Olga Leontovich is Professor of the Department of Intercultural Communication and Translation at Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University, Head of the Communication Studies Centre, Russian-Chinese Intercultural Research Centre, and American Studies Centre. In 2018–21 she was a part-time Professor at Tianjin Foreign Studies University. Distinguished Professor of Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University and Tianjin Foreign Studies University. Prof. Leontovich has authored over 230 publications, including ”The Dictionary of U.S. Life and Culture” for Russian readers (co-author E. Sheigal, 1998, 2nd ed. 2000), several entries for the “World Education Encyclopedia" (2002), monographs “Russians and Americans: Paradoxes of Intercultural Communication” (2003, 2005), “Introduction to Intercultural Communication” (2007), “Communication Research Methods” (2011), “Understanding as the Beginning of Agreement: Intercultural Family Communication” (co-author E. Yakusheva, 2014), collective monograph “Positive Communication” (2020), etc. Prof. Leontovich has the experience of lecturing at a number of universities in China, UK, and the USA. She is on the editorial boards of several peer-reviewed academic journals, including the “Russian Journal of Linguistics” (Q1). Her research interests include ethnography of language and communication, sociolinguistics, intercultural communication, narratology and discourse analysis.
Prof. Leontovich is the leader of the project «Linguistic Mechanisms of Social Interaction: Politeness in Lexis and Discourse» supported by the Russian Science Foundation https://rscf.ru/project/23-18-00238. The information about the project is posted on the site of the Pushkin State Russian Language Institute https://www.pushkin.institute/sciences/lingvomech/
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