Language as the Instrument of Cognition
This article focuses on the specifics of the verbal language of human communication. The author considers the language as a semiotic (sign) system that stores and transmits information. Sign-informational and social nature of language makes it one of the most important tools of cognition. The meaning of words assumes in this sense a historically fixed function of the means of knowledge, reflecting the experience of a particular community of people speaking the same language. The author also raises the question of the role of scientific communication mediated by word.