Lukin V.A.
SEMIOTICS OF PRODUCTIVE CONFLICT IN EDUCATIONAL AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNICATION
The article analyzes the semiotic aspects of the problem task in connection with the peculiarities of educational communication and scientific communication. The author’s goal is to consider educational communication as a conflict between conflicts − productive conflict vs. destructive conflict. The learning task is regarded as the main means for maintaining a positive conflict and blocking a destructive conflict. The paper contains examples of problem tasks (with and without solutions) that the author use when reading the course “Semiotics of the text”. It offers analysis and description of semantics, syntactics and pragmatics of the learning task as text. Based on the role of problems and productive conflicts in science and education, the author argues the erroneous ness conventional wisdom about the text as any sign or any natural linguage message.
Keywords: educational communication, scientific communication, productive conflict, destructive conflict, learning task, semiotic analysis.