FROM THE EXCHANGE OF INFORMATION TO THE INTERPRETATION OF MEANINGS

In the study, author attempted elucidation and re-evaluation of approaches to the analysis and understanding of communication, with respect to recent ideas formulated by research workers in this sphere. A brief review of opinions of prominent psychologists and representatives of often contradictory trends suggests that allusions to the significance of language in psychology are permanently present. Author tried to point out and at the same time to interpret the fact that he considers the approaches to the analysis of language and communication determined by logic little effective. He tried to describe this state also in attempts to set up a valid definition of the meaning of words of natural language (the starting-point being searched for in philosophy), to that this definition might be used when establishing the explanatory theory of the phenomena of semantic vagueness, etc. He points out a strong trend of contemporary psychology that analyses the phenomena of natural language and communication with regard to the dominance of interpretation processes and pragmatic aspects of communication. He attempted to set up a question whether the prevailing, mostly positivist research paradigm is able to explain the pursued phenomen to the full. In conclusion, he formulated a couple of - in our opinion - important problems concerning the full-value interpretation of communication acts of natural language.