Zhuravlev I.V.
THE HARD PROBLEM OF COMMUNICATION: CONTINUING THE DIALOGUE WITH E.F. TARASOV
Abstract. The problem of the correlation between individual and social, “private” and “public”, thinking and speech in speech communication is formulated as a hard problem of communication. This problem is discussed in the context of an ongoing dialogue with E.F. Tarasov, who formulated the anti-reductionist theory of speech communication. According to E.F. Tarasov, only the activity-based methodological principle allows us to give an adequate answer to questions about how speech generation, its perception, speech communication and ontogenesis of speech ability occur. This principle requires that communicants be seen as social actors organizing joint activities. The article shows possible contradictions in the interpretation of this principle (emphasis on the individual and emphasis on the social). However, the main thing is that the communicant not only acts with another person, but also with himself in a social way: a person understands himself and controls himself using the same means that he uses to regulate the behavior of the interlocutor. It is concluded that everything “private” is possible only as an internalized “public”. The gap between “private” and “public” arises only because each person has his own unique position in the activity.
Keywords: communication, consciousness, activity, communicant, speech communication, monism, ontology.