RESEARCHING WRITTEN MONUMENTS IN THE CONTEXT OF CHANGING SCIENTIFIC PARADIGMS

The scientific paradigm of the 21st century has acquired anthropocentric drift. In modern linguistic studies, the anthropocentric approach also occupies a dominant position: the researcher’s attention is refocused from objects of cognition (lingual units of different levels) to the subject; thus, linguists analyze an individual in language and language in an individual. The article presents an attempt to define the range of problems of modern linguistic diachronic researches about lingual personality, lingual consciousness, the language of the epoch. The preconditions of involving the concept of "lingual personality" in the research arsenal of historical linguistics are analyzed. It has been found out that the text becomes a key material for studies of historical lingual personology. The language of ancient texts is studied as the expression and result of creativity of lingual personality. Through the ancient texts of the preaching genre, the object of linguistic analysis in studies, which are analyzed in article, gradually "visualized" church-religious picture of the world as an element of the lingual picture of the world, there is an opportunity to analyze changes in it, to study the specificity of religious (confessional) linguistic personality, from religious communication at that time. It is defined that the prospective research direction is the lexicographic direction of lingual personology; the possibilities of studying the language of the epoch based on texts are analyzed. Key words: anthropocentric linguistic, lingual personology, lingual personality, lingual consciousness, the language of the epoch, written monuments.