Linguistic Philosophy of Cyberspace
Rusudan Makhachashvili1 Ivan Semenist2
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Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University
Borys Grinchenko Kyiv University
[email protected],
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Abstract2
21st century has witnessed the qualitative advances in ontological reality
structuring and approaches to perception and cognition by the human mind. The
study objective is the investigation of the innovative philosophic aspects of
cyberspace through the lenses of the language development processes in the sphere
of innovative computer technologies and digital communication. The study design
is the disclosure of cyberspace as an ontology model and as a linguistic model in
the template of a logosphere. The linguistic philosophy approach to the study of
cyberspace allows to efficiently investigate the empirical manifestation of
cyberspace ontology (space and time dimensions), the generic categories and
dimensions of cyber-epistemology, to denote existential anthropocentric character of
cyberspace. Philosophical foundations of the study of cyberspace as an integrated
macro-and micro-entity are determined by the substantive features of inovative
logosphere as a macrostructure and by the phenomenological characteristics and
properties of substrate of linguistic units of innovative cyberspace logosphere.
Keywords: Cyberspace, Linguistic Philosophy, Innovative Logosphere of
Cyberspace, Digital Ontology
1. Introduction
At the turn of the XX-XXI centuries, as an essential product of civilization,
computer reality has been gradually separated into an independent existential
whole, within which digital media serve not only as a means of transmitting
information or interaction, but fulfill their own world-building, sensebuilding and, consequently, logo-generative potential (Gelernter, 1998),
(Price, 2001). Cyberspace, henceforth, is an object of study of a wide range
of academic branches – philosophy of modern humanities, psychology,
sociology, cultural studies, etc.
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Rusudan Makhachashvili (contact author),
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Peer-editor: Nataliia Lazebna, Ph.D., Associate Professor, Department of Theory and Practice of Translation,
Zaporizhzhia National Polytechnic University, Ukraine
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By virtue of objective historical and geopolitical context (the cybernetization,
globalization, informatization of society, the Americanization of global
culture – (Heim, 1993), (Hillis, 1999), (Tapscott, 2008) at the turn of the
millenium modern English, is a priority communicative medium of primary
speech coding, speech and meta-language (terminology) representation of
cyberspace elements and structures mapping (Crystal, 2001), (Quinion,
2003), (Shneiderman, 2002). Methodological perspectives of the modern
view of natural language activity in the area of advanced technologies,
include a macro-factor of the vocabulary functional updates
(Makhachashvili, 2020), (Lazebna, 2021), (Makhachashvili et al, 2021), a
cognitive structure, a segment of supranational worldview, a discursive
digital communicative medium (Davis, 2001), (Schrijver, 2010), that gets
extrapolated onto computer mediated discourse and terminology of European
and Oriental languages alike.
Conditions for the development of modern globalized civilization determine
the expansion and refinement of the paradigm of views on the theoretical
principles of determining the groundwork and characteristics of the
consolidation of the world order, its perception in culture, collective social
consciousness and natural language.
Cyberspace stands as an integral environment, demanding new cognition and
perception ways via complex philosophic, cultural, social, linguistic
approaches, providing unlimited opportunities for human intellect, language
development and research.
Given the conceptual system of identification of onto-mental and linguomental complex formations to identify constructs of reality, cyberspace and
its innovative linguistic shell can be located in the coordinates of such
paradigms:
1) philosophy - as a particular type of substance – material and ideal
reality in the multitude of its forms; a meta-negentropy (the term after
Nagib Callaos) (Callaos, 2020);
2) anthropology – as an environment for actualization of posthumanistic forms of anthropogenesis;
3) psychology – as psychosomatic and emotional plane of a
personality functioning;
4) sociology – as a system of multi-tiered and multi-directional social
and communicative relations.
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The inquiry objective is the investigation of the innovative linguophilosophic
aspects of the language development processes in the sphere of new computer
technologies.
