TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) is an internationally based open access platform where professionals from various fields are invited to give speeches, and share ideas with like-minded people. In recent years, topics related the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) or COVID-19 pandemic have become most popular speech on TED. This paper selects speech-related TED during pandemic, by usin...

Th article describes the specifis, principles and methods of synergetics as a promising area modern research. Synergetics is presented by author holistic integral paradigm used in many sciences which confims its interdisciplinary even universal nature. object this interaction complex systems, since mere concept ‘system’ widely scientifi filds, relevance beyond doubt. main characteristics struct...

The last fifteen years has seen a proliferation of studies and the emergence of a promising field of research in what could be called disciplinary discourse studies or the study of discourse and disciplinarity, using a range of more or less linguistic theoretical tools (register analysis, genre analysis, various varieties of discourse analysis, socio-cultural theory, social semiotics, and, more...

Location-aware social network services are set to be the next generation of social networking services. These services typically allow users to send and receive messages and icons. Iconic signs, which look like what they represent, may be said to have a commonly understood meaning attached to them. However, this is fluid, leaving them open to variation in meaning. More precise meanings are free...

This study aimed at investigating shades of identity in TEFL textbooks. Most identity studies have focused on authors as knowledge producers. They have neglected authors' roles in constructing identity. Further, few scholars have considered disciplinary specific textbooks in their analyses of identity. Trying to bridge these gaps, we applied Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics to investi...

AIMS Multidisciplinary heart failure (HF) clinics are a cornerstone of contemporary HF management. The stent-for-life (SFL) initiative improves mortality after ST elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI), but its impact in post-STEMI HF is not well characterized. Here we assessed the impact of SFL among patients referred to a multidisciplinary HF clinic over a 15 year time period. METHODS AND ...

The aim of this paper is to examine the nominality of the neologism BREXIT using a corpus-informed lexicogrammatical approach. The term BREXIT, coined in 2012, used initially in print and social media in the UK is now internationally wide-spread. BREXIT is a blend of British + exit, which expresses the meaning of’Britain exiting from the EU’. Although ‘Brexit’ clearly expresses an event (motion...

This study explored nominalized expression types in an applied linguistics book and a biology book as 2 distinct disciplines. The books were carefully read, the nominalized expression types were identified, the frequencies of the nominalization types were counted, and eventually chi-square was administered. Results revealed no significant difference in using nominalization. Furthermore, the den...