NEW APPROACHES TO THE JUSTIFICATION OF WRITING ORIGIN

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the evolution of writing from the perspective of the results of the latest research in historical, philosophical, linguistic research paradigms. This work highlights the key ways of formation and development of written language as a sign system. The cyclical development of the letter from the icons, ideograms and phonograms character is considered as a process of simplification of the human mind, the human internal degradation. The need to store knowledge in written sources demonstrates not the progress of mankind, and its degradation. Even geniuses of science know that ideas are born not on paper but in creative thinking. Numerous studies in the field of cognitive science - the science of thinking - show that people think in symbols rather than words.

The primary function of writing was intended to express the spirit gained experience and knowledge of the divine order of the universe. That is why the written language should be the evolution and development of the spiritual world of the individual and humanity. However, each individual phase of development simplified writing. The small icons transmit messages, and simple stories. So pictographic writing fixes images of perception and representation. Ideographic writing becomes a kind of scheme, devoid completeness image and imagery. In this scheme only a few elements remain fixed object. External image gradually falls out of the sign and with it the loss of imagery leads to change the function of writing. Writing began to record sounds. So Phonographic writing began to transmit only words in phonetic and grammatical forms.

Cyclic writing development occurs in a spiral form. From the picture complete, image of the world symbolic paintings - icons, the source of which is the mental human space from ideograms - a sign that transfers more compressed information, a certain idea of abstract or symbolic nature, over time, to the ideograms, which usually consists of simple elements that are endowed with their own values. The last stage is the Phonographic writing, basic functional load which is fixing the sound structure of language. So sign language loses figurative representation of reality.

It is because of the loss of image, the ability to see and transmit information integrity we allowed ourselves to assume that such a development of the sign is due to the degradation of human evolution in general.