Linguophilosophic approach to the study of language innovations in
cyberspace allows to efficiently investigate lingual manifestation of
cyberspace ontology (namely space and time dimensions), to closely study
the generic categories and dimensions of cyberanthroposphere, to denote its
existential anthropocentric character. The study adopts the synthetic
definition of the ‘philosophic’ notion which incorporates ontological,
gnoseological and anthropological parametres.
Linguistic philosophy of cyberspace is construed in the study through
deterministic phenomenological correlation of innovative language of digital
technologies with:
1) constructive elements of the substance - space, time, phenomenon,
essence;
2) constructive elements of knowledge / cognition - information,
episteme, concept, concept;
3) constructive elements of human consciousness - identification,
identity, individuality.
The inquiry methodology is based upon the hypothesis of the cyberspacerelated language terminological nature. The dual systematization character of
terminology determined the analysis of both linguistic and external
(ontological, anthropological, cognitive, social) paradigmatic parameters of
cybervocabulary. Due to its polydimensional nature the term acquires the
unique, philosophic status (the entity of Being and Language respectively).
The cyber-term as a specific intralingual and extralingual phenomenon turns
out to be the means of perception and comprehension to a degree as well as
the ontological actualization and categorization source of the modern
cyberspace and technosphere. The introduced approach to defining the
cyberterm presents a key to comprehending the underlying mechanisms of
linguistic actualization, perception and processing of cyberspace.
The study of groundwork principles of universality and philosophic
interdisciplinary of natural language development in cyberspace is a parcel
of the framework project (Makhachashvili, Semenist, 2021) TRANSITION:
Transformation, Network, Society and Education.
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2. Findings
2.1. Cyberspace as a Philosophic Ontology
Theoretical issues of holistic, multidimensional language modeling and the
reality of its individual areas (one of which within the framework of the
linguistic culture at the beginning of the XXI century is the area of advanced
computer technology) determined the interaction of a number of concepts that
consistently connect ontological system features of sophisticated reality
objects, attribute their reception and interpretation (in the field of individual
and collective mind), implementation, consolidation and relay the results of
the interaction of these features. In this regard, a fundamental dimension of
being (Aristotle, 2014) is defined as a heterogeneous hyperonymic concept
that can summarize the polydimensional signs of world order: A world that
exists; world that is not subject to direct reception (Gachev, 1993), (Kasavin,
1990), but is in reality; The imaginary, unrealistic world (for example, the
idea of perfect, mythological images (Kireev, 2008); A reality that exists
objectively, independently of human consciousness (nature, objective laws of
world order (Chanyshev, 1990); A common mode of existence of human
society, culture and civilization.
Thus, we can see that within the paradigm of Western traditions, the
foundation of theoretical and conceptual perspective parameterization
holistic reality modeling is the synthesis and anthropometric ontological
principles. Plane integration of aforementioned principles can be considered
the system of psycho-mental epistemic concepts that are part of the semantic
field of the term "world view" and its multi-substrat and hierarchically
heterogeneous derivatives.
That way, world-view is identified as a holistic set of philosophical
knowledge of the world (Novikova et al, 2001), (Rosch, 1978), which formed
during the evaluation results of reality by the knowledge subject. The subjects
or bearers of the world picture are individuals and social or professional
groups, and ethnic or religious communities. The subject forms a picture of
the world based on their own feelings, perceptions, ideas, forms of thought
and consciousness. Accordingly, the picture of the world as a result of
accumulation of subjective experience, knowledge of world order, based on
feelings, beliefs, perceptions and thinking of the individual and the human
community, dictates rules of behavior, meaning system (Knight, 1994), Spet,
2001), which affect the formation and generalization of concepts. Thus, it is
determined that mapping framework in the system of modern humanities
determines the definition of such leading features of this concept:
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Systemic images (and links between them);
Visual representations of the world and human place in it, information
about the relationship between a human and reality (human and nature,
human and society, human and human, human and technology);
Attitudes of people, and their beliefs, ideals, principles, and
knowledge of, meanings and spiritual guidance.
Any significant changes in worldview entail changes in a complex system of
these elements.
