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6. LANGUAGE AND SYMBOLS OF CULTURE
In culture, there are various sign systems, or languages of culture: natural language, written texts, folklore, traditions, household items, rituals, etiquette, various types of art.
language of culture - a set of all sign methods of verbal and non-verbal communication, with the help of which culturally significant information is transmitted.
Language is the most universal sign system. The main means of cognition and communication are natural languages. Along with them, there are artificial languages (the language of science, road signs, conventional signals) and secondary languages (myth, religion, art).
cultural experience humanity is also expressed in texts. The problems of decoding textual information are studied within the framework of semiotics (the science of sign systems) and hermeneutics (the science that deals with the interpretation, interpretation of texts).
cultural text is an expression of the deep semantic field of culture. But the meaning is most often not rigidly determined by a word or a sign, but can be given to a phenomenon depending on the cultural context, the time of pronunciation or writing, and subjective experience.
In natural languages and languages of culture, it is possible to deepen the levels of meaning: there is a direct, indirect, figurative, hidden meaning, etc.
The most superficial level of meaning is the so-called common sense, which is generally accepted, expressed verbally (verbally) at the level of consciousness. The deepest level of meaning is that unmanifested content that connects a person with the world of values, laws, patterns of behavior of a given culture.
Cultural semantics deals with the study of cultural objects from the point of view of the meaning they express. Cultural objects are considered in cultural semantics as a means of transmitting culturally significant information - the meaning behind some object, which acts as a sign (a substitute for this information) and understanding (comprehension of information transmitted using a sign).
Understanding is the most important aspect of the functioning of the language of culture. During communication (exchange of signs), there is inevitably a certain inadequacy of understanding, a moment of interpretation that distorts the original meaning.
Culture also expresses itself through the world of symbols - signs that have no objective meaning, but through which the meaning of the object itself is revealed. With the help of symbols, information is transmitted by means that exceed the capabilities of language (these means are coats of arms, emblems, color symbols, gestures, etc.). Symbols in religion and art are of particular importance. Each type of art has its own figurative and symbolic language (there is the language of music, dance, painting, cinema, theater, etc.).
Author: Barysheva A.D.
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