Hranush Tovmasyan
Hranush Tovmasyan (, born March 29, 1982) is an Armenian linguist and translator. Education Hranush Tovmasyan was born and raised in Yerevan, Armenian SSR. Tovmasyan received a qualification of specialist of English and Spanish languages, teacher from Brusov State University which she entered in 1999 and graduated with honor in 2004. Right after that in 2005 Hranush was enrolled in a postgraduate study program at the same university which she accomplished in 2007 defending her PhD dissertation and earning the degree of Doctor of Linguistics (General and Applied Linguistics). In June–July 2008 Tovmasyan was a post-doc fellow at Cambridge University in UK, funded jointly by Open Society Institute Assistance Foundation and Cambridge University. Hosted by Darwin College, her fellowship passed at the Department of Theoretical and Applied Linguistics of Cambridge University. She carried out her research in Pragmatics, Presupposition being her spotlight. In 2009 Hranush Tovmasyan was granted the academic title of Associate Professor in Linguistics from Yerevan Brusov State Linguistic University. In August 2010, 2011 and 2012 Tovmasyan studied at University for Foreigners of Perugia, attending the course of Italian language and culture. In 2011 she launched her doctoral research which resulted in her dissertation “Lingvo-Cognitive Aspect of Presupposition