Mira Bergelson

In Russian

• Mira Bergelson. Pragmatic and sociocultural motivations  of linguistic form. Moscow: Universitietskaya kniga, 2007, 320 p.
• Mira Bergelson, Andrej Kibrik, Marina Raskladkina. Russian linguistic heritage of Alaska: in search of  mother tongue. RHF Bulletin, 2013 №1 (70), 158-169.
• Mira Bergelson. Review of linguistic projects funded by the Russian Humanities Foundation in 2010-2011. Voprosy yazykoznaniya, 2012, № 1, 142-156.
• Mira Bergelson.  Narrative structure through the prism of poetic discourse. Sandro Kodzasov’s Festschrift Phonetics and Non-phonetics. Moscow: Yazyki slavyanskikh kultur, 2008, 648-657.
• Mira Bergelson.  Factor of Adressee(s) inthemass-media discourse. Abstracts of the 2^nd International Conference Mass-media Language as the Object of Interdisciplinary research. Moscow: MSU Press, 2008.
• Mira Bergelson.  Communication principles, language functions, and the addressee’s factor. Proceedings of the 4^th international conference of the Russian Communication Association Communication and Modern Social and Humanities Scholarship. Moscow: MSU  Press, 2008, 128-131.
• Mira Bergelson.  «Да нет, пожалуй» - Contradiction as an Instrument of Interpersonal Harmony. Abstracts of the 3^rd International Conference on Cognitive Science. Moscow: Tsentr isucheniya russkogo yazyka, 2008, 25-26.
• Mira Bergelson.  Intercultural communication as interaction of cultural schemas. S.G. Ter-Minasova’s Festschrift Language, Culture, Communication. Moscow: Gnozis, 2008, 427-435.
• Bergelson, M.B., Dragoy, O.V., Mannova, E.M., Skvorzov, A.A., Statnikov, A.I., Iskra, E.V. (2009). Cognitive accessibility as a sentence accuracy criterion. Psycholinguistics in the XXI century: results, problems, perspectives. Moscow, 268-269.
• Dragoy, O.V., Bergelson, M.B., Skvorzov, A.A., Statnikov, A.I., Mannova, E.M., Iskra, E.V. (2009). Who is working if the gardener’s grandmother is sleeping: a test for diagnosing comprehension of logico-grammatical constructions. Proceedings of the International Scientific Conference “Physiology of human development”, Moscow, Russia, June 22-24, 36-37.
• M. B. Bergelson, A.E. Nekrasova. Linguistic analysis of stereotypes:  In search of balance between the text and the meaning. Proceedings of the conference Computer Linguistics and Intellectual technologies. Moscow: RGGU Press, Vol 8 (15), 2010, 30-35.
• Mira Bergelson.  Cross-cultural analysis of the Northern Athabasks’ narrative traditions. In Memoria of V. P. Nedyalkov. Issues in Grammar and Typology Moscow: Gnozis, 2010, 37-59.
• Dragoy, O.V., Bergelson, M.B., Akinina, Yu.S., & Shitova, N.M. (2010). Linguistic theory and data on language loss: analysis of aphasic narrative. Paper presented at the Conference “Theoretical and applied linguistics: ways of development. To the 100^th anniversary of V.A. Zvegintsev”, Moscow,Russia, October 29-30.
• Statnikov, A., Dragoy, O.V., Bergelson, M., Iskra, E., Mannova, E., Skvortsov, A. (2011). Comprehension of logico-grammatical constructions in different aphasia types. Proceedings of the conference “Cognitive science in Moscow: new research”. Moscow, Bukivedi, 238-242.

In English:

