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Title

Lecturer in Russian and Director, Russian Language Program

Degree

M.A., Bryn Mawr College

Field of Specialty

Bilingualism, bilingual code-switching, heritage languages (Russian)
Second language acquisition general and language specific (Russian)
Language policies in the former Soviet Republics

Contact Information

Shiffman Humanities Center 206
781-736-3223
idubinin@brandeis.edu

Irina Y Dubinina

Conducting research on the pragmatic skills of heritage speakers of Russian, specifically on how heritage speakers differ or are similar to native speakers in the production and understanding of requests

Publications

Dubinina, Irina and Malamud, S.. ""Emergent communicative norm in a contact language: indirect requests in Heritage Russian"." Linguistics Journal (2012). (forthcoming)

Dubinina, I. & Polinsky, M.. "Russkiy yazyk v SShA." The Russian Language Outside Russia. Moscow: RGGU, 2011 (forthcoming)

Dubinina, I. and Polinsky, M.. "Russian in the USA." Slavic Languages in Migration. Ed. M.Moser. Wien: University of Vienna, 2012

Dubinina, Irina. "How to ask for a favor: A pilot study in Heritage Russian pragmatics.." Instrumentarium of Linguistics: Sociolinguistic Approaches to Non-Standard Russian. vol. 40 Ed. A. Mustajoki, E.Protassova, and N. Vakhtin. Helsinki: University of Helsinki, 2011. 418-431.

in cooperation with Irina Dubinina, authors Maria Lekic, Dan Davidson, Kira Gore. Live from Russia. Second Edition ed. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt Publishing, 2009.

Dubinina, Irina Y. Prisposoblenie k interesam sobesednika: vybor jazyka dla mezhlichnostnogo obschenia v Respublike Moldova. Proc. of Russkii jazyk v Respublike Moldova: realii i perspectivy (Russian Language in the Republic of Moldova: realias and perspectives). Chishinau, Moldova: Tsentr russkoi kultury v RM, 2007.

Courses Taught