Metatheory of linguistics in its time and social environment

The article opens the problem with its historical review (A. Losev, Viach. Ivanov, F. Rossi-Landi, B. Porshnev) and highlights the author’s two-dimensional metatheory of 1989, the reasons for its emergence coming mainly from the needs of didactics, its public defence in 1992 and its analytical criticism in professional, educational and media spheres. The real two-dimensional space, measured semiologically and epistemologically, was modelled in the exposition of the Linguistic Educational Museum at Taras Shevchenko University of Kyiv in 1992. The first systemic textbook « The Basics of Linguistics» of 2007 was also based on the same metatheory (incorporating ideas of T. Milewski, J. Horecký, J. Dubois and Ch. Hockett). The article then focuses on the circumstances that opened the third and fourth dimensions of the linguistic metatheoretical space. Their synthesis is described as a 4-dimensional space of the Linguistic Metatheory Мεγας. The four axes of this space correspond to the two previously discussed in the metatheory-1989 (Мς semiology, Мε epistemology), and two others new-seized (Мγ gnoseology, Мα aspectology). The following meta-theoretical features are located on the named axes: Мς — SDITW (ethnolanguages/ Sprachen, dialects, idiolects, texts, words); Мε — FBNHR (facts, branches, unities, theories1/ doctrines, regularities); Мγ — OEUYA (problems, methods, arguments, hypothesis/ theories2, aprobation); Мα — QLPGV (accumulation, langue, parole, genesis, evolution). Thus, a huge metatheoretical space is obtained, ready for the unambiguous placement of any fragment of linguistic knowledge in it. Every input study topic of linguistics obtains 4–5 marks, the research knowledge has more of them. This system can be also offered as an alternative to the arbitrarly chosen basis in improving semantic classifications such as UDC.