Elena Kondrashkina

Senior Researcher, Research Center on Ethnic and Language Relations

PhD

PhD (1978), a specialist in sociolinguistics.

Born on the 10th of April, 1935, in Moscow.

Kondrashkina graduated from the Institute of Oriental Languages of Lomonosov Moscow State University (1960) and specialised in the Chinese language and literature. From 1962 to 1966 and then from 1971 to 1975, she was living in Indonesia, as her husband had been sent to work there. She got her PhD after presenting her thesis "Sociolingvističeskie aspekty razvitija indonezijskogo jazyka v period nezavisimosti (1945-1976gg.)" [Sociolinguistic aspects of the development of the Indonesian language during the time of independence] (1965-1976)].

From 1960 to May 1990, she worked in the Department of Languages at the Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, in June 1990 she started working in the Section of Sociolinguistics (now the Research Center on Ethnic and Language Relations) of the Institute of Linguistics at the Russian Academy of Sciences.

She participated in writing the following collective works of the Research Center on Ethnic and Language Relations: «Pis’mennye jazyki mira: jazyki Rossijskoj Federacii» [Written languages of the world: the languages of the Russian Federation]; «Spravočnik jazykov narodov Rossii» [A handbook of Russian peoples] , Informacionnaja sistema «Jazyki Rossii: sociolingvističeskij portret» [The languages of Russia: a sociolinguistic portrait] (a grant of the Russian Science Foundation for Humanities), «Vzaimodejstvie raznostrukturnyx jazykov: areal’nyj i vremennoj aspekty» [Interaction between languages of different structures: areal and historical aspects] (the Programme for Basic Research of the Presidium of the Russian Academy of Sciences); «Jazyki Rossii v kontekste jazykov mira: tipologija i dinamika jazykovyx situacij v mnogonacional’nom gosudarstve» [The languages of Russia within the context of world languages: typology and dynamics of the language situation in a multinational state] (a grant of the Russian Science Foundation for Humanities, Sociolingvističeskaja ènciklopedija [Encyclopaedia of Sociolinguistics] (a grant of the Russian Science Foundation for Humanities), «Jazyki Rossii v èpoxu globalizacii» [The languages of Russia in the era of globalisation] (a grant of the Russian Science Foundation for Humanities).

Science Index

Selected publications

 

  • Indonezija: jazykovaja situacija i jazykovaja politika [Indonesia: the language situation and the language policy]. Moscow. 1986. 154 p.
  • Dinamika funkcional’nogo razvitija marijskogo jazyka [Dynamics of the functional development of the Mari language]. Moscow. 2008. 180 p.
  • «Language Vitality of the Peoples of Russia // Abstacts & Proceedings // 6-th International Conference of Education, Social Sciences and Humanities, 24-26 june 2019, Istambul, Turkey. Co-authored by Vida Mikhalchenko and Svetlana Kirilenko.
  • «Language Policy in modern Russia: Language Diversity and Linguistic Unity» // 6-th International Conference of Education, Social Sciences and Humanities, 24-26 june 2019, Istambul, Turkey. Co-authored by Vida Mikhalchenko and Svetlana Kirilenko.
  • Kondrashkina E., Kudryavtseva R., Belyaeva T.,Orlova O., Gavrilova V. « Language in the Context of Ethnic Self-Definition and Social Communication on Modern Student Youth of the Mari El Republic» //Abstracts & Proceedings of INTCESS 2019 -6 th International Conference on Education and Social Sciences, 4 -6 February 2019, Dubai, UAE.
  • «Forecasting the Functional Development of Languages in Russia: Majority, Minority, Diasporas Languages» // Abstracts & Proceedings of INTCESS 2020 -7 th International Conference on Education and Social Sciences, 20-22 January 2020, Dubai, UAE. Co-authored by Vida Mikhalchenko and Svetlana Kirilenko.
  • «Ultra-ethnic and Inter-ethnic Language Conflicts in the Russian Federation»// Abstracts & Proceedings of INTCESS 2020 -7 th International Conference on  Education and Social Sciences, 20-22 January 2020, Dubai, UAE. Co-authored by Vida Mikhalchenko and Svetlana Kirilenko.

Grants

  1. № 10-04-14019. Conference "Language and society in modern Russia and other countries", principal investigator – Vida Mikhalchenko. 2010.
  2. № 09-04-00255а "Language and society", principal investigator – Vida Mikhalchenko, 2009-2011.
  3. № 11-04-00521 "Languages within the context of societal development", principal investigator  Vida Mikhalchenko, 2011-2013.
  4. № 12-04-00273 "Language policies and the functional development of the languages of Russian peoples', principal investigator – Aisa Bitkeeva, 2012-2014.
  5. 14-04-00296 "The languages of Russia in the era of globalisation", principal investigator – Veda Mikchalchenko, 2014-2016.
  6. № 14-04-12023 "The informational system "Language diversity in Russia", principal investigator – Maria Goriacheva. 2014-2016.
  7. № 14-04-00434а "Solving national and linguistic problems in the world of today. The Russian language", principal investigator – full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Evgeny Chelyshev, 2014-2016.
  8. № 15-34-11114 "Solving national and linguistic problems as a factor in strengthening Russia's national security", principal investigator – full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Evgeny Chelyshev, 2015-2017.
  9. № 18-012-00846А (Russian Foundation for Basic Research) "The Russian language in Russia's polyethnic regions: the legal issues" (2018-2020), principal investigator – a full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Evgeny Chelyshev.

Editing board membership

Kondrashkina is a member of the editing board of the book "Rešenie nacional’no-jazykovyx voprosov v sovremennom mire. Strany SNG i Baltii" [Solving National and Lingustic Questions in the World of Today. The Baltic and CIS countries]. Moscow. 2010. Editor - full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Evgeny Chelyshev.

She is also the executive secretary of the editing board of the book "Rešenie nacional’no-jazykovyx voprosov kak faktor ukreplenija nacional’noj bezopasnosti Rossii" [Solving National and Linguistic Problems as a Factor in Strengthening Russia's National Security]. Moscow. 2017. Editor - full member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Evgeny Chelyshev.
 

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