Review of the collective monograph “Linguistics of the first quarter of the 21st century. Trends, results and prospects”

Popova Valentina I.,

Doctor of Pedagogy,

Professor of the Russian Language and Methods of Its Teaching Department

Orenburg State University

e-mail: vip.48@mail.ru

Yakimov Peter A.,

Candidate of Pedagogy, Associate Professor,

Dean of the Philology Faculty

Orenburg State Pedagogical University

e-mail: pyakimov@mail.ru

http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3571-9835

The paper provides an analytical review of the ideas contained in the collective monograph, which show an understanding of the communicative and functional status of linguistic processes in the modern world of the first quarter of the 21st century. The relevance, novelty of the research, its theoretical and practical significance are substantiated. The content of the collective monograph is analyzed in accordance with the main task — to present in a variety of ways the specifics of cognitive and communicative analysis of language as a discursive phenomenon. The review defines the specifics of the object and subject of the monograph — the fact of the multidimensional dialogical existence of the language that a person uses in the scenarios of his daily life. The paper shows the advantages of the author’s approach to summarizing the results of long-term observations of the development of language in action and the verbal-averbal behavior of homo loquens as a cognitive agent during the first twenty-five years of the 21st century and to identify new directions in the study of linguistic processes corresponding to the main trends of world science and the prevailing social relations in the world. The significance and validity of the monograph authors’ appeal to already established terms and concepts that have received a well-established scientific justification, as well as innovative terms are introduced into scientific circulation. The collective monographic work opens up broad horizons for further interdisciplinary research on language in action.

Keywords: linguistics of the first quarter of the 21st century, language in action, communicative interaction, discursology.