CHANGE OF PARADIGMALTIC VECTOR IN MODERN LINGUISTICS: SOME METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS
Authors:   Ukrainian Lingua-Informational Fund of the NAS of Ukraine, SHYROKOV V.A. 
Published: February 2023

The ideas of the evolutionary-informational-phenomenological paradigm of linguistic research are under investigation. The current state of linguistic science is analyzed in the context of the development of the latest stage of scientific knowledge, which is characterized by a significant expansion of the conceptual space of research, the interpenetration of disparate scientific paradigms, epistemes and methods, and the blurring of boundaries between different areas of knowledge. The urgent need for intellectualization of equipment and technology is emphasized, caused, first, by the information and network crisis. It is emphasized that the belief that intelligence is a form of individualization of systems, which possesses a language status, is being strengthened in the professional community. In this connection, research hypotheses are formulated, which should form the basis of modern linguistic research. The first hypothesis concerns the informational essence of language. The second claims that the presence of language status is a necessary condition for intelligence. The third arises from the evolutionary nature of the emergence of language. If you think consistently, it is a consequence and a product of social, biological, and general evolution of nature and society. Modern linguistics, having realized that the object of its research — language — is evolutionary, has an informational nature, and in the substantive sense is a carrier of intelligence, faced a cardinal problem for itself: to realize and understand at a fundamental level the nature of the emergence and formation of connections between language and intelligence (and vice versa). The general theory of evolution in its author’s version, which is based on the phenomenological concept of complexity, was chosen as the main methodological base. Three main laws of evolution are presented the law of increasing complexity (a necessary condition for evolution), the law of temporal dynamics of complexity, and the law of anticipatory growth of the so-called «parasitic» complexity. The application of the theory of evolution as a research methodology allows finding out the evolutionary connections between the neural and communication mechanisms of evolution — on the one hand, and other mechanisms on the other. Trace, as far as possible, the evolutionary retrospective of the mentioned connections and the limits of intellectual monopoly claims (anthropocentric, on the one hand, and technotronic, on the other). The next methodological principle is related to the mechanism of extracting from the continuous flow of reality complexes of discrete language units that are carriers of certain semantic properties. The phenomenological basis for this is provided by the information phenomenon of an extremely general nature that we discovered, which we call the lexicographic effect in information systems and which reveals the mechanism of generation from the language continuum of certain discrete complexes sufficient for an adequate representation of reality. This phenomenon provides a theoretical basis for modern processes of digitization, which have acquired a comprehensive character. The last principle of research in the new paradigm is the definition of system-creating components of the concept of system, namely: «Structure», «Substance» and «Subject». The complex of concepts «information», «intelligence», «evolution», «system» and «lexicographic effect» forms the conceptual environment of the evolutionaryinformational- phenomenological paradigm, which provides an epistemological balance between empiricism and metaphysics and introduces the methodology of linguistics to the circle of close methodological principles natural and information technology sciences.