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Teletherapy for Adolescent Psychiatric Outpatients: The Soaring Flight of so far Idle Technologies during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Huscsava Mercedes , Plener Paul , Kothgassner Oswald D.
Published: October 2020

Owed to the COVID-19 pandemic, teletherapeutic offers skyrocketed, in the need of the moment seemingly faster that the background technology and training could be provided. This spotlight communication gives an overview of results and ideas on teletherapeutic offers for adolescent psychiatric outpatients and impulses for further investigations. We report insight gained from following up 30 adolescents in weekly outpatient treatment on an interview basis. Therapists’ views were collected via informal discussions and are, although not systematically analyzed, integrated where applicable Although results are not generalizable, we could show that patients overall benefit from teletherapy. Main positives and pitfalls of teletherapy are being reported, as well as ideas for problem-solving and refinement, which seems of utmost importance in light of potential further waves of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Provision of Remote Psychotherapy during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Authors: Humer Elke , Thomas Probst
Published: October 2020

The outbreak of the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) creates strong challenges not only for mental health but also for mental health care services. The measures necessary to combat the rapid spread of the virus have created severe barriers to accessing face-to-face psychotherapy in personal contact around the world. As direct contact with others should be avoided when possible, adaptations in the therapeutic settings are necessary. Therefore, remote psychotherapy became a valuable option to continue mental health care during the COVID-19 pandemic. The present article reviews recent studies on the transition to remote psychotherapy during the COVID-19 pandemic. Studies conducted in Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany and Slovakia revealed a strong increase in psychotherapy provided via internet or telephone during the pandemic as compared to the months before. Several differences emerged with regard to country and gender, while the therapeutic orientation was of minor importance. In central Denmark referrals to psychiatric services declined considerably during the lockdown, whereas in a psychotherapy program at a public hospital in Massachusetts a switch to remote psychotherapy even reduced the number of missed appointments. Results imply that the supply of mental health care could not sufficiently be maintained in all countries during the COVID-19 situation and that measures are required to further facilitate the provision of mental health care during and after the pandemic.
Evaluación de dos tratamientos psicológicos para mujeres embarazadas con sintomatología ansiosa
Authors: Rodríguez Durán Carlos Augusto , Moreno Coutiño Ana Beatriz
Published: October 2020

Introducción: La sintomatología ansiosa en mujeres embarazadas tiene una prevalencia de entre 15 y 50% y puede provocar complicaciones en este periodo. Los programas basados en la atención plena y el tratamiento cognitivo-conductual son dispositivos terapéuticos eficaces para combatir esta problemática. Objetivo: En un hospital de la Ciudad de México, evaluar el efecto de dos intervenciones psicológicas para reducir los síntomas de ansiedad en mujeres embarazadas: atención plena compasiva y terapia cognitivo-conductual, de ocho sesiones individuales cada intervención y con una duración de 90 minutos cada módulo. Método: Se implementó un diseño intrasujetos con evaluaciones en el pretratamiento, el postratamiento y el seguimiento de tres meses. La asignación de las participantes a cada tratamiento fue aleatoria. Seis participantes finalizaron su tratamiento y los seguimientos. Se utilizaron como instrumentos psicométricos un inventario de ansiedad, una escala de atención plena y una escala de compasión. Resultados: Se calculó el índice de Cambio Clínico Objetivo de Cardiel. Ambos tratamientos fueron eficaces para reducir la sintomatología ansiosa en mujeres embarazadas. Las participantes que asistieron al modelo de atención plena compasiva lograron aumentar sus niveles de atención plena y de compasión. Discusión: Una limitación del estudio fue el pequeño número de participantes. Se sugiere que estos modelos continúen siendo probados en el ámbito hospitalario para recabar más evidencia sobre estos tratamientos psicológicos.
Cáncer y salutogénesis: una revisión bibliográfica
Authors: Escamilla Sánchez Sergio I.
Published: October 2020

Al ser el cáncer una de las principales causas de preocupación de los sistemas de salud de muchos países se vuelve necesario hacer una revisión del estado actual de la literatura que aborde el tema desde el punto de vista de la salud y no de la enfermedad, que es el objeto del constructo salutogénesis. Si bien se considera una relación polémica el vínculo entre el cáncer y los pensamientos saludables, muy contraria a la existente con la depresión o ansiedad, y por tanto la bibliografía es escasa, en este trabajo se han tomado en cuenta los resultados de una búsqueda de las publicaciones aparecidas entre los años 2009 y 2019, principalmente. La importancia de la intervención psicológica que promueve en los pacientes un estado mental y emocional en el que predominen pensamientos y sentimientos saludables se hace evidente en cuanto se logra la disminución de los síntomas y la remisión acelerada de la condición al construirse y reforzarse un círculo virtuoso al aumentar el bienestar y la calidad de vida.
Mining and Social Capital: A Micro-analysis from Odisha, India
Authors:   Department of Economics, Central University of Odisha, India, Sahoo Minati
Published: October 2020

