Anna Viatova

My main interests lie within applied linguistics/ psycholinguistics, namely in bilingualism and language acquisition, as well political discourse and education policy. 

My current PhD project examines emotional processing in bilinguals with a particular focus on pragmatics of persuasion and approached with Relevance Theory as general theory of cognition.

Conference record:

- speaker at the XVII International Symposium of Psycholinguistics 2025, Barcelona.

- speaker at the 12th European Conference on Language Learning, July 2024, UCL (London);

- speaker at University of Oxford STORIES conference, March 2024; 

- in December 2023, organised and held a conference for MSc Applied Linguistics and Second Language Acquisition 2023 cohort. The conference was supported by Department of Education, University of Oxford, and was actively promoted gaining 120+ sign-ups and 50+ online conference participants. Talks covered the pragmatics of persuasion, typefaces for neurodivergent individuals, scripts in phonetic processing of L2 Japanese, AI and human writing, and songs in early years L2 learning;

- speaker at Moscow State University “Science Intensive”, December 2023, MSU (Moscow);

- accepted to 10th International Conference on Intercultural Pragmatics and Communication 2024, University of Pisa;

Published work:

– Viatova, A. (2023). Can persuasion be a teachable component of EFL pragmatics? [Master's thesis]. University of Oxford.

– Viatova, A. The dynamics of ‘friend-foe’ opposition in political discourse. // Relevant social development issues. Sociological and philosophical research materials: Northern Federal University of Lomonosov press, 2021;

– Viatova, A. The study of coping strategies among SUSHU students. // Higher Education Research Findings in primary scientific fields. Aeterna publishing, Ufa, 2018;