On May 31 of this year, Umida Mamatyusufovna Abduvakhobova, a researcher at the International University of Tourism and Cultural Heritage "Silk Road", successfully defended her thesis titled "Pragmatic-stylistic means of depicting human values in the ST and TT of the works by Herbert E. Bates" to obtain the scientific degree of Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Philological Sciences, specializing in 10.00.06 - Comparative Literature, Contrastive Linguistics, and Translation Studies.