Grammatization as a philosophical-theoretical approach to the study of language and speech of electronic mass media

Abstract

The author would like to remove the contradictions between the heterogeneity of elements of communication in the Internet field. The research is supported by RSF, 16-18-02032, devoted to mental-language transformations in the aspect of personal identity. The author investigates the philosophical and theoretical approaches to the consideration of natural language in the categories of occasional originality, pragma-instrumentality, transformability and finiteness associated with the development of communication technologies. The purpose of the article is to analyze the concepts of researchers related to the civilization view at language and speech from the point of view of applied importance for modern media linguistics. The article presents the main aspects of the analysis of the communication realities of electronic mass media from the position of grammatization (the way to consider any forms of languages, including symbolic and metaphoric ones, as a combination of the set of elements and set of conventions. The author chooses as a material two main substantive-thematic directions of scientific research: (1) the concept of finality (exhaustion) of language and (2) concepts, connected with the philosophy of technology. At the intersection of these domains, the possibility of interpreting modern communication in the categories of technical shift leading to the change of the basic medium (verbality) is revealed. This shift may take hundreds of years, but fixing the process of disappearing one of the most universal technologies in the history of mankind (language) is a task of media linguistics exploring the crossroads of technical and linguistic domains. The author supposes that the description of these transit forms of communication field opens new perspectives in front of researchers of the communication field.