ON THE ROLE OF PROFESSOR M.K. TREUSHNIKOV IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SCHOOL OF CIVIL PROCEDURE LAW OF THE REPUBLIC OF BELARUS

In this study the author confirms the thesis that the founder of the school of civil procedural law of Belarus is Professor S.V. Kurylev. It is emphasized that some of the main continuers of his ideas were V.G. Tikhini and N.G. Iurkevich, who conducted extensive work on training of scholars of procedural law. The main part of this work is devoted to the role of Professor M.K. Treushnikov in developing the school of civil procedural law of the Republic of Belarus, which was to a great extent realized through interaction with M.K. Treushnikov and V.G. Tikhini, which started with their monographic works that became the basis for their PhD theses. Another important milestone in the development of procedural science and legislation is that M.K. Treushnikov influenced as an organizer of lawmaking and educational process. Examples include his participation in the preparation of the draft of the Civil Procedure Code of the Russian Federation as co-chair of the working group and organization of its discussion with the invitation of scholars from post-Soviet states.

How to defend your dissertation

Many applicants for academic degrees are sure that their main task is to write a good dissertation. In fact, it is necessary to solve not one, but at least two tasks: first, of course, to prepare the work, and secondly, to successfully protect it. But this is not so much a scientific as a managerial problem that requires its own ways and methods of solution. The methods of its solution are discussed in the proposed work. The book is aimed primarily at applicants defending PhD theses, but it may also be of interest to those who are preparing for the defense of doctoral theses or are interested in the organization of scientific activities.

The decolonial turn: reference lists in PhD theses as markers of theoretical shift/stasis in media and journalism studies at selected South African universities

The supervision and production of a PhD thesis often presents a potentially interesting tension between PhDs as conforming to disciplinary epistemologies and PhDs as breaking epistemological boundaries. No academic discipline has been left untouched by decolonial thinking in the South African university space since the eruption of radicalized student protest movements in 2015. The Rhodes Must Fall student protest movement, which quickly morphed into Fees Must Fall, precipitated a new urgency to decolonize the university curriculum in post-apartheid South Africa. A new interdisciplinary conversation in the humanities and social sciences began to emerge which challenged established orthodoxies in favour of de-Westernizing, decolonizing and re-mooring epistemological and pedagogic practices away from Eurocentrism. Whether and how that theoretical ferment filtered into postgraduate students’ theses, however, remains to be established. This article deploys a decolonial theoretical framework to explore the tension between epistemic conformity and boundary transgressing in journalism studies by analysing reference lists of PhD theses submitted at three South African Universities three years after the protest movement Rhodes Must Fall. With specific focus on media and journalism studies as a discipline, this article argues that the PhD process represents a site for potential epistemic disobedience and disciplinary border-jumping, and for challenging the canonical insularity of Western theory in journalism studies. The findings appear to disconfirm the thesis that decolonial rhetoric has had a material influence so far on the media studies curriculum, as reflected in reference lists of cited works in their dissertations.

The most Powerful Thing You’d Say Is Nothing at all: The Power of Silence in Conversation

After a long period of neglect, silence is currently receiving an increased amount of attention in the literature of sociolinguistics and pragmatics. Since the publication of Tannen and Saville-Troike and Jaworski, many international conferences, books, monographs, articles, PhD theses and book chapters continue to emerge. Many of those publications recognized silence as a powerful tool of communication; and that it is not peripheral to speech because any form of analysis that is applied to speech could also be applied to the analysis of silence. Silence has been broadly classified as communicative and non-communicative, and it serves both positive and negative functions. As silence performs two opposite functions, its interpretation depends on some factors such as the socio-cultural background of the actors involved in the use and the interpretation of the silence act, and the context of its use. This chapter starts with an introduction which covers review of related literature, and then proceeds with the classification of silence. It continues with discussing some functions of silence, and then talks about interpretation of silence in social contexts. Finally, the chapter examines some instances of the power of silence in conversation.

La traductologie polonaise en anglais ? Du « centre » et de la « périphérie » de la recherche traductologique en Pologne

The paper focuses on the growing role of English in translation and interpreting Studies in Poland and the possible consequences on communication within the Polish academic community in the country and abroad. Since more than two decades, as a rule, English has been used as a means of communication, with a growing number of publications in Polish journals and reviews, PhD theses defended in Polish universities and conferences held exclusively in English. As in other countries, English has become the main discussion subject in translation and interpreting studies. Consequently, a significant number of researchers who have a limited knowledge of English do not belong to the community of English studies scholars or use other languages as their means of communication and subject of research, are excluded from the scientific debate.Using a sociometric methodology, the paper draws a profile of research and researchers based on the output of their writings and research on translation and interpreting in the years 2015‒2019. It covers the evolution, the characterization of the field of research, the evolution of the Polish academic community, and finally, the dissemination of the Polish scholars’ studies. The survey ends with a reflection on possible perspectives for future sociometric analysis of translation and interpreting studies in Poland.

Thematic selection and progression patterns in L2 theses abstracts from humanities and science

This paper discusses the internal logico-relations of the theses abstracts from humanities and science, written in English as a second language (ESL). A research abstract is an academic text designed to attract and get the readers to read the research study which it summarises; thus, the coherence of ideas presented in it presumably affects the possible evaluations from the readers. Previous studies have examined the Theme/Rheme constructs as important cohesive elements at the level of discourse, with less attention to the sentential analysis of the thematic selection and the progression patterns in second language (L2) theses abstracts. Therefore, this paper aims at investigating and comparing the thematic markedness and its progression patterns as sources of the cohesive information in L2 humanities and science theses abstracts. In this paper, 60 PhD theses abstracts from the Premier University, Nigeria, are analysed. Quantitative and qualitative methods of analysis are applied. The abstracts from humanities and sciences (30 abstracts each) were purposefully selected and syntactically analysed, in terms of the Systemic Functional Linguistics’ model of textual metafunction. The findings show that the theme unmarkedness, as well as the constant theme progression pattern, prevail in the two disciplines, although they feature varying frequencies.