Cognitive space dichotomy: on correlation of “Knowledge” and “Information” notions

Abstract

The article analyses the fundamental problem of knowledge and information correlation with the use of cognitive linguistics and technological information theory methods. The study highlights the transformation processes of information- knowledge continuum, which is viewed as a unified cognition and communication space. Methodologically, the study specifies a sequence of operations to determine the ways of verbalizing elements of mental structures used in information production: 1) analysis of subject-action reflection; 2) identification of the ways some notion is formed; 3) analysis of the ways the components are expressed in language structures. In the same way, it concerns the reverse process of information decoding: 1) sense decoding; 2) specification of elements, which are relevant for the addressee; 3) analysis of efficient means for the production of new knowledge. Information and knowledge reveal a cyclic correlation of subject-related content (subject) and process hermeneutic phenomenon (method). The analysis of cognitive processes of knowledge verbalization and its transition to the information domain suggests different types of knowledge (process-empirical and cognitive-communicative) and the types of information, which correlate with them (primary and secondary). The dialectic correlation of mental knowledge structures and verbal information flow is defined in cognitive linguistics terms as a continuous reflexive transformation of invariant structure-patterns into conventional signs and decoding of these signs in line with personal models. The main ways of information and knowledge cross transformations are the cognitive processes of subjectivation and objectivation.

Keywords

• information
• knowledge
• objective and reflexive reality
• cognition
• verbalization
• cognitive mechanisms