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I argue that before we discuss multidisclipinary project combing linguistics with other sciences, we have to define the object of linguistics more sharply than it is usually done in the current research. There is a common prejudice that linguistics is a proper part of philology. Nope. Linguistics is a autonomous discipline which is addressed the mechanisms of language structure realized automatically. There are no linguistic units above the sentence. Any research task addressing the unique features of a given text or aiming at explaining the genre features of texts belongs to philology. Philology is neither worse nor better than linguistics, it is just a different science. The great deal of the modern linguistic pragmatics including the speech act theory, the account of information structure, presuppositions etc. etc is not part of the linguistics in the proper sense of the term. This fact is just covered by the application of the part of the linguistic apparatus.