The Department of Foreign Languages in collaboration with the Department of German Philology held an interdepartmental scientific seminar "Modern Vectors of Linguistic Research: Cognitive Linguosynergetics". The speaker was Tatsenko Nataliia, PHD in Philology, Head of the Department of Foreign Languages of Sumy State University. Nataliia Tatsenko highlighted the achievements, prospects and challenges of modern linguistics, in particular, in the paradigm of cognitive linguistic synergetics.

The participants of the seminar explored the preconditions for the emergence of this new direction of linguistics, touched upon the history of synergetics, linguosynergetics and cognitive linguistics. The speaker involved the audience in a comprehensive analysis of the concept of EMPATHY, verbalized in modern English discourse. Among the issues discussed were also the issues of compiling explanatory dictionaries, the authors of which must respond to changes in society and update the content of lexicographical publications.

Presentation of the seminar