Vectors for Development of Semiotics and Library and Bibliographic Classification

The article is devoted to semiotic knowledge in the structure of the domestic Library and Bibliographic Classification (LBC). Having originated as a sign system in linguistics, semiotics has gone the way of integrating natural science, humanitarian and technical knowledge and has now become the subject of interest of most scientific disciplines. As a science of sign systems, semiotics does not exist outside the influence and relationship with different branches of knowledge.

The universal national classification system presents a full-fledged picture of the state of science, whose interests lie in the plane of various areas of human activity, nature and social reality. It presents the semiotic component of many areas of knowledge, since today signs and sign systems are studied at the “junction” of linguistics with mathematics, cybernetics and other sciences, which contributes to the transformation of semiotics from a purely linguistic science into an interdisciplinary one under the influence of global trends in the integration of scientific research.

In the department “1 Interdisciplinary knowledge” in the Medium tables of the LBC, the section “Semiotics” is also intended for literature of a complex nature, which gives the topic of sign systems of several areas of knowledge and practical activity, which corresponds to the current state of science.

The article tells about the evolution of semiotics within the framework of linguistics, about the role in its formation of domestic and foreign linguistic schools, the transformation of semiotic science into an interdisciplinary field of study, about modern directions of development and representation in the Library and Bibliographic Classification.

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