Introduction to Organizational Psycholinguistics.

The paper introduces organizational psycholinguistics as an approach to professional communication i.e., the communication in organizations. The author systematizes a number of theories and concepts as a methodological basis of organizational psycholinguistics. The organizational psycholinguistics methodology is based on Theory of Speech Activity. Organizational psycholinguistics analyzes the communication aimed at a joint activity organization. At the same time, speech activity itself is an activity towards an independent goal to modify a partner's psychic state to involve him/her in a joint activity. The article describes goals, objects, subjects, tasks of the organizational psycholinguistics. The author indicates the methods used in the organizational psycholinguistic research and outlines prospects for further research in this field.