The Notion of Language Myth in Papers of Some Modern Foreign Linguists
Integrationism and ideas of its founder, R.Harris, are still not widely known in Russian linguistics, and it makes the topic of the article up to date. The purpose of the article is to study the notion language myth within the framework of an integrated approach and show its transformation. The hypothesis is that the meaning language myth implies that in a language there is a set of rules that form the unlimited list of pairs in which one element is a set of sounds or written signs and the other element is its meaning. Language myth also implies knowledge of rules that unite people into language communities; context of situation must be taken into account. Moreover, the author gives some other meanings of the notion developed by foreign scholars in their papers. The methods of research include analysis of the works by the linguists. There is a conclusion about continuity of the views and different possible ways of seeing the notion.