The outlook as a consecutive and causative result of the interaction and
interpenetration signs of previous constructs and a collective system of ideas
about general categories of space, time and movement. According to
researchers, the basic elements - the so-called "frame picture of the world"
(Talmy, 2000) - is a set of first principles or considerations of fundamental
assumptions about reality substant parameters and its parts. They cannot be
realized by human mind, but are embedded in the picture of the world,
because it is necessary to interpret any situation in life, to determine the
meaning and to assess what is happening. Some of them, such as motion,
causality, identity, time and space may be understood as a priori within the
realm of human experience. According to the correspondence principle there
are distinguished the following types of reality mapping: The real world - this
is an objective physical reality (Ricoeur, 1981); Illusory picture of the world
(the term by Erich Fromm (Fromm, 2013) – the accumulation of distorted,
unstructured information in the individual and collective consciousness.
The world view, as a consolidated, multi-dimensional, quasi-Gnostic model
of world-built features the following characteristics: It defines the specific
mode of perception and interpretation of events and phenomena; It is the
foundation of worldview, based on which people act in the world; It has
historically conditioned properties, implying constant dynamic changes of all
its subjects’ world view.
Language as a particular way of understanding and mapping of reality is
partly universal, partly nationally specific (Pigalev, 2001). Hence, linguistic
picture of the world is as a result of a certain way of reflection of reality in
the mind through the lens of language and national, differential historical and
cultural features of its speakers.
Each language reflects a natural way of holistic perception (Peirce, 2001),
(Roelleke, 2013) and the organization (conceptualization) of the world. The
views expressed therein mentioned consist of a single frame of varying
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degrees of abstraction, which is extrapolated, as mandatory, in individual and
collective consciousness of native speakers. Thus, linguistic picture of the
world as a set of ideas about the world is a retrospectively and prospectively
(based on principles of thinking historicism) arranged integral image of the
world, shaped by all parties involved in human mental activity. Language
world is a historically constituted communal knowledge, displayed in the
language set of ideas about the world is a certain way of conceptualizing
reality reflected through the prism of cultural and national characteristics
inherent in a particular language community; an interpretation of the world
according to national conceptual and structural canons reflection of reality in
the minds of a group, which are absorbed by a person in the process of
socialization. In this context, the concept of world modeling qualifies as:
Universal,
Orderly,
Sustainable,
Systematic.
While the language model of the world is:
Fragmented,
Mobile,
Isomorphic to the dynamics of the environment.
Both types of world modeling are realms of existence and functioning of
linguistic units in the minds of the media and help in the reproduction of a
coherent picture of the world.
It should be noted that the conditions of modern globalized civilization
determine the expansion and refinement of paradigm views on theoretical
premises of identifying the principles and characteristics of the consolidation
of world order and its perception in the culture, collective social
consciousness and natural language. Thus, the intellectualization of modern
global culture defines a new approach to understanding the processes of the
parallel development of human activity and cognitive (intellectual)
experience.
The aforementioned ties into the emergence and methodological
development of the concept of "noosphere". Noosphere is defined as the
current stage of development of the biosphere, associated with the
development of humanity, and is interpreted as a part of the planet and circaplanetary space with traces of human activity.
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According to the theory of V. Vernadsky, the noosphere is the third in a
sequence of major phases of the Earth as the formation of the geosphere
(inanimate) and the biosphere (wildlife). Just as the biosphere is formed by
the interaction of all organisms on Earth, the noosphere is composed by all
minds interacting. Noosphere is identified as the unity of "nature" and culture
(in the broadest interpretation of the latter involving technosphere as a
component of cultural space (Vernadsky, 1991), especially from the moment
when the spiritual culture reaches (by force of impact on the biosphere and
geosphere) power of a certain 'geological force.
Given the definite unity of nature and culture (in their interaction) there are
two stages determined in the development of the noosphere:
1) noosphere stage in its development, in the process of natural
development, since the emergence of humans (Smolin, 2004);
2) noosphere that is consciously improving joint efforts of people in
the interests of humanity as a whole and each individual separately
(Davis, 2001), (Tapscott, 2008).
