Irena Vassileva

July 18, 2012 BSSE MEMBERS

Irena Vassileva, Prof., Dr. phil. habil.

Foreign Language Centre
European Polytechnic University

Email: vassileva_irena [at] hotmail.com

Research interests:

Applied linguistics, Contrastive linguistics, Text linguistics and discourse analysis, Sociolinguistics, Academic discourse rhetoric (English, German, Russian, Bulgarian, French), Languages for special purposes, Foreign language acquisition, Contact linguistics, Pragmatics, Translation theory and practice.

Subjects taught:

BA Courses:

  • English for architecture and civil engineering
  • English for Computer science and telecommunications
  • English for green energetics
  • Business English

Major publications:

Books:

  • Vassileva, Irena (2006) Author-Audience Interaction. A Cross-Cultural Perspective. Sankt Augustin: Asgard Verlag.
  • Vassileva, Irena (2002) Academic Discourse Rhetoric and the Bulgarian – English Interlanguage. Sofia: Tip-top Verlag.
  • Vassileva, Irena (2000) Who is the author? (A contrastive analysis of authorial presence in English, German, French, Russian and Bulgarian academic discourse). Sankt Augustin: Asgard Verlag.

Articles:

  • Vassileva, Irena (2010a) “Critical Book Reviews in German.” In: International Journal of Applied Linguistics, Vol. 20, N 3. Oslo: Novus Press. 354 – 3.
  • Vassileva, Irena, Philip Shaw (2009a) “Co-evolving academic rhetoric across culture; Britain, Bulgaria, Denmark, Germany in the 20th century.” In: Journal of Pragmatics 41. 290 – 305.
  • Vassileva, Irena (2009b) “Argumentative strategies in conference discussion sessions.” In: Eija Suomela-Salmi, Fred Dervin (eds.) Cross-Linguistic and Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Academic discourse. Amsterdam/Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 219 – 240.
  • Vassileva, Irena (2006a) “Der Zustrom des Englischen in Bulgarien – Ein Generationsproblem.” In: Muhr, Rudolf (ed.) Innovation und Kontinuit?t in Sprache und Kommunikation verschiedener Sprachkulturen. Wien: Peter Lang. 335 – 348.
  • Vassileva, Irena (2006b) “Metamorphosis: Conference Abstract, Conference Presentation, Published Paper.” In: John Flowerdew, Maurizio Gotti (eds.) Studies in Specialised Discourse. Berlin et al.: Peter Lang. 61 – 78.

Awards:

  • September 2012: Short-term research grant from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, University of Bonn, Germany.
  • June 2012: EEA grant – Reykjavik University, Iceland
  • May – December 2010: Research grant – “Bulgarian National Science Fund”. Project title: “Confrontation in Academic Communication”. Academic host: Prof. Dr. Heinrich P. Kelz. Language Centre, University of Bonn, Germany
  • March 2012: EEA grant for attending a course in “The International Office” – Reykjavik University, Iceland
  • June 2010: EEA grant for attending a course in “Academic writing” – Reykjavik University, Iceland
  • September 2009: Research grant – Canadian Studies Program. McGill University, Montreal, Canada
  • July 2004 – 2007: Research Fellow (unpaid), Centre for Semiotics, Technical University in Berlin, Germany
  • July 2003 – July 2004: Senior research fellow, Research Project “Digital Dictionary of German Collocations”, Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences, Berlin, Germany
  • March 2001 – March 2003: Research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Project title: “Author-Audience Interaction. A Cross-Cultural Perspective”. Academic hosts: Prof. Dr. Heinrich P. Kelz, University of Bonn, Prof. Dr. Klaus-Dieter Baumann, University of Leipzig. Language Centre, University of Bonn, Germany
  • September 2000 – July 2003: Research project financed by the Open Society Fund, Budapest. Project title: „Special Languages Research and Teaching”, University of Bonn, Germany
  • October 1998 – April 2000: Research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation. Project title: “The ‘I’ / ‘we’ Perspective in Cross-Cultural Academic Communication”. Academic host: Prof. Dr. Heinrich P. Kelz. Language Centre, University of Bonn, Germany
  • July 1996 – July 1998: Research project financed by the Open Society Fund/Research Support Scheme, Prague. Project title: „Academic Discourse Rhetoric: an English-Bulgarian Perspective“
  • May – August 1997: Research fellow of the German Exchange Service (DAAD). Project title: “Rhetorical Structure of Specialised Discourse in English, German, Russian and Bulgarian”. Academic host: Prof. Dr. Heinrich P. Kelz, Language Centre, University of Bonn, Germany
  • January 1997: Lancaster University, UK, Department of Applied Linguistics. Academic host: Prof. Norman Fairclough
  • July – August 1992: Plymouth University, UK, British Council Summer course in English for Specific Purposes (course design, materials design, needs analysis, syllabus design, ESP teaching methodology)

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