Sona Hakobyan

Pragmatic professional with a solid experience in educational leadership roles. Collaborative and dedicated in building and leading motivated individuals. Received PhD in Applied Linguistics from Yerevan State Linguistic University in 2015.Served as a lecturer at Eurasia International University, European University of Armenia and as a visiting professor at Santiago de Compostela University, Spain. Additionally, worked as a Research Fellow at the University of Padova, Italy, and completed professional development programs at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. With a passion for advancing the field of linguistics, bring a deep commitment to research excellence, interdisciplinary collaboration, and capacity-building initiatives. Teaching and research interests lie in the fields of discourse studies, semantics, pragmatics academic writing and eco-linguistics.

• Date of Birth: 07/04/88
• Gender: Female
• Nationality: Armenian

• Content and Language Integrated Learning in the Context of Higher Education, 2021, Collection of Scientific articles 12(01) European University, pp. 17-29, Armenian
• The "Classroom Action Research" approach as a tool for the effectiveness of continuous teacher education, 2021, Eurasia International University, Bulletin 1, Yerevan, pp. 134-143
• Critical discourse analysis of metaphors applied in the US political discourse (Based on Messages on the Armenian Genocide), 2020, Eurasia International University, Bulletin 1, Yerevan, p. 172-183
• Event semantics analysis of the US official statements on the events of 1915, 2019, Eurasia International University, Bulletin 1, Yerevan, pp. 104-120
• Critical discourse and event semantics analyses of Dr. Trump`s statement on the Armenian genocide, 2018, AASE, Yerevan, pp. 138-146
• The avoidance of the term "Genocide" by the United States. Linguistic strategies used in the context of maneuvering genocide recognition, 2016, Bulletin, 1 EIU Publishing House, Yerevan, pp. 84-93
• The US evasive discourse on the Armenian Genocide from the point of view of event decomposition, 2017, Bulletin, Philology, 1 (40) "YSLU Lingva" Publishing House, Yerevan, pp. 330-335
• Events as grammatical objects (Linguistic study of the events of 1915 presented in the US discourse), 2015, Bulletin, Philology, 1 (32) "YSLU Lingva" publishing house, Yerevan, pp. 206-219
• The semantic analyzes of the Armenian Genocide in the American political discourse, 2014, Genocide Journal N 2 (1) Armenian Genocide Museum-Institute. publications, Yerevan, pp. 135-144
• The role and significance of semantic events in linguistics, 2013, Banber, Philology 1 (28) "YSLU Lingva Publishing House." Yerevan, pp. 230-238