The survey is devoted to the first issue of the annual «Philological Studies of Communication» published by the Publishing House of Altai State University. The edition deals with the objects of philo-logical studies of communication (school textbooks, communication strategies and tactics, evocation pattern of communication, Internet communication, etc.), discourse as a philological and communication topic, different properties of the text. The annual considers various aspects of applied philological research of communication – teaching communication, media communication, juridical linguistics, Russian as a second language. Some extracts of the works by foreign scientists are given in their original and translated variants. The last part («Chronicle») contains information on the International academic seminar Philology and Communication Science throughout Culture, Science and Education: the 21st century (Barnaul, Altai State University, 8 April, 2014).