Vol. 26 No. 2 (33) (2022)

Today media and translation have become two inseparable fields that play an integral role in international news reporting. They not only convey information to the reader, but also facilitate this flow of information to a wide range of audiences. The paper makes an attempt to reveal the common challenges and difficulties in news media text translation. We specifically focus on some linguistic and stylistic features of media texts and propose certain strategies for their appropriate translation from English into Armenian which will make the translation culturally acceptable for the target reader.

The present paper is devoted to the study of some peculiarities of political discourse. The aim of the research is to examine the notion of discourse as well as to provide the analysis of a political speech by Emmanuel Macron at the lexical level. The research is carried out with reference to the speech by the French President at the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) in Glasgow. Within the framework of the research, the lexical peculiarities of Emmanuel Macron's speech have been presented.

In the present paper, the non-obvious manifestations of the author’s opinion in the journalistic text are studied, taking the means of alethic modality as a basis, which at the implicit level acquire the indirect inductive function due to linguistic units with suggestive value, in particular, quotations and references, marking deviations and anaphoric structures.

PSAs have developed in Armenia during the recent years. Though they are rather few in number, it is possible to group them thematically. One of the most important themes of Armenian PSAs is healthcare, with topics like prevention of smoking, HIV/AIDS, and Coronavirus infection. For the purpose of effectiveness, print PSAs incorporate linguistic texts and images. The intentional application of both linguistic and extra[1]linguistic means aims at fostering the illocutionary force of advertisements in promoting healthy lifestyle.

Thе paper deals with the conceptualization of time with metonymies and metaphors in British and Armenian folk tales. Folk tale text as an imaginative and fictitious phenomenon carries some vivid aspects of unconscious and is considered to be a valuable material for linguistic research.

The examples under analysis illustrate that in both British and Armenian folk tales the abstract concept of time is metaphorized as subject, space, and object. Moreover, the study shows that rituals, lifestyles, agricultural activities, natural phenomena, food products, and names of kingdoms are widely used as metonymies in the folk tale genre.

The present paper reflects on the importance of cultural awareness in ESP classes and suggests incorporating some cultural elements of American studies into the course of teaching English. To explore the depth of the student’s familiarity with the culture of the target language, a survey was conducted among the students of different departments at Yerevan State University. The paper also suggests introducing a series of classes on American culture, which will complement the core ESP class and give the learners an opportunity to enrich their knowledge of the culture of a country that has the largest English-speaking population.

The paper demonstrates the findings of the experimental study into the efficiency of blended learning when teaching English for Special Purposes to students applying miscellaneous online tools and platforms in the teaching process, as well as analyzes how best to apply these methods and techniques to achieve success and engage students in the lessons with more beneficial and interest-provoking activities.
The study was conducted among first-year students studying in their bachelor’s degree program, during the first semester by previously testing their initial knowledge of English via a diagnostic test and later, after some lessons held, a set of formative assessments (tests) were carried out to discover how effective blended learning was and if they improved their knowledge after the installation of this learning modality.
The results showed that the knowledge improved and increased substantially in the experimental group where blended learning methods were applied, while the control group based on traditional teaching methods had comparatively little progress.

The culture of academic integrity is not strongly developed in the Armenian educational context, which has a direct impact on the quality of education in the country. This paper raises some important questions concerning academic environment in Armenian schools and universities and the factors leading to academic dishonesty. It considers specific cases of cheating, plagiarism and facilitation in an ESP classroom (namely, Political English) and proposes steps to potentially counter the issue.

The paper studies the peculiarities of consecutive interpreting in view of the theories and methods put forth by various translation scholars. It attempts to shed light on the mental operations that take place while interpreting and highlights the obstacles and challenges that interpreters face during that complex process. The paper also examines the common methods and strategies applied to interpreter training and proposes new ones alongside some exercises that can be used to provide learners with adequate training and required degree of skill. The choice of exercises is based on the Effort Model, proposed by D. Gile, which points to the main processes on which interpreters spend most of their mental energy.

Ernest Hemingway’s creative legacy, which is directly bound up with his personal experience and was later reflected in his autobiographical fiction, remains relevant even nowadays both in terms of its themes and the methods of literary embodiment. This paper focuses on individual provisions and observations regarding the art forms, style, and language in Hemingway’s war prose.