Georgy Georgievich Khazagerov (; born 29 June 1949) is a Russian scholar and Professor of Russian Language Department at Southern Federal University, He is an author of a wide range of educational publications and books on rhetoric and Russian philology including coursebooks on rhetoric for university students.
Early life and education
Khazagerov was born in Rostov-on-Don, USSR. He obtained a PhD from Krasnodar State University for his research on the metalinguistic properties of tropes and figures.
Career
Over the last ten years he has been doing research in rhetoric as an institution of state-building and the shaping of the society. He has an interest in rhetoric of totalitarianism of the Soviet period. His articles have been published in science and popular science journals and newspapers. He is regularly invited as keynote speaker at all-Russian and international conferences and meetings on language and cultural studies.
Current research and consultancy interests include ancient theories of style and the theory of tropes and rhetoric figures, as well as their reflection in modern cultures and their interpretation in present-day Russian eloquence.
Books
Ritorika totalitarisma: stanovlenie, rassvet, kollaps (sovetskii opyt) (Rhetoric of Totalitarianism: Formation, Zenith, Collapse (The Soviet Experience)). Rostov-on-Don, RSU Publishing House, 2012. Rhetoric Dictionary (in Russian): Moscow: Nauka, 2009. (Flinta), (Nauka). Osnovy teorii literatury (The Principles of Literary Theory). Rostov-on-Don: Phoenix, 2009. . Ritorika (Rhetoric). Rostov-on-Don, Phoenix, 2008, 3rd ed., . Partiya, vlast’ i ritorika (The Party, Power and Rhetoric). Moscow: Europe, 2006 . Politicheskaya ritorika (Political Rhetoric). Moscow: Nikkolo-Media, 2002 . with E. Kornilova Ritorika dlya delovogo cheloveka (Rhetoric for a Businessman). Moscow: Flinta, 2001. . Vvedenie v russkuyu filologiyu (Introduction to Russian Philology). Yekaterinburg: Delovaya kniga, 2000. . with N. Karachenskaya “Ob obrazekh” – pervoye filologicheskoye sochineniye na Rusi (“On Images” – the First Philological Treatise in Russia). Rostov-on-Don: RSU Publishing House, 1995. with S. Iliyasova A Dictionary of Russian Homoforms (in Russian). Rostov-on-Don: RSU Publishing House, 1995. with S. Megentesov Ocherk filosofii sub’ektno-predikatnykh form v yazykovom i nauchno-istoricheskom prostranstve (A Philosophical Sketch of Subjectival Predicate Forms in the Language, Cultural and Historical context). Rostov-on-Don: RSU Publishing House, 1995.