Irina Sandomirskaja 

irina.sandomirskaja@sh.se


Södertörn University Russian Federation

B. 1959. Professor, Cultural Studies, Södertörn University. 1991 PhD in Linguistics from Institute of Linguistics, USSR Academy of Sciences, Moscow, with dissertation Metaphoric Emotive Verbs with the Semantics of Human Conduct. SCAS scholar in 1996-98. Has written several works on the history of linguistic practices, theories of mother tounge, and theory of translation, notably Kniga o rodine: opyt analiza diskursivnyx praktik (“A Book about the Motherland: Analyzing Discursive Practices”). Co-organized the research project “Cultures in Dialogue” 1998-2001 (Baltic Sea Foundation), and has organized numerous symposia, e.g., on national identities and cybernetics.