Maksim Anisimovich Krongauz (Russian: Кронгауз, Максим Анисимович) is a Soviet and Russian linguist, professor of the Russian State University for the Humanities and Higher School of Economics. His interests include structural and applied linguistics, semiotics, and Russian language, in particular semiotics of language and culture, grammar of Russian language, semantics, theory of referents and pragmatics, theory of dialogue, political discourse, and humor; popular science writer. Source: Wikipedia (en)