The Sustainable Livelihood Framework has identified social capital as one of the means upon which sustainable livelihoods are built. Hence an attempt was made in this study to determine whether mining improves the social capital of a local community in the primary mineral producing state of Odisha, India. A comparative approach utilizing various statistical techniques with mining and non-mining areas was used. It was found that mining is having a significantly adverse impact on the social capital of the mineral-rich region of Odisha in the preference for the nuclear family rather than the larger family size; social tensions due to massive unemployment, migration, or non-payment of compensation for land acquisition; a higher level of alcohol consumption; and, low workforce participation of women in mining villages than in non-mining villages. Even less involvement in associations and groups and weak social networks have been found among people in the mining region. Thus, mining activity in the region has deteriorated, instead of improving, the area's social capital. This depreciation raises the issue of mining as being a truly sustainable source of livelihood. This issue makes it necessary for the administrative machinery to design a strategy appropriate for augmentation of the social capital in India's mineral abundant regions.
Living through Loss: Questions and Answers about Grief and Bereavement
Authors:   University of Memphis (USA), Neimeyer Robert A.
Published: October 2020

The field of grief therapy is rapidly evolving, as new theories, models and research findings inspire new understandings of loss and how people accommodate it. This article summarizes some of these contemporary developments, emphasizing the search for meaning in bereavement, and illustrates how these fresh perspectives can offer guidance to real people seeking consultation on how to manage very real losses under complicating circumstances. Nurses occupy many roles that bring them into contact with death and grief, leaving them well positioned to extend knowledgeable and compassionate care for patients and families facing such existential transitions
Epidemiología enfermera del duelo en Canarias
Authors:   Universidad de La Laguna (España), Rodríguez-Álvaro Martín
Published: October 2020

Grief is a natural and self-limited process of adaptation to a new reality that arises after a significant loss, real or perceived, with a wide range of manifestations that produce an impact on the health of the mourner. Objective: To know and identify, broken down by diagnostic gradient, the prevalence of mourning in the Canary Islands, as well as the needs of care before the diagnosis of mourning of the mourners. Results: Significantly, more women than men are identified in the three diagnostic labels under study. Patients with bereavement complications previously presented depression, anxiety, and risk of loneliness. The result of the pattern assessment is paradoxical. Conclusion: Grief is a multidimensional phenomenon that can hardly be assessed from a reductionist tool such as functional patterns. The high prevalence of complications in women’s grief should be studied in-depth, associating it with their previous burdens of care and vulnerability. The association between loneliness and complicated grief is evident, and the role of community nurses in these patients may be essential. Further research is needed on the care needs of bereaved persons, both complicated and uncomplicated, as well as on their predictive and protective factors.
El final de la vida como desafío a la ética sanitaria
Authors:   Universidad de La Laguna (España), Pérez González David Enrique
Published: October 2020

Article 10 of the Spanish Constitution of 1978 recognizes the dignity of the individual, the inviolable rights inherent in it, the free development of personality, respect for the law and the rights of others as the basis of political order and social peace. The rules relating to fundamental rights and freedoms recognized by the Constitution shall be interpreted in accordance with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the international treaties and agreements on the same subjects ratified by Spain. Hence, this value of dignity serves as a basis in its analysis for framing a dignified death. On this premise, several doubts are raised regarding the combination of several of the precepts of the Magna Carta, which, in their application to the field of health, can generate discrepancies. We refer, on the one hand, to Article 15, which calls for the proclamation of both the right to life and the right not to be subjected to inhuman and degrading treatment. And on the other hand, we see that this same article 15 confronts the precepts that the Constitution dedicates to the right to personal freedom in its various variants.
¿Qué sabemos sobre el duelo y el final de la vida las enfermeras? A propósito de un estudio mediante grupo focal en Santa Cruz de Tenerife
Authors:   Universidad de La Laguna (España), Marrero González Cristo Manuel , García Hernández Alfonso Miguel ,   Universidad de La Laguna (España)
Published: October 2020

Introduction and purpose of the research: the authors, members of the End-of-Life Care group at the University of La Laguna (CUFINVIDA), seek to identify areas of improvement concerning end-of-life care, loss and grief in the professional context, from the premise that there is not enough training around this topic. Methodology: phenomenological hermeneutic research through a focus group of fifteen nurses from Ofra Delicias-Miramar primary healthcare centre in Santa Cruz de Tenerife (Spain), carried out in November 2019. Results: Four main categories are identified when delving into what mourning is: the physical space of mourning and death; meaning and context; mourning for deceased children and proposals for improvement. Conclusions: Nurses report not feeling prepared regarding grief and the process of dying. Training is scarce, and it is necessary to consider and reflect on how nurses carry out diagnoses and establish objectives and interventions for people at the end of life or in the mourning process.
Aplicación de la historia de vida como técnica para la visibilización y abordaje de las múltiples pérdidas y duelos en casos de violencia
Authors: Reynoso Nava Elsa María
Published: October 2020

