PUNCTUATION: FUNCTION AND ANTHROPOCENTRISM

Abstract

The article focuses on the fact that the purpose of linguistics in the anthropocentric paradigm is to study and identify the manifestation of the features of the worldview of a language subject as a semiotic system at all levels of language. These areas have made great changes in general linguistics: the main values in linguistics have changed, the range of research has expanded including punctuation. In order for communication to be successful, the narrator and the recipient should not only use the same communication tools, but also understand the meaning of this tool. The reader who knows how to correctly understand the punctuation marks, along with understanding the text, gets aesthetic pleasure from it. The reader, who is deeply versed in the author›s punctuation, clearly notices what the writer wants to say. Consequently, the function of punctuation and the nature of anthropocentrism should now be redefined.