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The article discusses the concept of text and textcentricity as the basic concepts of the applied linguistics. The article notes that the interest of scientists to the analysis of text is associated with the textcentricity of the humanities in general and of linguistics in particular, since the language system in the communication process is actualized not in an isolated sentence but in the texts of different types and purposes. We believe that the text, being the center of the humanities and determining its textc...

The paper dwells upon the historical process of introducing multilingual dictionaries into the Russian linguistics and its influence upon the Russian lexicography development. In the article two first Russian multilingual dictionaries of P.S. Pallas (1787-1789) and of T. Yankovich de Mirievo (1790-1791) were examined. It is noted that this type of dictionaries marked the qualitative shift from pure language facts collecting to comparative-historical and typological linguistics beginning, as multilingual dictionary...