Speech Communication in Terms of Cognition

Revista de Investigaciones Universidad del Quindío. 2022. Vol. 34. No. S3. P. 82–89.

Pesina S. A., Kiseleva S. V., Rudakova S. V., Vinogradova S. A., Trofimova N., Novikov D. N.

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.
 

Keywords: communication, meaning, Cognitive Linguistics, concept, biocognitive science, language sign