Word Functioning in Communication Process

Although many linguists wrote about a psychic nature of the sign, in contemporary studies various schemes and descriptions of communicative processes continue virtually without human consciousness participation. However, the sign emerges, lives and dies on the quiet of individual consciousness beyond the immediate material connection with word forms, let alone the subject that it substitutes. Its life is short – it flashes for that short moment when thoughts about the object and the selected word form intersect and merge in the focus of active consciousness. The sign is an act and a unit of consciousness and does not leave the limits of consciousness.