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Philological methods of the research of states and changes of the consciousness over its’ reflections in text and language

N.A. Bubnova, O.I. Valentinova, M.A. Rybakov
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https://doi.org/10.20339/PhS.5-17.108

 

Bubnova Nataliya A.,

PhD, assistant professor,

Chair of general and Russian linguistics

Philological Faculty,

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University ), Moscow

e-mail: bubnova_na@pfur.ru

 

Valentinova Olga I.,

PhD, Doctor of Philology, professor,

Chair of general and Russian linguistics

Philological Faculty,

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow

e-mail: valentinova_oi@pfur.ru

 

Rybakov Michail A.,

PhD, associated professor,

Chair of general and Russian linguistics

Philological Faculty,

Peoples’ Friendship University of Russia (RUDN University), Moscow

e-mail: rybakov_ma@pfur.ru

 

This paper presents an attempt to use the systemological approach as the leading method of investigating the state of consciousness of the authors of texts from different eras, different types, different genres, as well as a method for detection of latent changes of consciousness of a speaker.

Systemological approach based on linguistic theory of G.P. Melnikov has already proven its high explanatory power in the general problems of linguistic theory and in the language typology. The high scientific potential of the systemology allows to expand the scope of application of the method to the study of texts. In this case the systemological method reveals features of a such state of consciousness, which in principle can not be described by using other tools.

Not all methods offered by modern philological science and used to study the state of consciousness are universal, i.e. applicable to all types of texts. The article shows that the extrapolation of certain methods of research on the diversity of texts without taking into account their specificity can lead to semiotic and methodological error.

The idea of the article is reinforced by the provisions expressed in the writings of prominent linguists W. von Humboldt, A.A. Potebnya, G.P. Melnikov, the founder bibliopsychology N.A. Rubakin, founders of cognitive linguistics G. Lakoff and M. Jonson, philosopher P. Florensky.

Keywords: law of Humboldt – Potebnya − Rubakin, concept, conceptualization, methodological error, concept as activity, overcome of the inertia of perception, equivalency of form and content, semiotic error, systemic linguistics, systemology, mnemonic theory, the nature of the sign — meaning correlation.

 

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