Sense as linguistic philosophic phenomenon

The formation of a consistent linguistic-philosophical doctrine of the essence of sense consists in the detection of regularities of its ontological correlations to the meaning as a related category. Traditionally theses two semantic phenomena were segregated in researching, and quite often replaced each other in linguistic analysis. It was unfair. The incompatible interdisciplinary interpretations of sense and meaning in philosophy, logic and psychology do not promote further development of researches in semantics. In the logic-philosophical researches the task is solved of semantic segregation of denotationally equivalent signs. There are three variations of such a research method. The first can be called referential (extensional). Here the meaning of a linguistic sign depends on ''the circumstances in the world'' and the verbalized discursive situation, but not on the method of information representation in it. In connection with this idea the sense of linguistic phrases identifies with the denoted objects that function as referents and denotation (S. Kripke, J. Hintikka, D. Lewis, R. Montague, D. Kaplan, M.J. Cresswell). The second variation is based on the conditionality of the sense of proposition by the conditions of its truth/untruth. The third variation interprets the sense of the phrase as information it includes (J.M. Dunn, G. Priest). Its followers distance from the theory of extensional semantics and the semantics of possible worlds basing on this theory. They support the intentional interpretation of sense following G. Frege (E. Voyshvillo, L. Wittgenstein, J. Austin). They interpret sense as the factor of interpersonal communication. Such a point of view means to address to the realities of natural language because in other way the development of the linguistic theory of sense is inconceivable. The article deals with the defence of the interdisciplinary method to understand the sense. This way logic-philosophical and logic-semiotic ideas can be the necessary base to form a cognitive-semantic conception, which is used to discover the complex configuration of interrelation between meaning and sense by deep research of the cognitive and communicative-pragmatic mechanisms of speech activity. This method can prevent some misunderstandings in the practice of linguistic analysis. First of all, it is identification of the sense with the concept. It also is the synonymization of the sense and the meaning. In out opinion, verbalized concept is not identical either to the sense or to the denotation, though it has sense, i.e., it integrates different denotative meanings of ordinary-conceptual, evaluative and descriptive origins. The created cognitive-communicative theory of sense consists of two parts: nominative and communicative. In terms of nominative-oriented semasiology the meaning of the word mark is usually defined by the denotation; the sense is determined by the concept, which is a socially conditioned representation (an ordinary notion) of this denotation. The concept includes information that correlates the linguistic sign with its referent. The perspectives of research of meaning and sense are connected with the cognitive linguistic culture study aiming to enter the hidden depths of value-notional language space.

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