Language of signs and symbols. A review of the text and analysis of the context

Subject of the article: communication systems of man and humanity in culture and civilization. Object of the article: symbolic systems of nonverbal communication, man and humanity in culture and civilization. The purpose of the work: structuring the basic concepts in the sign-symbolic systems of culture, which perform the functions of rituals, generalization of the results. Methodology of work: review, analysis, and synthesis. The social and biological in the symbol-producing consciousness of man. The results of the work: justification for verbal and non-verbal communication systems of man and mankind in culture. Human language as the "grandiose code of culture" of all mankind. The field of application of the results: scientific, cultural and intercultural communication of man and humanity. Conclusion. The symbolic language of culture rituals in the unity of myth, sign and symbol, as the original symbol, refers to the designation of a stable circle of representations in human life, and also performs integrating and differentiating functions. The cultural-historical and material contexts of mankind are inherited by the individual, as created by ancestors in the past, and realized in the life of the present. At the same time, it is transmitted to descendants in the future through various symbols of culture, creating a "semiosphere". Material objects of cultural activity and arrangement of man in the biosphere Express his external appeals (signs and symbols) and meanings (semantics), which are conventional in human society. Well-known signs and symbols of state attributes of power, coats of arms of countries and cities, guilloche ornament on securities, money and documents, all these are cultural and historical "texts" of symbolic messages through the style of their time, the faces of art in General, as well as the decorative and applied sphere of culture that surrounds a person in life. The very need to develop stable long-term means of communication was the basis and prerequisite for the emergence of the sign in the cultural activity of man, followed by its symbolization against the background of deepening his natural skills and "manual labor". The oldest graphic image, as a projection of the syncretic complex since non-literate cultures, is identical to the counting-calendar characters of subsequent ages, for example the alternation of multiplicity odd and even numbers (female and male symbols), formally corresponds to the simplest types of mathematical structures that, in fact, due to the emergence of scientific knowledge about the world. The symbolic "microcosm" of man is represented and preserved by the purely anthropological, information and technological potential of the" macrocosm " of mankind. The sign-symbolic language encodes the conventional arrangement of man in the cultural space from the primitive times. "Psychological compulsion" of cultural activity of Homo sapiens in a sign, a symbol of cultural and historical context, reports on a role of the person in the universe. The mythological nature of the unconscious is a single continuum of conventionally conditioned, anthropologically significant information in the consciousness of each person, deciphering the purpose of life and living matter on earth. The consciousness of modern man reflects the phylogeny of the entire cultural and biological species Homo sapiens, and are realized in the picture of the world of a particular individual in his ontogenesis. The spheres of origin and preservation of the mythological picture of the human world remain: culture, art, folklore, ritual forms of cultural and historical myth-making, generating through human consciousness, anthropological existential essence of the unity of myth, sign and symbol in the sign-symbolic language of culture rituals as signs and symbols of modern civilization .