Mariya Poutrova
Mariya Poutrova
PhD in Philology, Associate Professor at the Department of World Literature and Foreign Languages

Teaching activities

She graduated from Minsk State Linguistic University, and after that graduated from the postgraduate course at the Department of Experimental Phonetics of this university (I.Panova was her academic advisor).
She had scientific internships in the United Kingdom in 1991, 1996, and 1999.
Mariya Poutrova participated in joint research in the United States of America within the framework of the semi-annual program "Regional Scientists" in 2003.
She actively attracts students studying "Foreign Languages (English, German; English, French)" to participate in scientific work and to recording of genuine speaking in Polotsk.
Mariya is also the founder and the head of the Linguistic Society of Polotsk State University.
Currently teaches the following disciplines:
  • Practical Phonetics of the English Language;
  • Perceptual Phonetics of the English Language;
  • Theoretical Phonetics of the English Language;
  • Extensive Reading;
  • Communicative Linguistics;
  • Gender Linguistics;
  • Introduction to Special Philology;
  • Methods of Linguistic Analysis;
  • Linguistics of Text;
  • Introduction to Linguistics;
  • Interpersonal Communication;
  • Cognitive Linguistics;
  • Hermeneutics.

Scientific interests

  • Language as an activity;
  • Problems of interpretation of the text;
  • Gender Linguistics;
  • Linguodidactics;
  • Hermeneutics.

She conducts research in the field of Communicative and Gender Linguistics. Also, she has carried out extensive records of genuine communication in English, American, Belarusian and Russian, and based on them, Mariya is engaged in comparative studies of language behavior in four cultures. The obtained data and samples of authentic speaking are used in courses of Communicative Linguistics, Gender Linguistics, Interpersonal Communication, Perceptual and Theoretical Phonetics of the English Language, Hermeneutics.
She is the organizer of international scientific conferences on the problems of gender and communicative behavior, which are carried out at Polotsk State University. Prominent scientists from Belarus, Russia, Ukraine, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, China, Italy, the United States of America, as well as teachers and students studying "Foreign Languages (English, German; English, French)" of Polotsk State University took part in these conferences since 2002.

Author's profile of the scientist

Publications

  • Matskevich, D. Socratic foundations in A. Conan Doyle’s writings / D. Matskevich, M. Poutrova // European and National Dimension in Research = Европейский и национальный контексты в научных исследованиях : electronic collected materials of XI Junior Researchers' Conference, Novopolotsk, May 23-24, 2019 : in 3 parts / Ministry of Education of Belarus, Polotsk State University ; ed. D. Lazouski [et al.]. - Novopolotsk : PSU, 2019. - Part 1 : Humanities. - P. 45-46.
  • Linkevich, A. The philosophy of Nietzsche as the basis for the world view in Germany of the twentieth century / A. Linkevich, M. Poutrova // European and National Dimension in Research = Европейский и национальный контексты в научных исследованиях : electronic collected materials of X Junior Researchers' Conference, Novopolotsk, May 10-11, 2018 : in 3 parts / Ministry of Education of Belarus, Polotsk State University ; ed. D. Lazouski [et al.]. - Novopolotsk : PSU, 2018. - Part 1 : Humanities. - P. 20-20.
  • Lashch, M. Colour term УwhiteФ and emotions in English / M. Lashch, M. Poutrova // European and National Dimension in Research = Европейский и национальный контексты в научных исследованиях : electronic collected materials of VIII Junior Researchers' Conference, Novopolotsk, April 27-28, 2016 : in 3 parts / Ministry of Education of Belarus, Polotsk State University ; ed. D. Lazouski [et al.]. - Novopolotsk : PSU, 2016. - Part 1 : Humanities. - P. 60-60.
  • Annamova, A. Generation gap in communication and language / A. Annamova, M. Poutrova // European and National Dimension in Research = Европейский и национальный контексты в научных исследованиях : electronic collected materials of IX Junior Researchers' Conference, Novopolotsk, April 26-27, 2017 : in 3 parts / Ministry of Education of Belarus, Polotsk State University ; ed. D. Lazouski [et al.]. - Novopolotsk : PSU, 2017. - Part 1 : Humanities. - P. 61-62.