The main objective of this paper is to describe how the application of the life history technique serves to make visible, address, and treat the multiple losses and grief in contexts of violence. this is done through the analysis of the life history of a 62-year-old Mexican woman from the state of Guerrero. this is a qualitative study that takes up robert A. Neimeyer’s theory of multiple grief, who conceives grief as a situation triggered by the death of a close person, but also by a loss that is generally minimized and not well attended by society. This way, the life story technique has significant advantages for the treatment of multiple grief or losses in violent contexts. The narrative helps people to integrate thoughts and emotions about the losses they have suffered into a consistent and meaningful experience.
Maximum admissible pressure in salt caverns used for brine production and hydrocarbon storage
Authors: Bérest Pierre , Brouard Benoît , Karimi-Jafari Mehdi , Réveillère Arnaud
Published: October 2020

Tightness is a fundamental prerequisite to any underground storage. In storage salt caverns, a safe maximum admissible pressure must be selected to avoid product loss. The tensile strength of salt is small, and cavern pressure must be kept lower than geostatic pressure or, more precisely, lower than the least compressive stress at the cavern wall. The vertical stress can be assessed through density logs. The redistribution of stresses in the rock mass, due to the visco-plastic nature of rock salt, must be taken into account. A couple of cases in which a hydraulic connection between one cavern and another cavern, or between a cavern and the edge of a salt dome, are known. These connections originated in geological anomalies rather than in the creation of a fracture. There exists a pressure threshold, lower than the geostatic pressure, for which micro-fracturing and an increase in salt permeability occur, vindicating the position that a safety margin is needed when selecting the maximum pressure. Well tightness is important as well; it depends on several factors, among which are the quality of the cement, and the maximum fluid pressure in the cavern and along the access well. A tightness test is mandatory. The Nitrogen Leak Test is the most common such test. A review of selected gas-storage sites shows that, in most cases, the maximum admissible gradient at the casing shoe is 0.018 MPa/m (0.8 psi/ft), and up to 0.019 MPa/m (0.85 psi/ft) in some American states, values that are consistent with the considerations listed above.
Optimizing nutrition throughout the COVID-19 trajectory: From admission, to ICU, to discharge
Authors: Asprer Jonathan
Published: October 2020

The nutritional consequences of COVID-19 infection must be recognized by health care professionals (HCPs) who are frontliners in the fight against COVID-19. At the time of admission, patients are likely to be suffering from some degree of malnutrition, and early nutritional assessment and care planning should be integrated into the overall therapeutic strategy, along with control of the viral infection, from supportive measures for mild to moderate illness, to the full range of respiratory, hemodynamic, and relevant organ support in critical illness in ICU. There are guidelines (international and local) on nutrition in Covid-19 patients and these should be adapted for various local settings. An algorithmic approach will be presented to cover key issues for optimizing the nutrition management of COVID-19 patients from admission, to the ward, or to ICU, and thence on to discharge.
COVID-US: a simplified cardiopulmonary ultrasound approach to use in suspected and confirmed COVID-19
Authors: Nalos Marek
Published: October 2020

Using ultrasonography to help diagnose, risk stratify and treat patients suffering from COVID-19 disease is therefore intuitive and imperative.
COVID-19 treatment during and after recovery: What to expect
Authors: Syam Ari Fahrial
Published: October 2020

Currently, there are no clinically specific drug for COVID-19, neither novel treatments nor vaccines. Hospitals and researchers over the world are testing many different therapies on coronavirus-positive patients in an effort to find a potential COVID-19 treatment, a few medications that have been making a buzz in the science community such as remdesivir, hydroxychloroquine and chloroquine, favipiravir, oseltamifir, lopinavir/ritonavir, azithromycin, plasma convalescent, dexamethasone and stem cell.
Sport challenge activity in the midst of COVID-19 pandemic
Authors: Hidayat Rachmad Wishnu
Published: October 2020

The variation of exercise is important to avoid feeling bored and to keep the exercise motivation high. Although current condition is considered to be new normal with high number of new cases, it is recommend to exercise safely on location considered as low risk (e.g at home).
Overweight and obesity in 16–18 years old teenagers in South Jakarta and the relationship with academic performance
Authors: Christabelle Marie , Medise Bernie Endyarni
Published: October 2020

