СИСТЕМНІ ОСНОВИ МОВНОГО МОДЕЛЮВАННЯ

Abstract

The article tackles universal mechanisms involved in "irrational rationalization" and verbal creating of alternative worlds. The paper discusses theoretical premises of respective categorization acts and verbal signs' semantic transformations. Verbal modeling of desired or projected states of affairs is regarded as lingual representation of causatively, hierarchically related conceptual structures i.e. as a set of designation acts. Each of the said designation acts is identified as derivational "nano-myth" generating. Both motivation and semantic transformations of designation units used in verbal modeling are determined by irrational and empirically non-verifiable (thus mythic) structures which function as basic categorizational operators. The article introduces systemic universalia-oriented models of myth-related cognitive and verbal practices. Any rational-pragmatic or irrational-creative world modeling unfolds through the stages of involution (verbalizing the construed conceptual structure) and evolution (re-processing and "tuning" semantic clusters, shaping new senses and thus modifying the content and structure of respective concepts). Alternative realities of either conceptual or verbal nature are considered as open systems with isomorphic structure. At the involution stage they pursue their structural and functional development. At the evolution stage they become outward-oriented, interact with other systems und undergo further modification. The paper discusses universal procedural steps ("interfunctions") responsible for the completion of irrational categorization and myth-oriented semiosis. The said interfunctions occur symmetrically at the different levels of systems' development reflecting their intra- or extra-orientation. Successful completion of cyclic-progressive and adaptive semiotic transformations result into the expansion of the logical multiverse.