INTERSUBJECTIVE MECHANISMS OF MEANING ACTUALIZATION IN COMMUNICATIVE SPACE

The intersubjective approach to the study of the cultural meanings formation and movement allows moving away from the classical subject-object dichotomy in communication. The result of the use of intersubjective mechanisms is a change in rationality from individual to social one, which allows us to move away from focusing on linguistic means of achieving mutual understanding, traditionally for the postmodern paradigm questioning the formal side of any communicative system and concentrating on its semantic component. At the same time, cultural conditioning of the intersubjective rationality significantly limits the apparent freedom and chaos of the meanings movement, rooting it in similar metatextual positions of a cultural group ensuring the similarity of interpretations. Thus, the operation of intersubjective meanings turns into a probabilistic process based on interpretative inaccuracies and their correction because of communicative feedback, allowing the formation of distributed meaning by consensus. Communicative rationality differs from instrumental, normative and social rationality by its ability to penetrate all three levels of culture – objective, subjective and intersubjective. Communicative action is based on the coordination of actions by participants in the information exchange based on agreed interpretation of the situation. The existence and functioning of such coordination necessitates a philosophical analysis of its foundations, which is the purpose of the article.