Objective: In different parts of the world, Indonesia included, overweight and obese people are seen to have worse performance compared to their healthy counterparts. Although there were research that had been done to observe the relationship between overweight, obesity, and academic performance, the results obtained were still divided into significantly and non-significantly related.Methods: A cross-sectional study was done to 373 students from two different schools in South Jakarta on December 2017–January 2018. Data was obtained by measuring height and weight of the participant to get his/her nutritional status and the average of participant’s odd semester Continual Assessment and Semestral Assessment of Academic Year 2017/2018 to see if the result was higher or equal to the passing grade.Results: Data analysis with chi square test shows that there was no significant relationship between overweight, obesity, and academic performance (p = 0.452 for Indonesian Language and p = 0.476 for Mathematics) although overweight and obese students tend to have better performance in some exam.Conclusion: The events that lead to overweight, obesity, and one’s academic performance are all multifactorial that the relationship between the two is difficult to be determined.
Association of short stature with cognitive assessment in primary school children in Kampung Melayu, Jakarta, Indonesia
Authors: Setiawati Hannisa Rizka , Sekartini Rini
Published: October 2020

Background: In Indonesia, an estimated 23.6% of children aged 5-12 years old are short statured, therefore short stature is made one of the health priorities. Children with short stature are associated with low cognitive levels, so that it will have an impact on quality of life.Methods: This research was conducted in a cross-sectional study at SDN 01 Kampung Melayu, Jakarta, Indonesia. Subjects are children with short stature aged 6-12 years old. Data was taken by measuring height according to age with the curve used by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention - National Center for Health Statistics (CDC-NCHS) and total value from cognitive assessment using the Cognitive Test Battery for Individuals with and without Intellectual Disabilities (CIID) instrument. This research was conducted aiming to assess cognitive in primary school children with short stature.Results: There were 64 children with short stature in SDN 01 Kampung Melayu with CIID test results for Total Score obtained in the range of 5-26, with mean and standard deviations 13.59 ± 4.54. Non Verbal Score was obtained in the range 7-39, with mean and standard deviations 21.94 ± 7.51. Hopkins Verbal Learning Test obtained range 6-31, with mean and standard deviations 19.36 ± 5.90. Verbal Fluency is obtained in the range of 5-26, with mean and standard deviations 13.59 ± 4.54. Compared with previous studies, subjects with short stature have values similar to those of children with normal stature. No significant difference was found between short stature children with underweight nutritional status and short stature children with normal nutritional status, with p=0.369.Conclusion: There were 64 children with short stature and the total score ranging from 5-26, with mean and standard deviations 13.59 ± 4.54
GERMAN LEGAL TERMS: RESTORATION OF THE SEMANTIC FOUNDATIONS
Authors: Balanaieva Oksana
Published: October 2020

The article deals with the analysis of the process of forming terminological units by means of lexis de-symbolization. The functioning of this way and its meaning for forming legal terminology is examined here. The lexical base of analysis is formed with the complex of lexis of the German legal terminological system. The objective of the current research is a multifaceted study and description of the semantic foundations of lexical units of law. The requirement to implement this objective has determined the need to solve the following research task: to investigate the process of de-symbolization of words, i. e. the transformation of words into terminological units primarily through the restoration of their semantic foundations (as exemplified by a number of German lexemes). The object of the research is the lexicon of the domain of the legal terminology of the said language. The subject of the research is the formation of legal terms as a result of the process of de-symbolization of the respective words (notions). The material involved in the study was considered from the standpoint of a systematic approach. In order to obtain objective data when determining the semantic foundations of terminological units of law, the descriptive method and the comparative one were used, as well as the method of semantic bundles (series). Examining the process of de-symbolization of lexical units makes it possible to draw the conclusion that the functioning of words in the context of certain semantic parameters determines the change in the content of those words' symbolic foundations. The words are used in a narrower sense, since they have become terms.
METAPHOR RESEARCH IN COGNITIVE LINGUISTICS
Authors: Lutai Natalia , Besarab Tetiana
Published: October 2020

The article emphasizes the fact that within the past decades there has been a significant interest to studying of metaphors, the main reason awakening it is associated with studies conducted in the field of cognitive linguistics. Many scientists who are engaged in cognitive linguistics consider the metaphor not only as a part of the language, but as well as a fundamental part of the way of human thinking, reasoning and imagination. To some extent this statement has been confirmed by a huge number of empirical studies carried out in this area of ​​linguistics recently. The main purpose of this article is to describe the empirical foundations of cognitive linguistic research related to metaphors, to acknowledge various critical remarks regarding works on essential issues in this area, as well as weaknesses in the concept of metaphor represented by cognitive linguists, Plus, some urgent challenges that are to be resolved to define the subsequent research concerning the part of metaphors in language, thinking and culture have been enlightened. It has been pointed out that cognitive linguists, like scientists from any other academic field, are limited in their work owing to the empirical methods they use, for example, when discussing specific theories of language and thinking.
DOMESTIC WOMEN’S LITERATURE AT THE BEGINNING OF THE 21st CENTURY. AUTOFICTION – THEORETICAL PROVISIONS
Authors: Ozdemir Oksana
Published: October 2020

