On April 8, Hakimova Dildora Ikromovna, a researcher of Samarkand State University, defended the thesis "Pragmatic features of phraseological units in military discourse (in the example of English and Uzbek languages)" written for receiving the degree of the Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Philological Sciences, majoring in 10.00.06 - "Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics and Translation Studies".