The digital dimension of linguistic interoperability of reality stems from its
cognitive structure and content of noosphere components:
ANTHROPOSPHERE - a set of people, their activities and
achievements;
SOCIOSPHERE - a set of social factors characteristic of society
development and its interaction with nature;
TECHNOSPHERE - a set of artificial objects created by man, and
natural objects, altered as a result of human activity.
Given the context outlined transformation of initial position awareness of the
principles and foundations of the universe integrated modeling, we note that
at the turn of the XXI century modern cyberspace as part of the technosphere
(and respectively - the noosphere) takes up more space in the public
consciousness and functional activity of mankind. As an integral product of
civilization, Digital reality (Cyberspace) is gradually separated into
independent existential whole. Within its limits the digital media serve not
only as a means of transmitting information or interaction, but manifest their
own world-building, sense-building, and, consequently, linguogenerative
potential.
Based on the conceptual identification system of onto-mental and linguisticmental complex structures to determine reality constructs, Cyberspace and its
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innovative linguistic casing can be located within the set of the following
philosophic ontological coordinates: A specific type of substance - material
and ideal reality united in all forms of development – being (Khoruzhy,
1997); Implementation environment for "post-humanistic" trends of
anthropogenesis (Smolin, 2004); A segment of the noosphere (the
technosphere); A system of hierarchal social relations (Rheingold, 1999) –
sociosphere; A psychosomatic and emotional plane, the sphere of spiritual
experience (Shneiderman, 2002); A worldview, semiotic model of the world.
Cyberspace, thus, is defined as a complex, multidimensional sphere of
synthesis of reality, human experience and activity mediated by the digital
and information technologies, a component of the technosphere of human
existence.
2.2. Cyberspace as a Logosphere
The hypothesis of the study is that the typological characteristics of
innovative logosphere of cyberspace as a macro-object of a
phenomenological investigation determine the specificity of static
configuration and dynamic interaction of formal and substantive constituents
of its microstructure.
The philosophic universality of natural language in cyberspace is accessed
through is the concept of the logosphere, synthetically perceived as:
1) the plurality of language units, which are conditionally exhaustive
phenomenological realizations of abstract and empirical elements of
different spheres of life (Bakhtin, 1979), (CD, 2020), (Kranz, 1996);
2) the zone of integration of thought, speech, and experience
continuums of cultures (Barthes, 1968), (Losev, 1993);
3) the plurality of culturally relevant universal meanings and signs –
semiosphere (Lotman, 2000);
4) a plurality of transcendent spiritual meanings – pneumatosphere
(Florensky, 1988).
The logocentric approach to integrative research directions, mechanisms, and
ways of Cyberspace structuring provides a generalized in-depth
understanding of the phenomenological nature of meta-language encoding
processes, categorization, mental mapping, meta-language reference,
significative correlation, respectively.
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Phenomenological lense (Oke, 2009) to the study of innovations in the
cyberspace allows to efficiently investigate manifestation of cyberspace
integrated ontology, to closely study the dimensions of cyberberspace as an
outlook both generic and critical, to expose the phenomenological origin and
upstream direction of cyberspace dynamics as a comprehensive linguistic and
communicative structure.
Parameterization principles of a concept of "logos" in the paradigm of the
humanities in general, linguophilosophy, and linguistics - in particular, allow
to identify the features of logosphere as a complex object system pertaining
the following parameters: Ubiquity (inclusiveness); Ontocentricity;
Integrativity; Automorphism; Normativity; Lingual substantiality;
Phenomenology of thesaurus units; Information-capacity; Referential and
semiotic isomorphism of the referent and meaning.
Note that through the fragmented set of qualitative features, logosphere of
cyberspace is tangent to the concepts of complex system simulators of
linguistic-mental outlook, such as: Model of the world / world view
(inclusive, integrative, self-identity); Language picture of the world
(phenomenology of linguistic constituents - the ability to summarize and
signify objects of reality); Noosphere (onthotsentrism, info-capacity).
