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The article presents the first attempt to give description of the process of creation, evolvement and operation of the Lviv Scientific Centre of Psycholinguistics since its foundation till present time within the context of historiography. It provides the generalized information about activity of the sciences who have worked at the Centre, and sets out problems of psycholinguistics they have dealt with, it gives an account of the significance of the contribution made by I. Franko in the theory of psycholinguistics who is considered the founder of Psycholinguistic as a science in Ukraine . The article outlines the specifics of the scientific achievements reached by T. Kosmedi and F.Batsevych in the sphere of psycholinguistics with reference to the problems they focused on while studied traditional and weird texts , characteristics of psychology of iconic linguistic personalities and major problems of linguodidactics. Special attention focused on specifics of selection of texts in the educational methodical manuals what presents perception of the language as phenomenon of collective psychology and culture and complies with the principle of national centrism . It demonstrates theoretical and practical value of the updated content of the educational manuals for study of the Ukrainian language as foreign one what helps foreign students to comprehend Ukrainian language as assets of the Ukrainian ethnic group. It presents achievements of the Ukrainian associative lexography developed, in particular, by N. Butenko , S. Martinek, V, Mitkov, the linguistic factual material implying naïve ( routine) vision of the world what helps to percept language as a psychological phenomenon and simultaneously promotes the Ukrainian theory of lexicography. The above stuff presents tenacity of traditions and potential of promotion of the above addressed problems. The prospective of this studies calls for introduction of the advanced experience of the Ukrainian psycholoquistics in the theory and practice of study of the Ukrainian language and promotes scientific discourse while investigation of the news centers of psycholinguistics demonstrating successes of the national science is significant as well. Key words: associative lexography, Ukrainian historiography, linquodidactics, educational and methodological manuals ,psycholinguistics’, Ukrainian language as foreign language.
Віталія Папіш (Thu,) studied this question.