Nigar Valiyeva
Nigar Valiyeva () is an Azerbaijani linguist and professor of English Lexicology and Stylistics at the Azerbaijan University of Languages. She is a member of the Union of Azerbaijani Writers and a member of the International Fund for Cooperation and Partnership of the Black Sea and the Caspian Sea. Biography. Early life. Nigar Valiyeva was born on February 14, 1971, in Baku, Azerbaijan into an intellectual family. Her father, Chingiz Bulbuloglu Mammadov (born 1938), is an Azerbaijani State Adviser of the second class of public service, second son of the famous Azerbaijani and Soviet opera tenor, folk music performer , founder of vocal arts and national musical theatre in Azerbaijan Bulbul and Adelaida Mammadova, Bulbul’s museum director, public figure and biologist of Institute of Botany of NANA Elmira Mikayil qizi Zeynalova (1945). Her uncle (mother’s older brother) Ibrahim Zeynalov (1934–2008) was a Soviet and Azerbaijani sculptor, teacher, professor, Honored Artist of Azerbaijan, State Prize Laureate of USSR and Azerbaijan SSR, director of Museum of Art. Her uncle (father’s younger brother) Polad Bülbüloğlu (1945) is a Soviet and Azerbaijani singer, composer, professor, politician, and diplomat. Education. She went to High School № 189 in Baku between 1977 and  1987. In 1987 Nigar Valiyeva entered "the English and German languages" department of the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages and graduated with an honors diploma in 1992. From 1992–1995 she was a post-graduate student of "the General Linguistics" department of the Azerbaijan State Pedagogical Institute of Foreign Languages. Scientific activities. On April 11, 1996, she was admitted as a young specialist to the English Grammar department of the Azerbaijan State Institute of Languages. In 1996 she defended her dissertation on the theme ""The phraseological units, formed by means of the verbs of speaking and thinking"" (on the  materials of the Azerbaijani, English and Russian languages) and was conferred the scientific degree Candidate of Philology (Ph.D. degree in Linguistics). In 2000 she was elected as the chief teacher of the English Grammar department of the Azerbaijan University of Languages. Sphere of the Investigation (Research Field): The investigations in General Linguistics, the Theory of Language, Theoretical Grammar, Communicative Grammar, German languages, Comparative Typology, the Theory of Text, the Theory of the Translation, Lexicography, and Phraseology, Linguaculturology, Pedagogics, Psychology, Lexicology, Sociolinguistics, Stylistics, Pragmatics, Logic, Linguadidactics, and Literature of the Region, Psycholinguistics, Multiculturalism. Works. Published works. It is more than 25  years that professor Nigar Valiyeva has been teaching English and studying the grammatical structure and the lexical system of English, Azerbaijani and Russian contrastively. During these years she has got published five books for higher schools and more than 200 articles in the international scientific journals and 20 monographs. She participates in international seminars, symposiums, and conferences more than 30 times.