For the listed set of features the integral notion of logosphere of cyberspace
stands as a semantic synthesis of these concepts (see Figure 1):
• NOOSPHERE
• WORLD
MODEL /
WORLDVIEW
ubiquity,
integrativity,
automorphism
phenomenology
of linguistic
units
• SEMIOTIC
WORLDVIEW
ontocentricity,
information
capacity
LOGOSPHERE
FEATURES
DIFFERENTIAL
AREA
Figure 1: Logosphere of Cyberspace Integral and Differential Features
Model
The framework innovation of cyberspace logosphere (CSL) of cyberspace (a
multidimensional, complex, dynamic system) is the most comprehensive
quantitative and qualitative terms of language representation of the linguistic
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actualization of being, determined by a number of qualifying conditions of
its emergence, existence and development, including:
1) exhaustive synchronization process of the object,
phenomenological and anthropological field of computer being and
development processes of the ICT meta-language;
2) exhaustive output of parameterization isomorphism of ontological
(substance phenomenological), anthropic and digitized structures of
reality;
3) flexibility, adaptability and dynamic potential of the vocabulary of
the modern languages (heavily influenced by English hegemony) in
correlation with the ICT sphere (that is fulfilled, in particular through
info-capacity, sign hybridization, the evolution of the basic
ontological and functional features of neologisms in relevant areas).
In view of the foregoing, the innovative cyberspace logosphere (ICSL) is
defined as: a) a syncretic, consolidated within its semantic scope, plurality of
verbal units that are the asymptotically (i.e. in unlimited approximation)
exhaustive embodiments of substantive and factual elements of modern
computer being; b) as a vertically integrated at the macro and micro levels
plurality of ICT thesaurus, its typological specificity are relatively exhaustive
phenomenological correlates of multi-substrat elements of computer being.
Given the features of logosphere as specific linguistic-onthological,
phenomenological-linguistic and a linguistic-semiotic object, it is possible to
distinguish the following typological characteristics of ICSL:
A) The ability to conditionally complete phenomenological realization
of substantive identity of the cyberspace in significative characteristics of
verbal units that constitute the relevant innovative logosphere (Figure 2). The
following typological characteristics of ICL are to be phenomenologized,
particularly at the level of the external form of discrete ICSL units. For
example, paronymic unit elements of affixation paradigm based on formant
dot- one that pertains to the Internet: dot-biz - legal body that implements its
activities through Internet, dot-con - offender that performs fraud (con)
through Internet (in these units is dot- verbal manifestation of a graphic point
- [.] - as semiotic marker recording Interent protocol address). A meta-term
innovation 404 – to be offline for a long while (404 – a semiotic
representation of protocol error on the results of an unsuccessful search
Internet page). On the internal form level of discrete ICL units: sextuple-u –
a metaphtonymic conventional transcoding of an Internet protocol address:
www (where: three-double-u - initial transcoding → 3x2-u =-u 6 – a
metaphtonymic correlate); 888 in Japanese (pronounced as ぱちぱちぱち,
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the sound of snapping or clapping) – an online communication formula.Due
to a combination of external and internal form configurations of discrete units
ICL: for example, an innovation paradigm Web 2.0/Web.3.0/Web 4.0 - the
newest visual and technological configuration of Internet space where the
Web - Internet 2.0 (N.0) is an analogical representation of meaningful
semiotic element "a new (improved) version" (operating system, software,
software, etc.).
Figure 2: Substantive Identity Of The Cyberspace In The Significate
B) Structural density volume, uniformity and conditional
completeness of innovative codification of multi-substrat configuration of
Cyberspace Logosphere.
