لقد عدّ سوسير اللغةَ ظاهرةً اجتماعيّة بعد ان كانت تدَرس دراسةً تاريخيّة فكان لنظريتِه هذه الأثر الكبير في نشوء علم اللغة المعاصر وفروعه المتعددة من علم اللغة الاجتماعي والنفسي والعصبي والسياسي والمعماري...
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Joseph Abramovich Sternin Doctor of Philology, Professor, Head of the Department, Honored Scientist of the Russian Federation
In 1965 he graduated from the evening school in Voronezh with a medal, in 1970 - from the English department of the faculty of the Russian Humanitarian Fund of Voronezh State University (diploma with honors). Completed postgraduate studies at the Institute of Linguistics of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR.
Candidate dissertation "On the problem of deictic functions of a word" was defended in 1973 in Moscow (scientific supervisor - AA Ufimtseva).
Doctoral dissertation "Lexical meaning of a word in speech" was defended in 1987 in Minsk.
The main stages of labor activity: 1970-1975 - teacher of English, French, German and Spanish in the evening school; from 1975 to the present - lecturer, associate professor, professor of the department of general linguistics and stylistics; from 1995 to the present - head of this department.
Research interests: theory of language, general and contrastive semasiology, speech influence, rhetoric, cognitive linguistics
Author of over 900 scientific papers. Supervisor and consultant for 50 doctoral and postgraduate students.