The article focuses on the fact that one of the most productive forms of self-identification and representation in domestic women’s prose of the late 20th – early 21st centuries is the literary form of autofiction, which attests the continuation of the traditions of autobiography in the domestic gyneprose to the new level. However, modern autogyneprose mostly positions its openness to the reader, starting from the level of the “external pact” with the recipient, who emerges from the book pages through the conclusion of external pacts with the reader at the level of preface, inner interviews, own photo of writers, etc., which are called to witness openness of the author, clearly outline her image, and to some extent to announce her intentions. That is, the active position of dialogue with the recipient can be traced. This position is also indicated by the creation by the writers of the image of the implicit reader by introducing an internal addressee, that is, an internal pact in the form of a dialogue with the reader throughout the story. The active interaction of the narrator with the reader in women’s prose of the early 21st century also enables the latter to come closer to understanding of their own image, since the heroine of autofiction becomes for the recipient those Others, in the background of whom their own self-identification takes place. However, when it comes to the literary comprehension of these constructs, it should be noted that there is no conception of their analysis in the literary criticism of gynecritical orientation. This is the reason for the practice of using for this purpose of the “masculine” theory of literary analysis of narrative, in particular, the theory of autobiographical pact by Philippe Lejeune and the theory of narrative by Gérard Genette. And yet another complexity of narratological analysis of a text from the point of view of its narrative organization is not only an innovative method of autogyneprose research, but also some innovation in the field of the study of the narrative organization of non-fiction texts in comparison with fiction texts (this applies to both domestic and foreign literary studies). In this regard, the study of the forms of ego-narrative objectification in the autofiction texts by O. Drachkovska, I. Karpa, Ye. Kononenko, S. Povalyaeva and I. Rozdobudko is very relevant.
THE PHENOMENON OF ANTONOMASIA IN LANGUAGE AND SPEECH (BASED ON ENGLISH PRESS)
Authors: Tatarovska Olesya
Published: October 2020

Antonomasia can not be confidently attributed to a single case of metonymy or metaphor, as antonomasia is based on whether similar or on adjacent identifying objects. In speech antonomasia is a stylistic device, namely, the conscious use of existing or creation of a new name, which is realized together with the given value and is subject-logical at the same time. This leads to the fact that the name not only identifies the object, but characterizes it differently. Depending on whether the common name is transferred to its own (that is, the basis of the new name of the own name is the subject-logical value of the existing common name) or the potential subject-logical value of the embodied name is obtained in the foreground, we distinguish two types of antonomasia. This option indicates not the primary referent of the name, but its characteristics, distinctive features. However, the reference equivalence remains, but may be gradually erased. If it completely disappears, it causes the creation of a new common name. Considering antonomasia from the position of the nomination act, we can characterize it both as a process, and as a result of nominative activity. It is also worth recognizing the difference between antonomasia that characterizes the unit of speech, i.e. its own name, which has a potential subject-logical value implemented in certain contexts, and antonomasia as a stylistic device, i.e., special use of the name in context to achieve certain pragmatic effects.
INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION AS AN IMPORTANT DIRECTION RESEARCH IN THE MODERN SOCIETY
Authors: Denysova Svitlana , Kuzmych Oksana , Nikolaieva Iryna
Published: October 2020

In the last half-century, there has been an increase in scientific interest in the problems of intercultural interaction. The article deals with the problem of intercultural communication and highlights its historical aspect. Examples of experimental studies on the subject are given. The authors noted some mechanisms of intercultural communication. Ethnocentrism is inherent in any culture. Most cultural anthropologists agreewith this opinion. They are convinced that it is natural to look at the world through the lens of their culture. But it has both positive and negative points. Ethnocentrism allows one to unknowingly separate one ethnocultural group from another, the bearer of another's culture from one's own. This is a positive thing. While the negative is the conscious desire to isolate one person from another, to form a humiliating attitude from one culture to another. The relevance and importance of studying the features of interethnic perception are once again demonstrated by the large number of works devoted to this issue, the multiplicity of points of view on the content, originality and role of ethnic determinants of perception. Methods of social psychology and the nature of inter-ethnic relations make their demands on the choice of topics at the present stage, increasing the processes of disintegration while simultaneously seeking humanity for unification. The authors' conclusions relate to the relevance and importance of studying the features of interethnic interaction.
FORMATIVE ASSESSMENT AS AN ESSENTIAL COMPONENT OF SUCCESSFUL LANGUAGE TEACHING
Authors: Perishko Iryna
Published: October 2020

