معرفی
Dr. Margje Post is an Associate Professor in Russian Linguistics at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen. She specializes in spoken Russian dialects with focus on prosody, vowel reduction, pragmatic particles, and phonetic variation.
Her MA in Scandinavian Linguistics (contrastive study of Russian-Norwegian conjunctions) laid foundation for dialectological fieldwork in remote Russian villages since 2001. She teaches Russian language and linguistics through courses RUS100-RUS303, covering Russian dialectology, language variation, and linguistic field methods.
Research keywords:
- Russian dialect variation
- Pragmatic particles (particularly dak)
- Phonetic experimentation in urban youth speech
- Prosody of polar questions
- Bilingual speech patterns
- Comparative Moscow-Perm studies
- Corpus linguistics for spontaneous speech analysis
Key publication trends include:
- Collaborative work with Bistra Andreeva on question intonation
- 2022-2025 series on quantitative vowel reduction in Moscow/Perm speech
- Long-term dialect studies in Kola Peninsula villages since 2001
- 2015 comparative analysis of English loanwords in Russian corpora (2000-2011)
- Methodological innovations in phonetic fieldwork with elderly dialect speakers
Research groups:
- Language Data and Language Change
- Collaboration with University of Perm (2013-2017)
- Editorial work for Slavica Bergensia series
Fieldwork expeditions to Varzuga, Lozovo, and Kola Peninsula villages since 2001, recording spontaneous speech and developing ELAN sound archives (hdl.handle.net/11509/150). Current projects include comparative Moscow-Perm phonetic studies and sociolinguistic mapping of Russian language choice in multilingual regions.
