Author: I.A. Schirova
Affiliation: Herzen State Pedagogical University
Abstract:
One of the key concepts of modern Linguistics –“language personality” is treated in the article as a complex phenomenon, which correlates with the complexity of modern world and of modern science. Thus, the strategies, used to describe this phenomenon, no matter whether the description refers to real communication or fictional communication, are analyzed in terms of the category of complexity.
Keywords: language personality, the category of complexity, modelling, hypothetical constructs, wholistic tendencies, integrative research