The article deals with teachers‘ use of language assessment to guide students‘ language proficiency development and academic achievement, the positive benefits of formative assessment for guiding teaching and learning and its characteristics. It is specially noted that language assessment is a purposeful activity that gathers information about students‘ language development. Assessment can be intended to improve teaching and learning or to evaluate the outcomes of teaching and learning. Special attention is given to formative assessment that is described as assessment for learning, in contrast to assessment of learning, i.e. summative assessment. The article focuses on the analysis of formative assessment and its procedures in English classes such as questioning, quizzes, discussions, interviews, role plays, observations, teacher-made tests, checklists, self-reports, journals, projects. Various types of formative assessment, namely self-assessment, peer assessment and alternative assessment are highlighted in the paper. The characteristics of teacher-based assessment that distinguish it from other forms of assessment are described. Teachers assess their students’ learning to determine the effectiveness of their teaching. It should be emphasized that the quality of formative assessment depends on its beneficial uses and value for teaching and learning and teachers‘ judgments and classroom uses of assessments have profound effects on the lives and opportunities of students.
THE EFFECTIVENESS OF BLENDED LEARNING IN THE PROCESS OF TEACHING FOREIGN LANGUAGE FOR PROFESSIONAL PURPOSES AT NON-PHILOLOGICAL SPECIALTIES
Authors: Romanyuk Svitlana , Trofimchuk Veronika
Published: October 2020

The article deals with the peculiarities of blended learning implementation in teaching foreign languages for professional purposes at the institutions of higher education. The author examines the essence of blended learning model, which combines traditional form of study (face-to-face session) with online collaborative learning and all characteristics of information educational technologies, analyzes its main principles and priorities, as well as the difficulties of its introduction in the educational process of the university. In particular, the possibility of using blended learning as a means of improving the effectiveness of the educational process is considered. The article substantiates the methodical expediency of blended learning application in the process of teaching foreign languages for professional purposes at higher educational institutions at non-philological specialties. Recently, the higher educational institutions intensify the process of learning foreign languages through the introduction of the variety of teaching technologies. Blended learning is a combination of the traditional classroom and modern digital education. Blended learning can be an important direction in the modernization of higher education and a prerequisite for improving quality and efficiency of the learning process. The main advantages of blended learning are productivity, teamwork, individualization, asynchrony, speed, interactivity, didactic support, the presence of control systems, self-control, evaluation.
LEXICAL, GRAMMATICAL AND STYLISTIC REDUNDANCY IN ENGLISH TEXT
Authors: Litkovych Yuliya , Sternichuk Vita
Published: October 2020

Lexical, grammatical and stylistic pleonasms in contemporary English-language media discourse are analyzed in the article. The definition of pleonasms, especially their types is offered. It is outlined the peculiar features of their usage in contemporary English-language media discourse. It has been proved that the redundancy in lexical pleonasms is expressed by synonyms. It is substantiated that grammatical pleonasms arise due to suffixes, prefixes and adverbs when creating degrees of comparison of adjectives. Pleonasms in contemporary English-language media discourse are used to intensify the utterance and to influence pragmatically on the addressee. Pleonasm is an independent expressive means of language. As a permanent feature of a linguistic unit, it differs not only from the stylistic means of expressing redundancy in speech, but also from grammatical types of redundancy. The autonomy of pleonasms in a language is justified by their purpose to clarify, intensify and add different shades of the meaning of a word or any concept in order to accurately convey information to the addressee. These redundant phrases are understood as absolutely natural phenomenon in English. One of the reasons for the creation of pleonasms is insufficient transparency of one of the components and this component the word of foreign origin. Pleonasm is the result of rather complex processes of semantic development of components that are combined.
NATIONAL AND CULTURAL PECULIARITIES OF PHONETICS IN THE AMERICAN ENGLISH
Authors: Nickolayeva Iryna
Published: October 2020

The article shows the establishment of the territorial norms on the level of phonetics in the American English. It analyses their national and cultural peculiarities. The studied and presented material shows that the phonetic characteristics of the American national version of the English language have their own territorial national and cultural characteristics. The article deals with the issue of phonetic peculiarities of the dialectic language as an ideal of the signs of the territorial jurisdiction of native speakers in terms of interpersonal communication. The main causes of regional dialects are analyzed. Separately, it is noted that the phonetic characteristics of the American national version of English in the South-West of the United States have their own regional identity. It is underlined that distinctive phonetic features of the English language in the United States include not only dialect phenomena, but they are also characteristic of the literary language. The assessment of the same linguistic facts from the point of view of American and British norms is indicative in this respect. In this article, it is discussed in detail the phonetic features of American English compared to British, officially recognized in the world community the main. The American version is of the greatest interest in comparison with Canadian, Australian and New Zealand English, because, for various reasons, it has undergone a large number of changes in all aspects of the language, including phonetic. The article emphasizes that the United States is developing its own territorial phonetic norms.
HOLY RITUAL BYPASS “POCIVANNYA” AS A FRONT CONCEPT OF THE MICROCONSEPTOSPHERE “SVIATKI”
Authors: Plotnikova Natalya
Published: October 2020

