The discussion questions of the language of science and the semiotic model of the ideal language

Yuri K. Volkov
Nation­al Research Lobachevsky State Uni­ver­si­ty of Nizh­ni Nov­gorod, Arza­mas Branch

The dis­cus­sion ques­tions of the lan­guage of sci­ence and the semi­otic mod­el of the ide­al lan­guage

Abstract. The arti­cle aims to describe the main prob­lems that can become a sub­stan­tive basis for the jour­nal the­mat­ic sec­tion “The Dis­cus­sion Ques­tions of the Lan­guage of Sci­ence” actu­al­iz­ing in the con­text of the semi­otic par­a­digm. The author has set and achieved two major objec­tives, which deter­mined the gen­er­al log­i­cal and seman­tic struc­ture of the arti­cle. These objec­tives include re- view­ing the main Russ­ian jour­nals pub­lished on the lan­guage of sci­ence and the actu­al­iza­tion of the prob­lems of the ide­al lan­guage into pos­si­bil­i­ties includ­ing the lan­guage of sci­ence through the semi­otic mod­el pro­posed by Charles Mor­ris. The syn­tac­tic, seman­tic, and prag­mat­ic aspects of the ide­al sign-lan­guage sys­tem are used as grounds for dif­fer­en­ti­at­ing the syn­chron­ic and diachron­ic prob­lems of the lan­guage of sci­ence. As shown in the arti­cle, the main semi­otic prob­lems of the lan­guage into pos­si­bil­i­ties and the lan­guage in real­i­ty include ques­tions relat­ed to the pecu­liar­i­ties of using the syn­tac­tic, seman­tic and prag­mat­ic rules. For syn­tac­tics, such rules are the require­ments con­cern­ing the pro­ce­dure for con­struct­ing and trans­form­ing a lan­guage sys- tem. For seman­tics, these are rules for apply­ing signs to des­ig­nat­ed objects. For prag­mat­ics, these are rules of inter­pre­ta­tion of signs. The over­all pos­i­tive assess­ment of Mor­ris’ meta-lan­guage mod­el as a nor­ma­tive lan­guage matrix bases on the absence of gen­er­al­ly accept­ed and sta­ble the­o­ries of lan­guage dif­fer­ing from the semi­otic lan­guage doc­trine. At the same time the mod­ern semi­otics does not lim­it the range of its cog­ni­tive inter­ests to the lev­el of speech dis­cours­es of the sign-lan­guage sys­tem, the stan­dard of seman­tic cor­rect­ness of which includes the lan­guage of sci­ence. Today the object of semi­otics cov­ers var­i­ous types of lan­guage prac­tices, which, being imple­ment­ed in the lan­guage, are not lim­it­ed to it. In this con­text, the arti­cle attempts to encour­age inter­dis­ci­pli­nary dis­cus­sion plat­forms focus­ing on the actu­al debat­able prob­lems of lan­guage to be cre­at­ed with­in such advanced forms of peri­od­i­cals, as philo­soph­i­cal­ly ori­ent­ed e-jour­nals.

Key­words: lan­guage of sci­ence, jour­nal peri­od­i­cals, ide­al lan­guage, meta-lan­guage, semi­otic mod­el by Charles Mor­ris, main aspects of lan­guage, rules for the con­struc­tion, using and inter­pre­ta­tion of signs

DOI: 10.5840/dspl20192229

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