Larysa Taranenko is a Doctor of Philology, Professor at the Department of Theory, Practice and Translation of English, National Technical University of Ukraine “Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”.
In 1996 she graduated from the English Faculty, Kyiv State Linguistic University (at present – Kyiv National Linguistic University).
In 2003 she defended her thesis for a candidate degree in philology “Prosodic Means in Realization of English Prosaic Fable Cohesion: An Experimental Phonetic Study”, supervised by Prof. Alla Kalyta.
In 2016 she defended her thesis for a doctoral degree in philology “Prosodic Means Actualizing English Small Form Folk Texts (an Experimental Phonetic Study)”, supervised by Prof. Alla Kalyta.
The current record of her teaching and scientific experience counts more than 20 years in the following universities:
– Kyiv National Linguistic University:
from 1996 to 2006 as a lecturer, senior lecturer and Associate Professor at the Department of English Phonetics;
from 2006 to 2007 – Head of the Department of the English Language, Translators’ Faculty.
– State University of Transport Economy and Technology:
from 2007 to 2008 – Associate Professor at the Department of Ukrainian and Foreign Languages;
– National Technical University of Ukraine “KPI”:
from 2008 to December 2016 – Associate Professor at the Department of Theory, Practice and Translation of English, Linguistics Faculty;
from 2019 to present – Professor at the Department of Theory, Practice and Translation of French, Linguistics Faculty.
Contact information:
larysataranenko@gmail.com
taranenko.org.ua
Teaching Activities:
Within the period of her teaching career Larysa Taranenko was lecturing on Practical and Theoretical English Phonetics (Kyiv National Linguistic University), the course of Business English, Contrastive Grammar of English and Ukrainian, Grammatical Aspects of Translation as well as the course for master’s students on sociolinguistic variations in present-day English pronunciation (Igor Sikorsky Kyiv Polytechnic Institute”).
Areas of Research Interests:
Her research interests include the fields of general linguistics, English phonetics, phonostylistics, cognitive phonetics, intonology, text linguistics, pragmatics, folklore studies, speech energetics, synergetic aspects of speech, subliminal influence on the recipient.
The record of her theoretical works includes: classification of functional, structural and semantic features of an English prosaic fable; a model of the mechanism of its actualization in communication; algorithmic models of plot development of English fables with positive and negative ethical ideas; a generalized model of the literary genres’ genesis; a generalized graphical model of the conceptual domain of small form folklore texts of different genres; typical algorithmic models of the plot structure of English folk riddles, proverbs, fairy tales, parables, myths, legends and anecdotes; a synergetic model of the psycho-energetic mechanism of a folk text’s subliminal influence on the recipient; a cognitive-and-creative model of riddle decoding by a recipient; synergetic models of the phonoconcept self-development; energy-grams of the text’s oral actualization; a quantitative K-criterion of the texts’ emotional and pragmatic potentials (co-authored with Alla Kalyta).
She supervises graduate, master’s and PhD students as well as reviews scientific and methodological works.
Publications:
Her scientific research has resulted in publication of more than 180 works of experimental, theoretical and methodological levels, including 3 monographs, 3 dictionaries, 4 manuals, more than 100 articles as well as conference abstracts.
The list of publications by Larysa Taranenko
Monographs:
Dictionaries:
Manuals:
Papers published in the international WoS journals:
Papers published in foreign journals:
Papers published in Ukraine:
Advanced Training:
Larysa Taranenko took a year’s training in the USA (University of Alaska, Anchorage); completed postgraduate courses at the Institute for postgraduate studies at NTUU “KPI” (02.03.-05.04.2010; 27.10-15.12.2015), at Potebnya Linguistics Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine within the framework of the VIIth International Summer School “East Slavic languages and literature in historical and cultural contexts, cognitive linguistics and conceptual research” (9.-19.07.2012), the course on the key issues of Germanic and Romance Linguistics at Lesya Ukrainka Eastern European National University (Lutsk, 13-15 June 2014 and 7.05.2019–2.06.2019); attended the courses by Professor M. Burke “Rhetoric and Persuasion” (25-27.09.2012, Center for Cognitive and Semiotic Studies, Kyiv, KNLU); by Professor Dr. B. Pompino-Marschall “The current state of the phonological theory development” (Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany, 15.10-4.11.2012), by Professor S. Zhabotinska “Schools of cognitive linguistics” (5-8.02.2013, Kyiv, KNLU, Ukrainian Association of Cognitive Linguistics and Poetics); Teachers’ Training Course at BLS English School, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, UK, 13.08.2017 – 22.08.2017); A.S. Makarenko Sumy State Pedagogical University (1.11.2019 – 20.12.2019).
Organizational activities
Larysa Taranenko is a member of “Ukrainian Association of Cognitive Linguistics and Poetics”, International linguistic society «SocietasLinguisticaEuropaea» (https://societaslinguistica.eu/members/) and Kyiv School of Phonetics (https://terraludens.org).