THE THESAURUS PERSONALITY. DIALOGUES ON LINGUISTICS AND BEYOND WITH ACADEMICIAN V. M. ALPATOV (I)

Aim. To analyze the traditions and the current state of linguistics through the prism of comparative historical and anthropological evolution of scientific ideas using the example of V. M. Alpatov’s linguistic personality. Methodology. The main method is linguopersonological, which makes it possible to study the stages of a scientist’s formation, his professional interests and discoveries, and describe the communicative features of a linguistic personality. The historical and linguistic method analyzes events and people related to the formation of linguistic traditions. A sociolinguistic method is also used to investigate extralinguistic factors that influenced the formation of scientific concepts. Biographical, psycholinguistic, and historical-cultural methods substantiate the axiological characteristics of a personality, reveal the linguistic picture of the scientist’s world, supplement it with rare facts, identify constants, and show individual author’s speech-behavioral tactics. Results. A model of sociolinguistic communicative experiment was developed and applied, the content of which was the identification of unique personal properties of V. M. Alpatov as a linguistic personality. For the first time in the practice of communicating with a scientist, author’s material has been collected about the life and work of his parents, who held prominent public positions in science, and teachers who influenced the formation of V. M. Alpatov’s professional views. The facts of the evolution of the axiological, anthropological and linguistic worldviews of the second half of the XX – beginning of the XXI century are traced in a comparative historical perspective. The main patterns of the formation and development of V. M. Alpatov’s scientific biography, included in the general context of historical, cultural and socio-political changes in the country, are identified and characterized. Research implications. A heuristic experiment has been conducted to demonstrate and refine the methods and techniques of modern linguistics. An experiment on the cognitive analysis of scientific creativity was carried out. The problems of linguistics of the XX century are actualized and critically reconsidered in the context of promising ideas of linguistics of the XXI century. The practical significance lies in the demonstration and use of V. M. Alpatov’s scientific and theoretical experience in the professional activities of historians, orientalists and linguists – in source studies, linguoculturology, orientalism, linguistic typology, historiography of linguistics, sociolinguistics, translation studies and linguistic prognostics. Scientific dialogue as a genre makes it possible to describe and systematize the communicative features of a linguistic personality, to use this experience in the practice of preparing discussion materials on topical issues of humanitarian knowledge. Conversations about linguistics can be used as additional material to journalistic practice, lectures and seminars in university courses “General Linguistics”, “History of Linguistic studies”, “Introduction to Linguistics”, “Theory of Communication”, “Sociolinguistics”, “History of Russia”