Journal of Danubian Studies and Research, Vol 8, No 2 (2018)

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to clarify peculiarities of general and specific scientific methods applied to linguistic research and to distinguish between induction, deduction, analysis and synthesis as well as descriptive, comparative, structural, sociolinguistic, psycholinguistic and mathematic methods. Theoretical justification of understanding, measuring and keeping distinctive features of the presented methods used in European linguistic researches is the finding of investigation. The practical value of the theoretical justification of methods is to use its results for fundamental studies of all lexico-semantic sub-systems of value paradigms of the Ukrainian, English and French language societies.