About the book: 1978 / Language is, in the words of Marx, “the reality of thought” and, like any other reality, has an inexhaustible wealth of content. Hence - a huge number of linguistic disciplines, and among them those that were born recently at the “junction” of linguistics with mathematics, cybernetics, semiotics (the science of sign systems). It is these newly born linguistic disciplines, what they do and what results they come to, that are discussed in this book, the first edition of which was published in 1966. The author of the book is a candidate of philological sciences. For a wide range of readers.