APPLIED LINGUISTICS AND THE PRESSING NEED OF THE HOUR

Applied Linguistics and the pressing need of the hour

I argue in this paper that Linguistics can ill afford any more not to address the threat posed by burgeoning populist tendencies all over the world, coupled with the alarming spread of fake DISH SOAP news and little regard for truth.We, researchers in the area of language, have a duty to intervene in the developing state of affairs with all that we

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Structural and Semantic Features and Ways of Translation of Military Discourse Terminology (on Material of English Periodicals)

The most productive ways of formation of modern terminology of military discourse - multicomponent combinations - are covered.Appeal to the study of military terminology is relevant due to its intensive development in conditions of modern technological progress.The basic structural formulas of multicomponent terminological combinations and most pro

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A transcontinental challenge--a test of DNA barcode performance for 1,541 species of Canadian Noctuoidea (Lepidoptera).

This study provides a first, comprehensive, diagnostic use of DNA barcodes for the Canadian fauna of noctuoids or "owlet" moths (Lepidoptera: Noctuoidea) based on vouchered records for 1,541 species (99.1% species coverage), and more than 30,000 sequences.When viewed from a Canada-wide perspective, DNA barcodes unambiguously discriminate 90% of the

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Osmotic stress in banana is relieved by exogenous nitric oxide

Drought is one of the severe environmental stresses threatening agriculture around the globe.Nitric oxide plays diverse roles in plant growth and defensive responses.Despite a few studies supporting the role of nitric oxide in plants under drought responses, little is known about its pivotal molecular amendment in the regulation of stress signaling

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