METHODOLOGY OF «OPEN MEANING» IN CONDITIONS OF CULTURAL MULTIPLICITY

Abstract

The article examines the problem of meaning in the conditions of cultural multiplicity, which increasingly determines the nature of contemporary humanities knowledge. It is shown that traditional approaches to interpretation, oriented toward the stabilization of meaning, prove insufficient for describing the processes of the polylogue of cultures, where meaning acquires a processual and open character. In this context, the need to develop a methodology that can take into account the incompleteness, contextuality, and intersubjectivity of meaning-making becomes urgent.

The purpose of the study is to substantiate the methodology of «open meaning» as an approach to the analysis of cultural multiplicity, within which meaning is understood not as a completed result of interpretation, but as a processual structure formed in the conditions of the polylogue of cultures.

The methodology of the research is based on a combination of hermeneutic, dialogical, and deconstructive approaches, which makes it possible to consider meaning as a result of intersubjective interaction while simultaneously revealing its internal instability. The application of the principles of contextuality, dialogicality, and openness to the Other ensures the possibility of analyzing cultural processes without reducing them to a single interpretative model.

Scientific novelty lies in the conceptualization of the methodology of «open meaning» as an independent principle for analyzing cultural multiplicity. In contrast to traditional approaches, meaning is proposed to be understood as an unfinished process that emerges within the space of the polylogue of cultures and resists final fixation. It is substantiated that the openness of meaning is not an accidental characteristic, but an ontological condition of its existence in a multicultural environment.

Conclusions demonstrate that the methodology of open meaning makes it possible to reconsider the role of interpretation, the status of truth, and the position of the researcher in the humanities. Meaning appears as a process of continuous coordination that does not reduce to a single result but retains its significance within the multiplicity of interpretations. Prospects for further research are related to the application of the proposed approach to the analysis of specific cultural practices and processes of intercultural communication.

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