Meaning as a Mechanism for Senses Transformation and Discourse Sense Space Structuring

Meaning is described as an evolving (dynamic) system; which determines the novelty of the study. The study gives a holistic analysis of significant language issue: meaning and sense. Formation of sense is a complex multifaceted process based on meanings transformation. The object is meanings of different types; as the main ones, the author distinguishes semantic, semanticsyntactic, logical-semantic and pragmatic meanings. The objective is to describe core features of the types and specify their role in senses creation and structuring the coherent discourse sense space. The principal research methods are pragmasemantic and discourse analyses; they promote revealing the mechanisms of formation of discursive meanings and senses, establishing the correlation between multilevel meanings and the created pragmatic effect, unveiling the potential of linguistic means used to form meanings and senses. This determines the relevance of the study, since the meanings system is presented from the functional perspective for constructing the discourse sense space. The main results of the study are as follows. Semantics sets the initial parameters of meanings, which in the process of contextual actualization are supplemented by syntactic and logical parameters. We see formation of semantic-syntactic meaning and its transformation into the logical-semantic one. Further, under the influence of contextual and extralinguistic factors, it increments additional pragmatic meanings which convert to discursive senses. The certain pragmasemantic effect is created. The author draws the conclusions that complex hierarchical transformation of multilevel meanings leads to senses hybridization, complication of discourse relations and links, and structuring its integral sense space.