Valentina Postovalova

Chief Researcher, Section of Theoretical Linguistics

PhD, Dr.habil., Prof.

Employed at the Institute of Linguistics since 1967.

Led the special group "Philosophical questions in linguistics" at the Institute in 1988-1994.

Member of the editorial board for the scientific journal "Metafizika" [Metaphysics], section "Liberal cognition and education" since 2014. The journal is peer-reviewed at the Higher Attestation Commission since 2016.

Education and theses

Graduated cum laude from the Rostov Pedagogical Institute, Faculty of the Russian Language, Literature, and the German Language. Did her postgraduate studies at the Institute of Linguistics RAS, General Linguistics major. Earned her PhD degree in 1967, thesis Fonologičeskaja struktura sloga (K metodike opisanija) [The phonological structure of a syllable (on the description methodology)]. Earned her Dr.habil. degree in 1989, thesis Lingvističeskaja gipoteza i ee obosnovanie [Linguistic hypothesis and its justification].

Research interests: phonology, linguistic philosophy, historiography of linguistics, hermeneutics, religious philosophy, conceptology, theology in linguistics.

Main lines of research: methodology of the scientific knowledge. Integral paradigms and directions of research in liberal arts. Linguistic aspects of a religious perspective and spiritual experiences (specifically Orthodox Christianity). History and hermeneutics of the philosophy of linguistics and main works of the field (Wilheld Humboldt and his doctrine, linguistic relativity hypothesis, Ferdinand de Saussure and his school of thought, Alexei Losev and the Russian uni-totality philosophy). Analytical descriptions of linguistic and meta-linguistic views of modern Russian linguists (Tatyana Bulygina, Alexander Reformatsky, Boris Serebrennikov, Yuri Stepanov, Veronika Teliya).

Science Index

Selected publications

  • Istoričeskaja fonologija i ee osnovanija: Opyt logiko-metodologičeskogo analiza [Historical phonology and its foundation: logical methodological analysis]. Moscow, Nauka, 1978. P. 202.
  • Jazyk kak dejatel’nost’: Opyt interpretacii koncepcii V. Gumbol’dta [Language as an activity: interpreting William Humboldt's concepts]. Leont’ev, A (Ed.). Moscow, Nauka, 1982. P. 222.
  • Fonologija [Phonology]. Serebrennikov, B. (Ed.). 2nd edition, edited and extended. Moscow, KomKniga, 2006. P. 128.
  • Istoričeskaja fonologija i ee osnovanija. Opyt logiko-metodologičeskogo analiza [Historical phonology and its foundation: logical methodological analysis]. Serebrennikov, B. (Ed.). 2nd edition, extended. Moscow, KomKniga, 2006. P. 232.
  • Jazyk kak dejatel’nost’. Opyt interpretacii koncepcii Vil’gel’ma fon Gumbol’dta [Language as an activity: interpreting William Humboldt's concepts]. 2nd edition, edited and extended. Moscow, LENAND, 2014. P. 256.
  • Nauka o jazyke v svete ideala cel’nogo znanija: V poiskax integral’nyx paradigm [Linguistitcs in light of holistic knowledge: Searching for integral paradigms]. Moscow, LENAND, 2016. P. 272.
  • Germenevtičeskie materialy k novomu izdaniju knigi «Filosofija imeni» A.F. Loseva: Losev A.F. Filosofija imeni [Hermeneutic materials for the new edition of Alexei Losev's "Philosophy of the name"] / A.F. Losev; Vstupitel’naja stat’ja, postraničnyj kommentarij, konceptual’nyj slovar’ i spravočnyj apparat V. I. Postovalovoj [Introduction, commentary, dictionary of concepts]. Saint Petersburg: Publishing house Olega Abyško, 2016. P. 672. Hermeneutic materials: P. 5-37, 235-660.
  • Jazyk i miroponimanie: Opyt lingvofilosofskoj interpretacii [Language and understanding the world: interpretation though linguistic philosophy] . Moscow, LENAND, 2017. P. 312..
  • Jazyk kak duxovnaja real’nost’. Učenie ob imeni i molitve v pravoslavnoj tradicii (istoki, napravlenija, konceptual’noe razvitie) [Language as a spiritual reality. On the name and prayer in the Orthodox tradition (origins, schools of thought, conceptual development)]. Moscow, Kul’turnaja revoljucija, 2019. P. 532.
  • Fonologija [Phonology] // Občšee jazykoznanie [General Linguistics]. Moscow, Nauka, 1972. Translated into Bulgarian. P. 120-199.
  • Die Phonologie // Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft. Band II. Die innere Struktur der Sprache. P. Berlin: Arademie-Verlag, 1975. P. 94-159.
  • Lingvističeskaja gipoteza v aspekte naukovedenija [Linguistic hypothesis in science studies] // Gipoteza v sovremennoj lingvistike [Hypothesis in Modern Linguistics]. Moscow, Nauka, 1980. P..14-89 (4 p.l.). Format 84x108 1 /32. Tiraž 2950 èkz. ISBN otsutstvuet.
  • Kartina mira v žiznedejatel’nosti čeloveka [The worldview through human activity] // Čelovečeskij faktor v jazyke: Jazyk i kartina mira [Human factor in language: Language and worldview] / Serebrennikov, B. (Ed.). Moscow, Nauka, 1988. P.8-69.
  • Puti i principy transferizacii znanija v gumanitarnyx naukax [Pathways and principles of transferring knowledge in humanities] // Lingvistika i semiotika kul’turnyx transferov: metody, principy, texnologii [Linguistics and semiotics of cultural transfers: methodology, principles, technologies]. Fečšenko, V. (Ed.). Moscow, Kul’turnaja revoljucija, 2016. P. 36-60.
  • Problema vzaimoponimanija v gumanitarnom poznanii i občšenii v uslovijax «konceptual’nogo mnogojazyčija» [Understanding others in liberal cognition and communication during "conceptual multi-knowledge"] // Lingvistika i semiotika kul’turnyx transferov: metody, principy, texnologii. [Linguistics and semiotics of cultural transfers: methodology, principles, technologies]. Fečšenko, V. (Ed.). Moscow, Kul’turnaja revoljucija, 2016. P. 86-123.