Text with sacralization elements as an information phenomenon

Based on the system approach, the article considers the problem of scientific understanding of the phenomenon of information at an active stage of its development. Using the texts, relating to historical discourse (the results of A. Grigoryev’s large-scale source analysis of the Golden Horde documents), we highlight a number of information phenomena that may be of interest to linguistic researchers. The relevance of the study is based on the fact that currently an active comprehension of the concept of information as a complex discursive phenomenon takes place. Therefore, our description of some information implicit characteristics can help actualize and clarify the content of the concept of information. The scientific novelty of this work consists in the identification of a special type of information that is relatively rare in existing information systems within the framework of the scientific discourse. We apply such research methods as definitional and discourse meta-analyses, allowing us to identify and describe various information and communication phenomena. The article clarifies a number of concepts: “information status” is understood as an inherent information system combining “certainty-uncertainty”, which can be perceived by the participants of communication in the paradigm “true-false”. We consider “information” to be something capable of changing the state of communicants within some locally significant (and usually defined by formal features) framework of the communicative interaction process. The increased stability of the information system and its “insensitivity” to significant information can reinforce a specific state of “uncertainty” as well as endow this system with subjective communicative rights. At the same time, the need to reduce information uncertainty in a communication process is not always the dominant factor of this process dynamics. As a result of the study, we can conclude that a text with the elements of sacralization (along with similar systems in a state of “informational immunity”) is a special type of information which does not necessarily require either the information removing uncertainty, or the information creating knowledge. The results of the study may allow us to broaden the conceptual understanding of the text sacralization. Further investigation of the multifaceted phenomenon of information seems warranted.

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