С. 7-18. doi
- Article Baranova V. V. The preverbal Negation Particle esə in Kalmyk: Historical Development and Typological Context of Negators in Subordinate clause // International Journal of Eurasian Linguistics. 2019. Vol. 1. No. 1. P. 21-45. doi
- Article Baranova V. V., Fedorova K. ‘Invisible minorities’ and ‘hidden diversity’ in Saint-Petersburg's linguistic landscape // Language and Communication. 2019. Vol. 68. P. 17-27. doi
- Chapter Федорова К. С., Baranova V. V. Moscow: Diversity in disguise, in: Urban Sociolinguistics: The City as a Linguistic Process and Experience. L., NY : Routledge, 2018. Ch. 14. P. 220-236. doi
- Article Baranova V. V. Local language planners in the context of Early Soviet language policy: Case of Mariupol Greeks // Revue des etudes slaves. 2017. Vol. LXXXVIII. No. 1-2. P. 97-112.
- Article Baranova V. V. Grammaticalization paths of the verb gi- ‘say’ in Kalmyk // Mongolica Pragensia. Linguistics, Ethnolinguistics, Religion and Culture. 2015. Vol. 8. No. 2. P. 57-76.
- Preprint Baranova V. V. Negation markers in Kalmyk / NRU HSE. Series WP BRP "Linguistics". 2015. No. 24.
- Article Baranova V. V. The Linguistic Socialisation of Migrant Children in Russia / Пер. с рус. // Forum for Anthropology and Culture. 2014. No. 10. P. 206-221.
- Article Baranova V. V. Grammaticalization and Semantics of Complex Predicates in Kalmyk // Journal de la Société Finno-Ougrienne. 2013. Vol. 94. P. 9-35.
- Article Baranova V. V. La Kalmoukie à l’école (fin 1950-2000) // Cahiers de l'Institut de linguistique et des sciences du langage. 2013. No. 35. P. 75-99.
- Preprint Alexandrov D. A., Baranova V. V., Ivaniushina V. A. Migrant children in Russia. I. Migration, ethnicity and segregation in St. Petersburg / Sociology of Education and Science Laboratory. Series WP 001 "Sociology of Education and Science Laboratory Working Papers SESL". 2012. No. 1.
2018 - ‘Subordinate clauses in Kalmyk: grammaticalization of clausal linking devices and inventory of morphological forms’, scholarship for Altaic studies by foundation of G. J. Ramstedt.
HSE’s New Master’s Programme: Training Specialists in Language Policy
The first intake into this new Master’s programme will be in 2018 and its graduates will be able to work in the field of language policy. Denis Zubalov, Academic Supervisor of the programme 'Language Policy in the Context of Ethnocultural Diversity' told the HSE News Service all about what students will be studying, how urbanization is linked to language policy and what killer languages are.
Round table “Education Trends in the Context of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity”
14-15th of May 2015 the international conference “Education and Global Cities: Perspectives of BRICS” took place in St. Petersburg bringing together leading foreign and Russian experts in the field of education. In the framework of this conference the Center of Asian and African Studies and the Department of Asian and African Studies co-organized the round table “Education Trends in the Context of Ethnic and Cultural Diversity”, which focused on the challenges of education in multiethnic states with a special emphasis on the BRICS countries.