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...

Editorial: In their introduction to the first issue of the relaunched Journal of Applied Linguistics and Professional Practice ( JALPP), Sarangi and Candlin (2010) give two readings to the conjunction of 'applied linguistics' and 'professional practice' in the title, signalling two complementary agendas in applied linguistics research. The first agenda is to extend the study of language and com...

Halliday’s Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) has stood the test of time as a model of text analysis. The present literature contains a plethora of studies that while taking the ‘clause’ as a unit of analysis have put into investigation the metafunctions in research articles of a single field of study or those of various fields in comparison. Although ‘clause complex’ is another unit of SF a...