The overall cognitive picture deals with the fact that the subject creates a picture of the world, coordinates individual cognitive acts and expands constantly the sphere of application of these acts. The article highlights the evolution of scientific paradigms in modern science, in particular linguistics, analyzes the polyparadigmatic and integrative nature of modern linguistic studies, which are impossible without a unity of the issues of consciousness, language system, culture and society. Analyzing various scientific paradigms, we state the change of the categorical apparatus and research methods, their evolutionary content-based complication
scientific paradigms; approaches; classification; language system; evolution; polyparadigmality; integrativity