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Communication
This field is related both to philosophy
(works of later Husserl, e.g. Ideas II, are
devoted to the intersubjective realm of ideas
developed in interaction with the world and
within the community) and to linguistics
(language is the primary to tool for creation and
maintenance of meanings). Each communication act
is both personal (it necessarily involves two
persons: the one that conveys information, and
the one that consumes it) and intersubjective (it
is successful, if both sides assume difference
and similarity between them). The notion of
information transmission is significantly reduced
without the second person, which has an access to
conveyed information and wants to understand
it. Carefully planned communication should take
into account such an undetermined potential
reader and “empathisize” into the way
information can be understood by him/her.
My interests in communication studies focus on
practices of social communities for creation and
maintenance of meanings in the intersubjective
space of ideas. In particular, this concerns
global communication technologies, which still do
not destroy the human factor: information placed
on the web should be read by a person interested
in it. Global communication technologies
alleviate constraints of space: members of a
community should not be necessarily located in
the same place. However, the notion of a
community to establish communication between its
members is primary for means through which
communication is achieved. On the other hand,
such a mean as Internet changes conditions in
which persons can access information and understand
it. New tools based in Internet include
searching for information using structured
knowledge sources (for example, natural language
access to XML-encoded data) and presenting
information (for example, information
presentation tailored to target language of the
user and his/her level of expertise).
My on-line papers on the topic
Comments/suggestions about their content are
welcome.
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| Meaning and context in a
Husserl-inspired model |
A draft submitted to the special issue
“Context in context” (http://www.cpm.mmu.ac.uk/~bruce/cinc/):
- The paper draws an opposition between two
paradigms in treatment of lexical
meanings. The first paradigm models
lexical meanings by means of definitions
of categories of some sort. According to
the second paradigm, lexical meanings are
treated as resources for communication.
The paper advocates the second paradigm
and investigates the relationship between
lexical items and context they are used
in. A meaning description mechanism
proposed in this paper relates
meaning-endowing acts (in the tradition
of Husserl and Jakobson) and the
systemic-functional linguistics
(Halliday). This mechanism is discussed
in application to tasks of multilingual
generation, in which the lexicogrammar
serves as an intermediate layer for
realization of concepts of the domain
model in utterances of different natural
languages.
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| The
semiotics of "Choose Multiline from the Draw
toolbar" |
A paper published at the 5th International
Congress on Terminology and Knowledge
Engineering, Innsbruck (Austria), 24-28 August
1999, pp. 594-602:
- The paper advocates three theses: (a) the
nature of terms is founded in the nature
of language as the intersubjective medium
for transmission of the social stock of
knowledge; (b) relations between notions
of a problem domain and their expression
in text depend not only on the
propositional (ideational) content of
words, but also on the interpersonal and
textual functions of language; (c) these
methodological considerations are helpful
for applications in computational
linguistics, in particular, in AGILE, our
project for multilingual generation of
software manuals.
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