Head of Section, Section of Germanic languages
Dina Nikulicheva was born in 1959 in Rome (Italy).
In 1981, she graduated from the Faculty of Philology of Moscow State University, where she studied Scandinavian languages in the Department of Germanic Philology (thesis - Non-correlative participle II in Old Icelandic. Supervisor – Olga Smirnitskaya, PhD, Dr.habil.).
Specialisation – Germanist-philologist, teacher.
After graduating from Lomonosov Moscow State University, she entered the graduate school of the Institute of Linguistics, Academy of Sciences of the USSR. In 1986, she defended her Ph.D. thesis The structure and functional features of the verb group in Danish (supervisor – Sergey Kuznetsov, Ph.D.). Since 1986, Dina Nikulicheva has been working at the Institute of Linguistics, first as Junior Researcher, then Researcher, Senior Researcher and Leading Researcher. Now she is Chief Researcher and the Head of the Section of Germanic Languages.
In 2000, she defended a doctorate thesis Syntagmatic relations in the continental Scandinavian languages, made on the records of modern Danish, Swedish and Norwegian languages.
Dina Nikulicheva is the organizer of the conferences "Čtenija pamjati" [Memory Readings] devoted to the corresponding member of the Russian Academy of Sciences Victoria Yartseva (2003, 2006, 2009, 2012). She is the executive editor of the "Materialy čtenija" [Readings Records] publication.
Under her leadership, four volumes have been published: «Teorija, istorija, tipologija jazykov» (2003); «Analitizm v jazykax različnyx tipov: sorok let spustja» (2006); «Kontrastivnye issledovanija jazykov mira» (2009); «Dinamičeskie processy v germanskix jazykax» (2012). Also, two collective monographs Grammatical categories of Germanic languages in an anthropocentric perspective (2017) and Germanic languages: text, corpus, translation (2020) were published.
She was the executive editor of the Scandinavian Languages series. She was also a member of the organizational committee of the international conference "Lingvistisk oversættelse" in 2000.
In 1998 – 1999, she was the principal investigator of the joint grant Language for Special Purposes, carried out with the support of the competition of young scientists of the Russian Academy of Sciences in 1997.
In 2001, she worked under a grant from the Danish Democratic Foundation at the Center for Translation Studies at the University of Copenhagen.
In 2008 and 2010, she worked under grants from the Russian Foundation for Humanities on preparing monographs related to the popular scientific series «Lingvističeskie i psixologičeskie strategii poliglotov» [Linguistic and psychological strategies of polyglots], which is devoted to the linguistic understanding of the phenomenon of polyglottism and its practical application in the study of foreign languages.
In 2019 – 2021, Dina led the joint research project "Antropocentričeskaja grammatika datskogo jazyka"[Anthropocentric grammar of the Danish language] (supported by The Russian Foundation for Basic Research, grant 19-012-00146).
Research interests: linguistics and related disciplines, for example, contrastive linguistics, linguo-pragmatics, translation theory, discourse study, problems at the intersection of linguistics and psychology, linguo-didactics.
The research results are of a theoretical and applied nature. The most famous works of Dina Nikulicheva are those in the field of the contrastive description of the Scandinavian languages. The purpose of these studies is to develop the principles of systemic comparison of closely related languages based on identifying their leading syntagmatic tendencies.
Dina Nikulicheva is the author of over 170 scientific papers. The main research results are published in the following journals: «Voprosy filologii», «Izvestija AN. Serija literatury i jazyka», «Voprosy jazykoznanija», «Voprosy psixolingvistiki», «Vestnik MGLU», «Skandinavskaja filologija. Scandinavica», «Kognitivnye issledovanija jazyka», «Årsberetning for Selskab for Nordisk Filologi»; «Unesco ALSD-LSP Newsletter»; «Danske studier»; «Perspectives. Studies in translatology».
Science Index
Selected publications
Books:
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Nikuličeva Dina. Kak najti svoj put’ k inostrannym jazykam. Lingvističeskie i psixologičeskie strategii poliglotov: učebno-metodičeskoe posobie. [How to find your way to foreign languages. Linguistic and psychological strategies of polyglots: study guide] (Monograph under the grant of Russian Foundation for Humanities 08-04-938-04/k) – 2009.- 304 p. Re-edition: 2011.- 300 p., 2013.- 300 p. (annotation and table of contents; abstract in the abstract journal of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences)
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Nikuličeva Dina. Govorim, čitaem, pišem: Lingvističeskie i psixologičeskie strategii poliglotov: učebno-metodičeskoe posobie. [Speak, Read, Write: Linguistic and Psychological Strategies of Polyglots: Study Guide] (Monograph under the grant of Russian Foundation for Humanities 11-44-93008k), 2013. – 288 p. – ISBN 978-5-9765-1462-1, ISBN 978-5-02-037806-3 (Nauka) (annotation and table of contents; abstract in the abstract journal of the Institute of Scientific Information for Social Sciences)
Articles:
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Kontrastiv analyse af de centralskandinaviske sprog: syntagmeopbygning // Årsberetning for Selskab for Nordisk Filologi. København: Selskab for Nordisk Filologi, 1996. - P.128-138.
