«Live word» and the interfacial theory of word meaning

The dual ontology of a live word meaning helps people to achieve mutual understanding by relying on shared knowledge. The interfacial theory of word meaning takes into consideration two directions of live word meaning interfacial functioning: a) as an interface between man an society; b) as an interface between socially accepted word meaning and the multimodal personal world image existing in the form of an enormous net of connections between various products of verbal and nonverbal experience.