The Destiny Of Language As A Medium To The History Of Communication

Abstract

This research is relative to the philosophy of language. The author considers the concepts of “language fatigue” and “fatigue from language” as interrelated processes that confirm Derrida’s thesis about “language inflation” and its textual forms. The main method of the research is “archaeology of knowledge” as proposed by M. Foucault. Relying on the ideas of F. de Saussure, M. McLuhan and V. V. Kolesov we can develop a concept of the impending transformation of the basic medium of communication - language itself. The author of the article suggests paying attention to two possible visions of this transformation: on the one hand, language as a form of everyday communication is already undergoing a powerful pressure from symbolic-figurative forms of communication, and on the other there is the prospect of turning language into an instrument of the art of literature and the ultimate flowering of language capacity in forms of high art (fiction, poetry). These historical perspectives clarify the actual tasks of linguistics as a scientific discipline: firstly, to monitor modern communication with the purpose of timely revealing the symbolic-figurative forms of information exchange; secondly, to study the state of language in forms of verbal art that can become the only repository of national languages.