Cosequently, the innovative cyberspace logosphere (ICSL) is defined as a
vertically integrated at the macro and micro levels plurality of innovations
of natural languages, which in its typological specificity are a relatively
exhaustive phenomenological correlates of the multi-substrat elements of
cyberspace (Figure 3):
Time, Space, Substance, Essence, Phenomenon
Information, Episteme, Notion, Concept
Lingual Innovation
of CYBERSPACE
ICSL
Identification, Identity, Individuality, Sociality
Figure 3: Macrostructural Integativity of Cyberspace Logosphere
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From the above system of parametric characteristics of innovative cyberspace
logosphere (ICSL) macrostructure it is evident that the principle of
hierarchical abstraction correlation powers its integrative macrostructure
within the conceptual dyad substance :: substrate. In this case, the substance
is identified as an objective reality in terms of the internal unity of all forms
of its manifestation and self-development (Roelleke, 2013), (Spet, 2001). The
term "substrate" in turn, denotes the simplest structure or formation
(Mamardashvili et al, 1997), which remains stable, unchanged under any
transformation of the object and determines its specific properties.
Thus, macrostructure of ICSL is defined within this study as comprehensive
language body of neologisms in the systemic of reference semantic unity in
correlation with substantive (ontological, epistemic, anthropological)
measurements and computer being elements of comprehensive, innovative
super-dense verbalization which determines the phenomenological
originality of logosphere.
The typological characteristics of logosphere lead to the integrativity of
macrostructure of innovative cyberspace logosphere, defined by
phenomenological (referential, nominative, significative) correlation of its
discrete elements: 1) structural elements of being - space, time, substance,
phenomenon, essence (for example: a phenomenological correlation category
of substance - wikiality (Telescope seam Wiki (peadia) + (re) ality) conditional subtype of computer being modeled exclusively by collective
cognitive activities of its subjects); 2) structural elements of knowledge /
cognition – information, episteme, notion, concept (for example: a
phenomenological correlation category episteme - information demise - the
destruction of storage systems and data; data fast, data spill - communicative
space data); 3) structural elements of the human mind / consciousness identification, identity, individuality, sociality (for example, a number of new
units that are the subject of "self" categories through various mechanisms of
substantivizing and semantic reference to the category "I" - meformer
(telescopic fusion of me + (in) former) - a person who proclaims themselves
in social networks, egosurfing (cf. in Japanese エゴサーチ- egosearch) - to
search personal information Wide Web, self-tracker - tracking information
about their identity in different loci of computer being.
The foundations of the microstructure of innovative cyberspace logosphere
are comprised of generally newly created units of meta-language of digital
communication, as confirmed by the sample empirical material of this study,
that appear the chronologically primary codifies and relatively exhaustive
phenomenological correlates of total number of innovative elements, objects,
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events and the latest structures of cyberspace in varying degrees of
abstraction.
The dynamics of innovative cyberspace logosphere is defined as ways,
directions and appropriate language implementation mechanisms of
qualitative changes in the content area of the projection of the conceptual
nucleus of the referred innovative logosphere.
The structure of the content of the innovative cyber-term, as a constituent of
ICSL, is distributed across the several tiers of abstraction, consistent with the
through-vertical ratio of philosophical categories of "essence” →
“phenomenon": 1) - onthological denotatum (OD) - a set of meaningful
elements of exhaustive degree of substance and epistemic abstraction
(phenomenalogization attributes, parameters and properties of elements
multi-substrat cyberspace) in the structure of the meaning of innovative
cyber-term → 2) - conceptual denotatum (CD) - a set of meaningful elements
of median level of abstraction, mediated by anthropogenic (subjective and
collective) cognitive experience of speakers in the area of operation and use
of computer technology, the projection area of conceptual ICSL nucleus →
3) - lingual denotatum (LD) - semantics of innovative cyber-term.
