Koval Vladimir Ivanovich

Position

deputy director of the Confucius Institute

Degree

Doctor of Philology

Academic title

E-mail

vlad-kov@mail.ru

Doctor of Philology (1999), Professor (2001), Head of the Department of Russian, General and Slavic Linguistics at the Francis Skaryna Gomel State University (since September 1990).

Disciplines taught

  1. Modern Russian language. Lexicology. Phraseology. Lecture course.
  2. Russian vocabulary in linguistic and gender aspects
  3. Gender linguistics (From the series of TV programs "Conversations about the language")

Scientific interests

Author of more than two hundred scientific and educational articles, monographs, dictionaries and reference books in the field of Russian and East Slavic phraseology and lexicology, gender linguistics, ethnolinguistics and mythology. Publications in scientific journals of Russia, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Lithuania, Latvia, Germany. The participant of the XII, XIII, XIV and XV International Congresses of Slavic in Krakow (Poland), Ljubljana (Slovenia), Ohrid (Macedonia) and Minsk. Member of the Presidium of the BOOPRIA. In 1992, he taught Russian at Beijing Capital Pedagogical University.

Under the leadership of V.I. Koval protected 5 candidate dissertations in lexicology, phraseology and ethno-linguistics. During 2006–2015 He was a member of two dissertation defense councils at the Belarusian State University; he regularly acted as an opponent in PhD and doctoral dissertations. Since September 2015, he is a member of the Expert Council of the Higher Attestation Commission on Philological Sciences. He reviews monographs, collections of scientific articles and textbooks, and examines school textbooks on the Russian language.