• Verbal Communication Functions in the Light of Technological Changes: Possible Consequences. Proceedings of the The XIV-th International Conference"Cognitive Modeling in Linguistics" (CML-2013). Southern Federal University Press, Rostov-on-Don. 2013, 54-57. 
• Mira B. Bergelson and Andrej A. Kibrik. Alaskan Russian: The Story of the Ninilchik Community as Told by its Language. Over the Near Horizon.  Proceedings of the 2010 International Conference on Russian America.   Sitka Historical Sociaty, 2013, 217-227.
• Little, Craig B., Titarenko, L., Bergelson, M. The Role of Democratic Dialogue in Collaborative International Distance Education. AUDEM: International Journal of Higher Education and Democracy,  2012, Vol.3, 120-143.
• Mira Bergelson, Andrej  Kibrik, Wayne Leman. Ninilchik Russian: Language of an Alaska Village. Prepublication of a dictionary. Raleigh, NC, USA, 2012. 215 p.
• Mira Bergelson. Intercultural Communication Patterns of Russian America: Burden of Cultural Stereotypes. Proceedings of the 5-th International Conference on Russian America. Institute of Emigration of Aland Islands, Finland, August 2012.
• Bergelson, M.B., Dragoy, O.V., Iskra, E.V., Mannova, E.M., Skvortsov, A.A., Statnikov, A.I. What is normal when we are impaired: cognitive effects in processing space. Proceedings of the Firth International Conference on Cognitive Science.  Kalinigrad State University Press,  2012, 26-27.
• Mira Bergelson. Russian Cultural Values and Workplace Communication Patterns. Intercultural Communication: A Reader. (Larry A. Samovar, Richard E. Porter, Edwin R. McDaniel, eds.) 13th edition, USA, 2012, 189-197.
• Mira Bergelson. Modern Russian public discourse:  Do changes in information technology lead to new discourse strategies, or to new worldview? Proceedings of the conference Computer Linguistics and Intellectual technologies. Moscow: RGGU Press, Vol. 9 (16), 2011, 94-101.
• Bergelson, M., Dragoy, O., Iskra, E., Mannova, E., Skvortsov, A., & Statnikov, A. Compensating spatial impairments: spatial-dynamic stereotypes. Paper presented at the Night Whites Language Workshop, St. Petersburg, Russia, December 16-17, 2011.
• Mira Bergelson, Andrej Kibrik. The Ninilchik variety of Russian:  Linguistic heritage of Alaska. Slavica Helsingiensia 40:  Instrumentarium of Linguistics. Sociolinguistic Approaches to Non-Standard Russian, Helsinki 2010, p. 299-313.
• Mira Bergelson. How Much Culture we Need to Figure out Misunderstanding: Cognitive, Cultural and Interactional Aspects of Story Telling. Proceedings of  the 9th Conference of the International Association for Intercultural Communication Studies, Guangzhou, China, June 17-21, 2010.
• Bergelson, M.B., Dragoy, O.V., Shklowsky, V.M. Telling a Story or Describing a Picture: Cognitive Differences and Similarities across Aphasic and Healthy Speakers. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Cognitive Science. Vol. 1, Tomsk: Tomsk State University, 2010, p. 26-27.
• Bergelson M.B., Dragoy, O.V., Mannova, E.M., Skvorzov, A.A., Statnikov, A.I., Iskra, E.V . Is it easier to cover a scarf with a hat in Broca’s or Wernicke’s aphasia? Science of Aphasia XI-th  Conference Abstracts. Potsdam, Germany, August 30-31, 2010.
• Mira Bergelson, Olga Dragoy. Inefficient Fluent and Efficient Non-fluent: A dissociation between micro- and macrostructure of aphasic discourse. Proceedings of the Science of Aphasia Xth Conference, Turkey, 2009.
• Dragoy, O.V., Bergelson M.B., Statnikov A.I., Skworzow A.A., Mannova E.M., Iskra E.V. Understanding logical-grammatical constructions: enhanced diagnostic test. Paper presented at the Joint Russian-Chinese Scientific Seminar. Methodology of psychophysiological research in Russia and China: theoretical and applied aspects, Moscow, Russia, December 7-11.Moscow: MSU Press. 2009, 37-39

Mira Bergelson is an experienced professional in cross-cultural communication, corporate and professional discourse. She comes from academic environment, and during the ‘roaring 90-ies’ she pioneered the field developing new courses, designing and delivering professional development and cultural awareness workshops for managers and educators of new Russia. 

Her professional experiences are very diverse but always focusing on effective communication, which is a key instrument of management, and on importance of cultural knowledge, which is in the heart of professional communication. Mira is a very culturally adaptable person. She has proven that having worked in such variety of settings as Russian academic institutions, American universities, a remote Siberian town, an Alaskan village, a US embassy, and the Kremlin press-office.

In her work as a cultural consultant for public organizations, state institutions and corporations Mira tackled cross-cultural communication from both ends as an educator and as a participant. She has taught Cross-cultural Management to the MBA students in Moscow-based American business school and Communication in Russian Professional Contexts to the international business students in Helsinki.

She has worked as a consultant for the US White House advance teams and for Russian Federation Presidential Executive Office.

Mira has been born and grew up in Moscow where she has always lived except for a few years of studies and research in the US and Germany. She considers herself bicultural and is fluent in Russian and English and speaks basic German and French. She has researched a variety of indigenous languages and cultures of Russia in the Caucasus, Eastern Siberia and Far East. She has a Ph.D. in Linguistics and Communication from the Russian Academy of Sciences. Her second doctoral dissertation was devoted to the sociocultural pragmatics of communication.