Honoured Worker of the Ministry of Education of Russian Federation,
Honorary Professor of Herzen State Pedagogical University
Candidate of Philology,
Professor of the Department of English Philology

Qualifications / Education
Leningrad State University, Diploma (Major in English Philology)
Leningrad State University, Candidate of Philology degree (1975)

Research Interests
English language history, Old Germanic languages, pragmalinguistics, language policy and discourse analysis, interpersonal communication, cognitive semantics

Courses
— English Language History
— Introduction to Germanic Philology
— Pragmasemantics and Communication Theory
— Linguistic, Cognitive and Pragmatic Aspects of Communication

Professional Activities and Memberships
— Academic Secretary of the Dissertation Board (The committee for the Doctor of Philology Degree) at Herzen State Pedagogical University (till 2021);
— member of the University Academic Council «Germanic and Roman Language Studies»
— member of RALC (The Russian Cognitive Linguists Association)

Selected Publications

In Russian:
Communication Theory: A Pragmatic Aspect. St.Petersburg, 2003.
Cognitive and Pragmasemantic Characteristics of Linguistic Units in Discourse. St.Petersburg, 2005.
Metalanguage, Metacommunication, Metatext (concerning extention). Cognitive Linguistic Studies. Moscow, 2009

Recent papers and books (see the list here)

In English:
Gurochkina, A. (2002).  The Semantics of the Old English Verb habban. Semantic, Lexical, Pragmatic and Cultural Studies of Old English and Anglo-Saxon. England/ Helsinki

Gurochkina, A.  (2005). The Role of Non-verbal communication in Discourse. 5th International Congress of the International Society of Applied Linguistics and Psycholinguistics (ISAPL), University of Caen, France.

Gurochkina, A. (2007). Argumentative Discourse of Parliamentary Debate. Respectus Philologicus No.7 (12) Vilniaus, 2007.

Gurochkina, A. (2012). Conflict and Tolerance in Communication / A. Gurochkina // Sino-US English Teaching. – 2012. – Vol. 9. – No 2. – P. 946-951. – EDN SDNSVB.

Gurochkina, A., Shchirova I. (2020). Phraseological meaning-making and its interpretation in the perspective of cognitive paradigm and autopoesis // Науковий вісник Ужгородського університету. Серія: Філологія. – 2020. – No 1(43). – P. 106-110. – EDN SPDMKM.