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Speech Communication in Terms of Cognition
The paper presents various approaches to defining the essence of a sign in cognitive
science and philosophy of language. It offers presentations of critical review of research
publications on sign processes. Based on extensive theoretical work in a cognitive approach
to communication process, the hypothesis that each speaker of a language acts exclusively
within the framework of their cognitive area is supported in the article. Given the results,
meaning as a fact of consciousness is closed in it and during the “translation” of meanings
they are not transmitted: signs cannot be considered to be carriers of meanings in the
sense that meanings making up a part of their material body are contained in them. The
material components of signs stimulate the appearance of identical or similar meanings,
actuating analogous conceptual spheres in communicating minds.