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Biography:
Valentyna Skybina, Professor Emeritus at Zaporizhzhyia Medical University, Ukraine, is an accomplished scholar and educator. For years, she has been a noteworthy leader in university education serving as a Chair (English Philology), Dean (Faculty of Foreign Philology), Director (English Language Teaching Centre). Throughout her career, she has been driven by passion for learning/teaching and research. She taught a broad variety of courses in general and applied linguistics, supervised students’ course and diploma papers as well as master’s theses. She also supervised 10 successfully defended PhD dissertations in linguistics and one Dr. Habilitation thesis. Currently, she is advising on a Dr. Habilitation project in English lexicography.
She has a PhD and Dr. Habilitation in English Philology, has been publishing internationally and presented at conferences and congresses in 19 countries around the world.
She has been an avid reader since early childhood. She also loves spending time with dogs and horses. Most of all, she believes that family is of fundamental importance.
Current research areas:
Transformation of English into a pluricentric langauge (complex adaptive systems approach)
English medical terminography
Lexicography of the varieties of English
Recent scholarly activity:
The latest presentation:
• Multimodal News in Psycholinguistic Perspective: Russian-Ukrainian War in Ukrainian Messengers. (Co-authored with Iryna Shevchenko & Iryna Romanova). Paper presented at the International Conference Multimodality and Transmediality: cognitive, pragmatic, and semiotic vantages. V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, Ukraine, 22-23 April, 2022 (online)
• Modeling English as a Pluricentric Language. Paper presented at the International Conference Languages, Nations, Cultures: Pluricentric Languages in Context(s). Stockholm, Sweden, 22-24 May 2019.
• New Englishes through the Lens of Lexicography. (Co-authord with Nataliya Bytko). Paper presented at the International Conference Languages, Nations, Cultures: Pluricentric Languages in Context(s). Stockholm, Sweden, 22-24 May 2019.
• Lexicographic Response to the Genesis of New Englishes. (Co-authord with Nataliya Bytko). Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology. Santa Margherita Ligure, Italy, June 20-22, 2018.
• Dictionary in History/History in Dictionary: On Australian Diachronic Lexicography. Paper presented at the 24th annual Midwestern Conference on Literature, Language and Media (MCLLM). Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, IL, USA, 2-3 April 2018.
• Modeling Pluricentrization: A Complex Adaptive Systems Approach. Paper presented at 22nd Conference of the International Association of World Englishes. Local and Global Context of World Englishes. Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA, June 30 – July 2, 2017.
Recent publications:
• Academic editor: Gordienko, O.V. (2021). English-language medical lexicography: past experience and present challenges. [Anglomovna Medychna Lexicographiya: dosvid mynulogo i vyklyky syogodennya]. Zaporizhzhya: ZSMU, 508 p. (Monograph)
- The Raj English in historical lexicography. 2019. (Co-authord with Nataliya Bytko)// (Weber, Brigitte (Ed.) The linguistic Heritage of Colonial Practice. Berlin/Boston: De Gruyter, P. 191-218.
• Encyclopedic definitions in language dictionaries - a treasury of culture. 2015. (Co-authord with Nataliya Bytko)// Logos et Littera: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Text. University of Montenegro, Issue 2, P. 28-44. http://www.ll.ac.me/drugi%20broj/radovi/3%20Skybina,%20Bytko,%20Encyclop...
• Australian Diachronic Dictionaries – A Cultural Portrait of Australia. // Karpova O., Kartashkova F. (Eds.) 2015. Life Beyond Dictionaries. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. P. 42-54.
• Paradigms of English Lexicography: International Paradigm (Chapter Two). 2013.// Karpova O., Kartashkova F. (Eds.) 2013. Multi-disciplinary Lexicography: Traditions and Challenges of the XXIst Century. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, P. 11-26.
• On Developmental Mechanisms in Pluricentric Languages. 2011. Bulletin of Kiev National Linguistic University. V.14, №1. P. 121-137.
• Skybina V. I. Dictionary in History/History in Dictionary: On Australian Diachronic Lexicography // Ivanovo School of Lexicography: Traditions and Innovations. Ivanovo: Ivanovo State University (Ивановская лексикографическая школа: традиции и инновации: сб. науч. ст., посвященный юбилею научного руководителя школы, заслуженного работника Высшей школы РФ, доктора филологических наук, профессора Ольги Михайловны Карповой / Отв. ред. Ф. И. Карташкова. Иваново: Иван. гос. ун-т, 2011.) P. 237-248.
Forthcoming research:
General theory of the English language varieties lexicographuc description
Other activities:
DISSERTATIONS DEFENDED UNDER MY SUPERVISION
• Gordiyenko, Olena V. Terminological lexicography in the formation of the global scientific field of medicine (based on English medical dictionaries). Thesis Dr. Habilitation thesis in Philology. Zaporizhzhia National University, Zaporizhzhia, 2021.
• Luzhanitsa, Elena. Genesis of the North-East England Urban Dialects (based on the material of Tyneside English). PhD thesis in Philology. Odesa Mechnikov National University, 2011.
• Gordienko, Elena. Ethno-linguistic Aspects of the Genesis of Canadian English Lexicography. PhD thesis in Philology. Odesa Mechnikov National University, 2010.
• Domnich, Olga. Loan Words in Terms of Contact Linguistics and the Theory of Lexicography (based on aboriginal borrowings in Canadian, Australian, and New Zealand English). PhD thesis in Philology. Odesa Mechnikov National University, 2010.
• Bytko, Natali. Borrowings as a Means of English Conceptual and Lexical Systems Adaptation to New Milieu (based on the borrowings from autochthonous languages into Canadian and New Zealand varieties of English). PhD thesis in Philology. Odesa Mechnikov National University, 2008.
• Myzya, Evgenii. Toponyms and Methods of their Lexicographic Description in English Dictionaries. PhD thesis in Philology. Odesa Mechnikov National University, 2007.
• Galutskikh, Iryna. Evolution of English and German Historical Core Vocabulary in the 8th – 20th Centuries (structural, semantic and functional analysis). PhD thesis in Philology. V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 2007.
• Fogel, Anna. Structure, Semantics, and Lexicographic Presentation of English Automobile Terminology. PhD thesis in Philology. Zaporizhzhia National University, 2005.
• Kozlova, Tetyana. Dynamics of the English Lexis Evolution in Australia: Ethnolinguistic Aspect. PhD thesis in Philology. V.N. Karazin Kharkiv National University, 2001.
• Golub, Yuliya. Systemic Relations in English Lexis and their Representation in Lexicography. PhD thesis in Philology. Odesa Mechnikov National University, 1998.
• Dybchinska, Yana. Regional Lexicography of English: State of the Art and Prospects for Future Development. PhD thesis in Philology. Odesa Mechnikov National University, 1997.
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