The article deals with the complex analysis of the concept “Pocivannya” of the microconceptosphere Sviatki projected for studying the peculiarities of its reflection in the synchronistical and diachronic aspects, as well as for clarifying of the specific character of its reflection in the hierarchical system of the linguistic world-image. Keeping within the limits of the lingvoculturological approach of the linguistic conceptology, in the research the notions such as conceptosphere, concept, conceptual microfield were considered. In the structure of the microconceptosphere Sviatki 46 central concepts distributed to 10 conceptual microfields were distinguished. The appropriate field structure (nucleus, near-nucleus zone and periphery) of the microconceptosphere Sviatki was modeled and the hierarchical organization (superconcepts, presuperconcept, basic concepts, subconcepts) was presented. But the technique of the analysis of the lingvoculturological concepts suggested in this work consists of 3 stages: 1) formation of the nominative field of concept and definition of its nominative density; 2) description of the structural elements of the concept; 3) modeling of its field structure. During the analysis of every concept the means of its linguistic expression, including their paradigmatic and derivational peculiarities were characterized. The research of the central concepts of the microconceptosphere Sviatki permitted to discover the specific character of the national mentality of the Ukrainians within the limits of this fragment of the linguistic world-image.
PROBLEMS OF TRANSLATING SLOGANS CONSIDERING THE ASPECT OF CROSSCULTURAL COMMUNICATION
Authors: Pozhydaieva Nadia
Published: October 2020

The article tackles the problem of finding translation matches in order to render the idea and save the emotional content of the source advertisement text in the target text, thus preserving its preciseness. It also highlights the aspect of cross-cultural communication involved, which requires on part of its participants realizing inevitable cultural differences and overcoming cultural barriers to achieve mutual understanding and respect. With globalization of all spheres of life it is natural to assume that we are becoming part of world web media which will contribute to forming new thought patterns mainly because more and more bilingual people use English as a second language. Now that this tendency is overwhelming, we can look at the problem of translation anew. Effective cross-cultural communication takes place under the condition that all the communicants possess certain similar thought patterns. If communicants have different thought patterns, it can cause misunderstanding and cross-cultural conflict. So, the mediators in cross-cultural communication have to be not only bi-lingual, but also bi-cultural. The effectiveness of cross-cultural communication can be achieved via equivalent thought and speech patterns. With translation of advertisement texts the principle of dynamic equivalence helps to obtain the most adequate translation where the unity of the form and the content is preserved with the help of text adaptation. The target text creates a certain final effect, which determines the set of lexical, grammatical and stylistic units of the translation language with the translator’s imagination. The article also gives examples of translation of advertising texts that were marked as the best at various advertising festivals. The dynamic development of media linguistics contributes to the research in the sphere of translation of advertising texts.
PSYCHOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS OF DEVELOPING FOREIGN LEARNERS’ DISCUSSION SCILLS BASED ON FICTION: ACT AND ACTION
Authors: Yanisiv Mykhailo , Dilai Marianna , Ishchuk Myroslava
Published: October 2020

Scholars who address the issues concerning the second language communicative competence claim that learners should be able to use a foreign language as a means to increase professional and general educational level, that is not only for communicative, but also for cognitive purpose. The development of non-standard, creative thinking skills meets the social demand of our society at the present stage of its scientific and technological progress, social, political and cultural development. The aim of this study is to clarify the psychological basis of holding an effective discussion, determine its principles and methods, reveal the influence of individual psychological characteristics, acts and actions of discussion participants while disputing socio-cultural and literature problems. The research objectives are to highlight the main principles and methods that ensure effectiveness of discussion process, specify individual psychological characteristics of participants that have an impact on successful discussion course, provide examples from fiction, which show behavior of communicators. On the whole, the conditions of discussion, its techniques and psychological aspect, as well as the consideration of individual psychological characteristics of discussion participants come forward, on one side, as an important facet of discussion, on the other side, they determine the its effectiveness, aiming at solving various cultural problems.
MOTIVATION IN THE PROCESS OF LEARNING ENGLISH WHEN TEACHING POST – GRADUATE STUDENTS
Authors: Korotka Nataly
Published: October 2020

