My previous research was dedicated to the stylistic peculiarities of the British official documents addressing professional audience and general public. Due to the recent tendencies towards a greater transparency of the governmental bodies activities in the UK; the existence of two versions of documents (full paper and easy-read), stylistic characteristics of this text type have undergone considerable qualitative and quantitative transformations.

The purpose of my ongoing Ph.D. research is to determine the main features of register usage in the written language of bilingual ‘second generation’ in Israel i.e., those people who were born or grew up in Israel after their families moved here from either Russian- or English-speaking countries. The research focuses on Russian-Hebrew and English-Hebrew bilinguals aiming at the evaluation of the difference between their formal and informal writing in Russian and in English in comparison with monolingual speakers of Russian and English. Russian and English are considered to be the heritage languages of the bilingual second-generation adults in Israel.

 My hypothesis is that there will be a difference between the way adult ‘second-generation’ bilinguals in Israel use formal and informal written registers in their heritage language and the way monolingual speakers of this language use formal and informal written registers. It is assumed that the general informality which is common in Israeli society might influence the sensitivity of the speakers to different degrees of formality in written registers. Bilingual participants come from a wide range of social backgrounds to enable the analysis of the sociocultural factors influencing the usage of formal and informal written registers.

Research interests: sociolinguistics, register studies, heritage languages, corpus linguistics 

Scholarships: Klausner Foundation (2017-2022)