Linguistic Episteme as a Discourse-Generating Mechanism of Speech Activity.

ABSTRACT The author's version of the new linguistic episteme formation – linguistic postmodernism – in terms of synergy of philosophy, linguistic and cultural studies is presented. An attempt is made to substantiate the linguistic episteme as a product of the synergistic convergence of ideas of an entire era in the development of the science of language in the form of (a) a hidden and deep-seated model of thinking that forms the corresponding linguistic picture of the world; (b) a certain original strategy of scientific and cognitive activity (a peculiar set of methodological principles that the linguistic community is guided by in their research practice)