The article is devoted to the study of the stages of formation of motivation of educational activity in the process of learning a foreign language in the training of post graduate students. Rapid development of different forms of teaching foreign languages, changes in social and cultural life involves changing demands of our society for the whole education and particularly learning foreign languages. Since some students do not have physical need of using foreign languages as a means of communication, one of the most important factors which stimulate the process of communication in a foreign language is motivation in leaning foreign languages. In our paper motivation is referred to as a system of motives which leads the learning process to thorough knowledge of foreign languages with the positive aim of teachers. We have formulate the specific methodical principle underlying in the organization of teaching foreign languages to post graduates students. It was considered different ways of forming a positive sustainable motivation of graduate students’ educational activity. The formation of such motivation should not use one way, but all the ways in a certain system, in complex, because one of them, without others, cannot play a decisive role in the formation of post graduate students motivation.
SITUATIONAL CONTEXT OF THE TRANSACTIONAL MODEL IN MODERN INTERCULTURAL BUSINESS COMMUNICATION
Authors: Chepil Oksana
Published: October 2020

The article highlights the complexity of the nature of intercultural business communication as a multidimensional sociocultural phenomenon. In many ways, the field of intercultural communication is the subject of study of an array of disciplines ranging from linguistics, sociology, language communication, philosophy, ethnology, anthropology etc. In particular, this paper deals with the notion of situational context (SC) as a chief element of the communication process. It is defined as the circumstances at which communication act takes place. There are four dimensions of SC: physical, social, chronological and cultural. Each of the following dimensions has been thoroughly examined, with a strong emphasis on the cultural component. Moreover, the object of the study has been analyzed within the transactional model of communication, thoroughly examined by the American scholars T. Gamble and M. Gamble. The model comprises the following elements of communication: the addresser, messages, channels (medium), obstacles, situational context, the addressee. Reflecting on the importance of SC in the modern intercultural business communication it is worth noting its significance as the criteria of the effectiveness of business interaction. The examples introduced in this paper are based on the works of Edward Hall and Erin Mayer which demonstrate the role of low-context and high-context cultures determining the cultural dimension of the situational context. According to the results, the problems of intercultural business communication are not caused by the linguistic aspect. They are to occur due to the ignorance or misperception of the situational context, in particular its cultural dimension. Since cultural patterns of behavior and belief impact our perceptions, cognitions, and actions.
THE PROBLEMS OF RAISING STUDENTS AWARENESS (MOTIVATION) IN THE PROCESS OF FOREIGN LANGUAGES TRAINING
Authors: Chorniy Vira
Published: October 2020

The article highlights the problems of junior university students’ motivation to studying foreign languages. These problems are vital and widely discussed by scholars due to implementation of Bologna process. The author offers to understand the motivation as a process that combines individual and situational parameters aiming to transform the subject situation into the relevant motive. The author proves that the leading motive of the students should be awareness of the necessity of foreign language command for the successful professional activity. But students are primarily influenced by the teacher’s motivation. Under this framework the levels of the teacher’s activity forming is presented together with the framework of the motives study. On the basis of the references survey common classification of the motives is considered as well as techniques that stimulate the process of communication. The examples are taken from foreign and Ukrainian sources on methodology of teaching. These practical examples prove that communication centered training involves all language training skills. The article contains strategies and examples the above strategies. In the conclusion the reasons that determine students’ motivation are considered. It is proved that the most effective way of foreign language teaching is an interactive activity of a teacher and a student. Systematic estimation, encouragement and consideration of students’ professional interests are key elements in the process.
MODELING OF THE SEMANTIC RELATIONS IN COMPARATIVE STRUCTURES
Authors: Koropatnitska Tetiana
Published: October 2020

Two universal semantic formulas are approved and confirmed for comparison-assimilation and for contrastive comparison. They are relevant for different distributive comparison models, regardless of its formal expression. Our research is the part of the analysis of the comparative structures with wie/als Markers in Contemporary German Language and aims at revealing qualitative and quantitative correlation between components of the comparative frame models with the help of symbols. We try to model universal semantic formulae for comparison-assimilation and for contrastive comparison that are suitable for various distributive models of comparison and help to enable semantic interpretation of comparison irrespectively of the variety of their formal expression. To define the components of the semantics model of comparison we have selected such terms as referent, module and correlate that, in our opinion, explicitly illustrate the vast system of comparison verbalization in the contemporary German language. Category of comparison has a wide range of means of linguistic representation – morphological, word forming, lexical, syntax. However, three first ones do not exist beyond the framework of syntagmatics and their compatibility with other language units transfers them into the components of the syntax structures with comparative semantics. Comparison as cognitive mechanism and means of controlling mental representations implies the subject of the comparison. We have singled out the means for the subject of the comparison and stated that the element “subject of the comparison” unites two possible variants: “mentioned subject of the comparison” and “addresser”. These variants are the basis for the two ways of implementation of the semantic model of comparison: comparative structures with wie/als markers with subject of the comparison and structures with wie/als markers without subject of the comparison.