LINGUISTIC BASIS FOR THE GENERAL THEORY OF THE LINGUISTIC CONSCIOUSNESS
The paper discusses the theoretical and methodological prerequisites for the creation of a general theory of linguistic consciousness, including a set of experiments capable of testing it and possibly of verifying the validity of some of its points. The main idea of such a theory of linguistic consciousness is a parallel and interconnected analysis of external (social) and internal (personal) factors in their way to impact language which must be viewed from the anthropocentric perspective. A general theory of linguistic consciousness should incorporate: 1. a theory of language as an individual phenomenon, as a group one and as an abstract scientific semiotic system; 2. universal methods of describing any aspects and forms of existence of an object; 3. principles from which the phenomenological properties of the object and the methodological characteristics of the theory are deduced. The provisions of the theory and the underlying experimental research will allow us to determine how the internal (emotions, values, etc.) and external (age, profession, etc.) conditions will cause changes of the word meanings and of their interconnections.