The degree of abstraction of these tiers structure is correlated with the degree
of abstraction of cyberspace parametric features. Tier (1) "ontological
denotatum" corresponds to the parametric feature "existential dimension",
tier (2) "conceptual denotatum" - parametric feature "concept" and the
parametric feature "notion", stage (3) "lingual denotatum" - parametric
feature of a "language unit"(Figure 4):
Figure 4: Tiered Microstructure of the Cyber-logos
The highest index of representativeness within content the innovative
cyberspace logosphere is determined to be the following ontological elements
combination: |SUBSTANCE TYPE: CYBERSPACE|, |SUBSTANTIVE
QUALITY: TECHNOGENESIS|, |SUBSTANTIVE DURATION: SPACE|,
|SUBSTANT AFFILIATION: OBJECT OF CYBERSPACE|, |SUBSTANT
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AFFILIATION:
SUBJECT
OF
CYBERSPACE|,
|SUBSTANT
AFFILIATION:
SIMULACRUM
OF
CYBERSPACE|,
|CYBERMORPHISM|.
3. Conclusions
The study findings make it possible to distinguish the following substantial
characteristics of the linguistic sphere of cyberspace: 1) ability to synthesize
features of ontological objects and phenomena and innovative verbal units,
respectively; 2) ability for asymptotic (extremely close to exhaustive)
embodiment of substantive and factual elements of cyberspace at the level of
semiotic substance as a whole, and at the level of substantial characteristics
of discrete verbal units; 3) semiotic density of embodiment of substantive and
factual elements of cyberspace in the ontological, epistemological and
anthropological planes.
Philosophical foundations of the study of innovative cyberspace logosphere
(ICSL) as an integrated macro-and micro-entity are determined: 1) by the
substantive definite features of logosphere as a macrostructure (including
equifinality - ability to achieve states that do not depend on the initial
conditions and specific parameters that are specific to innovative cyberspace
logosphere; teleology - gnostic ability of innovative cyberspace logosphere
to achieve the projected state); 2) by the phenomenological characteristics
and properties of substrate microstructure of linguistic units of innovative
cyberspace logosphere.
The integration of the macro-level of the innovative cyberspace logosphere
is coordinated by the spectrum of its specific characteristics and is realized,
first, due to the significant coordination of elements of internal and external
form of this logosphere and signs of substantive and substrate originality of
cyberspace as a whole; secondly, due to the phenomenological correlation of
the elements of the internal and external form of the innovative cyberspace
logosphere and various types of structural elements of the cyberspace
(ontological, epistemic and anthropological respectively), exhaustive, superdense innovative verbalization of which determines the differential
specificity of the studied logosphere.
The microstructure of innovative cyberspace logosphere is formed by the
generality of discrete language units of the corresponding reference affiliation
in the set of their formative and semantic features. The integration of the
innovative cyberspace logosphere is ensured by the configurative
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isomorphism of taxonymic (ontological, epistemic, anthropological) and
operational mechanisms of integration of the macrostructure of cyberspace
and taxonymic and operational mechanisms of integration of its external
(formative) microstructure.
Qualitative and quantitative characteristics, features and properties of the
integrative structure of the innovative cyberspace logosphere are informed by
its dynamics on the macro and micro levels. The dynamics of the innovative
cyberspace logosphere is defined as a qualifier of paths, directions and
corresponding linguistic and ontological mechanisms of realization of
qualitative semantic changes in the integrative zone of vertical contraction
(cumulation) or divergence (dissipation) of multisubstrate ontological
elements. The operators of the processes of phenomenological mobility of
extensional elements of cyberspace are transformations of semiotic elements
(discrete conceptual features and their combinations), which constitute a zone
of accumulation of information, mediated by individual and collective
cognitive experience in the functioning of cyberspace.
4. Acknowledgements
The paper has been reviewed by Nataliia Lazebna, Ph.D., Associate
Professor, Department of Theory and Practice of Translation, Zaporizhzhia
National Polytechnic University, Ukraine. Empirical findings and analysis
procedures have been conducted under the auspices of Integrated Research
framework of Romance Languages and Typology Chair of Borys Grinchenko
Kyiv University European languages and literatures development in crosscommunication context (0116 U 006607) and Integrated Research framework
of Oriental Languages and Translation Chair of Borys Grinchenko Kyiv
University Oriental Studies development in the framework of Higher
Education Internationalization (0116 U 007073).
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