Victor Raskin
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Victor Raskin is a distinguished professor of linguistics
at Purdue University
. He is the author of Semantic Mechanisms of Humor and Ontological Semantics and founding editor (now editor-at-large) of Humor, the journal for the International Society of Humor Studies.
He is an associate director and founding faculty member of CERIAS
at Purdue University
along with Gene Spafford
and Mikhail Atallah
.
, U.S.S.R. (now the Russian Federation). He has been married to Marina Bergelson since 1965; his daughter Sarah was born in 1982. He and his wife emigrated from the U.S.S.R. to Israel in 1973, and have been Israeli citizens since 1973. They moved to the U.S.A. in 1978, became permanent residents of the U.S.A. in 1979, and became U.S. citizens in 1984.
Linguistics
Linguistics is the scientific study of human language. Linguistics can be broadly broken into three categories or subfields of study: language form, language meaning, and language in context....
at Purdue University
Purdue University
Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...
. He is the author of Semantic Mechanisms of Humor and Ontological Semantics and founding editor (now editor-at-large) of Humor, the journal for the International Society of Humor Studies.
He is an associate director and founding faculty member of CERIAS
CERIAS
The Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security of Purdue University, USA, is a center for research and education in areas of information security for computing and communication infrastructures....
at Purdue University
Purdue University
Purdue University, located in West Lafayette, Indiana, U.S., is the flagship university of the six-campus Purdue University system. Purdue was founded on May 6, 1869, as a land-grant university when the Indiana General Assembly, taking advantage of the Morrill Act, accepted a donation of land and...
along with Gene Spafford
Gene Spafford
Eugene Howard Spafford , commonly known as Spaf, is a professor of computer science at Purdue University and a leading computer security expert....
and Mikhail Atallah
Mikhail Atallah
Mikhail Jibrayil Atallah is a Lebanese American computer scientist, a distinguished professor of computer science at Purdue University.-Biography:...
.
Biography
Victor Raskin was born in IrbitIrbit
Irbit is a town in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia, located from Yekaterinburg by train or by car on the right bank of the Nitsa River. It is crossed by long distance railway Yekaterinburg–Tavda–Ustye-Akha and by road traffic routes, directed to Kamyshlov, Artyomovsk, Turinsk, and Tyumen. Total area...
, U.S.S.R. (now the Russian Federation). He has been married to Marina Bergelson since 1965; his daughter Sarah was born in 1982. He and his wife emigrated from the U.S.S.R. to Israel in 1973, and have been Israeli citizens since 1973. They moved to the U.S.A. in 1978, became permanent residents of the U.S.A. in 1979, and became U.S. citizens in 1984.
Education
- 1970: Ph.D. in Structural, Computational, and Mathematical Linguistics, Moscow State UniversityMoscow State UniversityLomonosov Moscow State University , previously known as Lomonosov University or MSU , is the largest university in Russia. Founded in 1755, it also claims to be one of the oldest university in Russia and to have the tallest educational building in the world. Its current rector is Viktor Sadovnichiy...
, USSR - 1966: M.A./M.S. summa cum laude in Structural and Computational Linguistics, Moscow State University, USSR
- 1964: B.A./B.S. in Structural and Computational Linguistics, Moscow State University, USSR
Experience
- 1999–present Editor-at-Large, HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research
- 1998–present Charter Member, Internal Advisory Board, Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS), Purdue University
- 1994–present PI- and VP-level consultant on natural language and information technology for research laboratories and businesses
- 1980–present Professor of English and Linguistics, Purdue University
- 2000 President, International Society of Humor Research
- 1995-99 Chair, Graduate Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics, Purdue University
- 1987-99 Editor-in-Chief, HUMOR: International Journal of Humor Research
- 1979-99 Chair, Interdepartmental Program in Linguistics, Purdue University
- 1979-80 Associate Professor of English and Linguistics, Purdue University
- 1978-79 Associate Professor of English, Purdue University
- 1978 Visiting Professor of Linguistics, University of Michigan
- 1973-78 Senior Associate Professor of Russian and Philosophy, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
- 1973-78 Senior Associate Professor of Linguistics (half-time), Tel Aviv University, Israel
- 1966-73 From Lecturer to Acting Associate Professor of Linguistics, Moscow State University
- 1962-73 From Junior Assistant to Group Leader, Computational Linguistics Lab, Moscow State University
Solely authored books
- K teorii yazykovykh podsistem /Towards a Theory of Linguistic Subsystems/ (420 pp.), Moscow University Press, 1971
- Semantic Mechanisms of Humor (302 pp.), Dordrecht - Boston - Lancaster: D. Reidel, 1985
Co-authored books
- Metody semanticheskogo issledovaniya ogranichennogo podyazyka /Methods of Semantic Investigation of a Restricted Sublanguage/ (414 pp.), Moscow University Press, 1971 (with B. Gorodetsky)
- Slovari slovosochetaniy i chastotnye slovari slov ogranichennogo podyazyka /Dictionaries of Word Combinations and Dictionaries of Words with Frequencies of a Restricted Sublanguage/ (538 pp.), Moscow University Press, 1972 (with B. Y. Gorodetsky, A. E. Kibrik, L. S. Logakhina, G. V., Maksimova, and E. S. Prytkov)
- 200 zadach po yazykovedeniyu i matematike /200 Problems in Linguistics and Mathematics/ (252 pp.), Moscow University Press, 1972 (with Boris Gorodetsky)
- Produktivnoe slovoslozhenie v shugnanskom, vengerskom, saamskom, khinalugskom i lezginskom yazykakh: Rezultaty polevoy lingvistiki /Productive Word Compounding in Shugnan, Hungarian, Saami, Hinalug, and Lezghin: Field Linguistics Results (678 pp.). Moscow: Moscow University Press, 1974 (with Boris Gorodetsky—the book was confiscated and the run, apparently, destroyed after and because of Raskin's emigration in 1973).
- Language and Writing: Applications of Linguistics to Rhetoric and Composition (279 pp.), Norwood, NJ: Ablex, 1987 (with I. H. Weiser)
- Ontological Semantics (350 pp.). Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2004 (with Sergei Nirenburg).
Former students
- Christian F. Hempelmannhttp://homepage.mac.com/hempelma/
- Salvatore AttardoSalvatore AttardoSalvatore Attardo is a full professor at Texas A & M University-Commerce and the editor-in-chief of Humor, the journal for the International Society of Humor Research. He studied at Purdue University under Victor Raskin and extended Raskin's script-based semantic theory of humor into the general...
http://cc.ysu.edu/~sattardo/vita.pdf - Sergei Nirenburghttp://ilit.umbc.edu/CV-Nirenburg.pdf
- Dallin D. OaksDallin D. OaksDallin Dixon Oaks is a linguistics professor at Brigham Young University . He specializes in English linguistics.Oaks earned a BA in English teaching from BYU in 1984. From 1985 to 1987 Oaks was a teacher of English as a second language at Kaysville Junior High School and Davis High School in...
http://linguistics.byu.edu/directory/ddo/