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Translation in psychology: cross-cultural interpretation.// Unesco ALSD-LSP Newsletter, Vol.19 No2.(42). København 1996.- P. 4-11.
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The motivating power of language concepts in the sphere of language learning // UNESCO ALSD-LSP Newsletter, Copenhagen Business School. – 1998 .- P.23-28
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Sprogstruktur og sprogbeskrivelse // Danske studier, København: C.A.Reitzels forlag, 1997.- P. 15-31.
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Correlation between Time Perception and Time Conceptualization in Grammar Systems: English vs. Russian // Collection of Papers from the Third International Scientific Conference “Language, Culture and Society in Russian/English Studies” 26-27 June 2012. – London, University of London, 2013. – Pp 133-144. ISBN 978-5-88966-071-2.
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Per Durst-Andersen. Bag om sproget. Det kulturmentale univers i sprog og kommunikation. København, Hans Reitzels Forlag. 2011. 200 s. (рецензия) // Journal "Questions of Linguistic", 2013, №1 – p. 136-140.
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Language Interiorization in the Process of Language Learning: analyzing polyglots // Scientific Newsletter. Voronezh State University of Architecture and Civil Engineering. ISSN 2306-0573. Series «Modern Linguistic and Methodical-And-Didactic Researches», 2013, p. 72-76.
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Ordre eller opfordring? Direktive sproghandlinger i dansk-russiske filmoversættelser // Globe: A Journal of Language, Culture and Communication, an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal, Aalborg University, 2016, special issue 1. – Pp. 96-106. ISSN: 2246-8838, ISBN: 978-87-7112-247-3
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Conscious and Unconscious Time-Management in Language Learning: Monitoring Polyglot Alexander Arguelles. // The American Society of Geolinguistics. International Conference on Multilingual Proficiency: Language, Polyglossia and Polyglottery. (Baruch College of the City University of New-York. September 6-7, 2013) / Ed. by Wayne H. Finkey and Leonard R. Ashley. NY: The American Society of Geolinguistics, 2016. ISBN 978-1-57981-070-2 Pp.153-158.
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Čelovečeskij faktor v issledovanii germanskix jazykov. [The human factor in the study of Germanic languages] // Grammatičeskie kategorii germanskix jazykov v antropocentričeskoj perspektive. Kollektivnaja monografija [Grammatical categories of Germanic languages in an anthropocentric perspective], 2017. – P. 5-8.
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Datskie prostranstvennye predlogi kak otraženie verbal’noj orientacii govorjačšego vo vremeni. [Danish spatial prepositions as a reflection of the speaker's verbal orientation in time] // Grammatičeskie kategorii germanskix jazykov v antropocentričeskoj perspektive. Kollektivnaja monografija. [Grammatical categories of Germanic languages from an anthropocentric perspective. Collective monograph], 2017. – P. 26-39.
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Polisemija datskogo prostranstvennogo predloga OM v antropocentričeskom rassmotrenii. [Polysemy of the Danish spatial preposition OM in anthropocentric consideration] // «Metodologija sovremennyx semantičeskix issledovanij v razvitii i perspektive». Collective monograph in honour of O.Seliverstovа. – 304 s. – 2018. – P. 270-280. – ISBN 978-5-9765-3912-9 UDK-8137
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Osobennosti grammatičeskoj orientacii vo vremeni čerez prizmu datsko-russkogo perevoda. [Features of grammatical orientation in time through the prism of Danish-Russian translation] //Collective monograph "Germanskie jazyki: Tekst, korpus, perevod" [Germanic languages: Text, corpus, translation], 2020. – P. 5-19.
Dina Nikulicheva took part in writing collective monographs: «Istorija Danii. XX vek». [History of Denmark. 20th century] – 1998 ; «Jazyki mira. Germanskie jazyki. Kel’tskie jazyki». [Languages of the World. Germanic languages. Celtic languages] – 2000; «Analitizm germanskix jazykov v istoričeskom, tipologičeskom, kognitivnom i pragmatičeskom aspektax. [Analytics of Germanic languages in historical, typological, cognitive and pragmatic aspects] – 2005; «Metodologija sovremennyx semantičeskix issledovanij v razvitii i perspektive». [Methodology of modern semantic research in development and perspective] Coauthored monograph in honour of O.Seliverstovа. – 2018.
Current research topic
The aim of the current "Research of modern Scandinavian languages from an anthropocentric perspective" is to provide a systematic description of grammatical categories focused on the interaction of the addressee, the addressant and the denotative reality. The goal is to trace the manifestation of anthropocentric linguistic categories in grammatical categorization, spatial orientation, language-specific artistic metaphor, phraseology and cognitive subjects in national literature.
Teaching and academic advising
Since 1994, Dina Nikulicheva has been working as a professor at the Faculty of Translation and Interpreting of Moscow State Linguistic University. She gives seminars on translation practice and theory for senior students. She also lectures on theoretical phonetics, theoretical grammar and lexicology of the Danish language, as well as on the history, culture and linguistics of the Scandinavian countries. Dina Nikulicheva supervises graduate and postgraduate students. She is the developer of a methodology for creating strategies for polyglots in order to improve the efficiency of learning foreign languages.