Degree

Doctor of Philology

Title

Professor, corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan Higher School, the scholar of Kazakh Academy of Pedagogical Science

Research work

Comparative lexicology and lexicography, comparative motivology and the development of motivational dictionaries based on the material of different languages.

Number of works

The author of more than 100 scientific articles, including 3 published international journals (Scopus), 4 monographs, co-author of 5 dictionaries.

Implementation of scientific projects of grant, program-targeted financing, on a contractual basis over the past 5 years

2012-2014 - Grant funding from the Ministry of Education and Science - "Kazakh Diaspora abroad (Finland, Germany, Poland, Great Britain)" and "National-cultural dominants of the Kazakh ethnic group in the aspect of interlanguage and intercultural interaction"; 2022-2024 - grant funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan – "Motivational reflection of children in the conditions of mono-bilingual personality formation"

Aigul Doszhanovna Zhakupova is a Doctor of Philology, Professor, winner of the State grant "The best University teacher – 2010", prepared 1 candidate of Sciences (Zhukenova A.K., 2010), 1 PhD (Temirova Zh.G., 2021). She is the author of more than 100 scientific articles, including 3 published international journals (Scopus), 4 monographs, co-author of 5 dictionaries. Aigul Zhakupova is the corresponding member of the National Academy of Sciences of Kazakhstan Higher School, the scholar of Kazakh Academy of Pedagogical Science. She is the head of scientific projects that received grant funding from the Ministry of Education and Science in 2012-2014. - "Kazakh Diaspora abroad (Finland, Germany, Poland, Great Britain)" and "National-cultural dominants of the Kazakh ethnic group in the aspect of interlanguage and intercultural interaction"; received grant funding from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Kazakhstan in 2022-2024 – "Motivational reflection of children in the conditions of mono-bilingual personality formation".

The sphere of scientific interests of Aigul Zhakupova is connected with the research in the field of comparative linguistics, cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics, linguoculturology, lexicography.

The main research area of Aigul Zhakupova is comparative lexicology and lexicography, in particular, comparative motivology and the development of motivational dictionaries based on the material of different languages. Comparative motivology is considered as a branch of comparative lexicology that studies motivated and unmotivated lexical units of a particular language in comparison with other languages to identify the universal and specific linguistic phenomenon as the phenomenon of word motivation. A feature of the approach is an appeal to the metalanguage consciousness of the speaker by conducting a large-scale psycholinguistic experiment. Within the framework of this direction, Aigul Zhakupova has been working for 25 years. She created a scientific school, which is called the "Kazakhstan motivological scientific school", since within the framework of this direction, scientific projects are carried out by scientists of the department, master's theses are defended, special monographs and scientific articles are published under her leadership.

Another important scientific direction is comparative lexicography. A graduate of Tomsk State University (1992), Aigul Zhakupova since her student days was involved in lexicographical work and as a graduate student of TSU worked in a professional team of lexicographers of Russian Language Department on the development of articles for motivational dictionaries under the guidance of Professor Blinova. She was a co–author of several lexicographic publications, the author of her own "Motivational-comparative dictionary of plant and bird names (based on the Kazakh and Russian languages)" (2007).

Aigul Zhakupova has been leading the doctoral students of Educational program "Russian Philology" for many years. So, in 2021, under her leadership and with the co-leadership of foreign Professor E.A. Yurina, a dissertation was successfully defended for the PhD degree of J.G.Temirova on the topic "Verbalization of key concepts in Rollan Seisenbaev’s artistic work".

Aigul Zhakupova conducts the following disciplines at the PhD program as Scientific dominants of Russian philology of the second half of the XX – the beginning of the XXI centuries; Theoretical and methodological foundations of the modern linguistics development, Metalanguage and meta-dictionary of linguistics.