The proposed manual includes a detailed program of the discipline "Actual problems of modern linguistics", a textbook and a system of tasks of a creative and problematic nature. The publication is intended to provide a study of the cycle of General linguistic disciplines: language Theory, General linguistics, Current problems of modern linguistics, included in the block of special disciplines of the state educational standard in the direction of "Philology", as well as in the educational standard for training masters in the areas of" Philology "and"Language education". For students, undergraduates, postgraduates, teachers of Philology.