PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERSTANDING OF PROSPECTS OF THE CODIFICATION OF LANGUAGE AS A FACTOR OF SCIENCE DEVELOPMENT

LOGIC, METHODOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE

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https://doi.org/10.15407/fd2022.02.125

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language codification, language of science, symbolic system, social institutions, functions of the language of science codification

Abstract

The codification of language has both its advantages and disadvantages, both its prospects and its limitations. It is possible to determine this not from linguistic, but from meta-scientific, namely philosophical positions. At the heart of the codification procedure is the creation of specialized dictionaries based on a particular national language. The language of science is also always built on the basis of a certain national language — even if this language later serves as the language of international scientific communication (for example, English). At the same time, codification of the language of science should reproduce the most significant resources of natural language as a symbolic system, as well as develop the institutional potential of science based on the capabilities of language as an institution. The codification of language of science should perform three main functions: descriptive-classification, system-legitimation and projective-predictive.

The language of science is the embodiment of the symbolic universe studied by social phe- nomenologists Peter Berger and Thomas Luckmann, and at the same time must correspond to the four main functions of the system of action, which were distinguished by Talcott Parsons. Codification is a relentless process that reflects and stimulates the development of language as a symbolic system, the meaning of which is set by specific language practices. The language of science is a set of all language practices of scientists in various fields, these practices must be harmonized through the codification of the language of science, while they constantly stimulate the renewal of codification of the language of science. It should be done through the creation of new practices and new scientific objects — and through the extrapolation of the application of existing terminology to new scientific fields as well.

Author Biography

Oleh KUBALSKYI

PhD in Philosophy, Associate Professor, Leading Researcher at the Dobrov Institute for Scientific and Technological Potential and Science History Studies, National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, 60 Taras Shevchenko Boulevard, Kyiv, 01032

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KUBALSKYI, O. . (2022). PHILOSOPHICAL UNDERSTANDING OF PROSPECTS OF THE CODIFICATION OF LANGUAGE AS A FACTOR OF SCIENCE DEVELOPMENT : LOGIC, METHODOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE. Filosofska Dumka, (2), 125–136. https://doi.org/10.15407/fd2022.02.125

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