Humanities Studios: Pedagogy, Psychology, Philosophy

The relevance of this study is determined by the need to reconsider meaning within the context of contemporary communication, where it is often reduced either to subjective construction or to psychological states. The aim of the article was to conceptualise meaning as an event of response arising within the space of addressivity between the Self, the Other and the reality being addressed. Such a perspective makes it possible to regard meaning not as a static content or the outcome of interpretation, but as a dynamic process of encounter in which address and response constitute a shared space of understanding. To achieve this aim, hermeneutic, existential-logotherapeutic and rhetorical approaches to the analysis of meaning were employed. The study demonstrated that meaning is neither a property of the object nor a product of the subject, but rather an event that emerges through the interaction of address and response. It was shown that addressivity constitutes a fundamental condition of understanding, since every process of meaning-making presupposes a situation of address directed towards an addressee. Within the existential-logotherapeutic framework, the anthropological status of the human being was clarified as that of both addressee and respondent, for whom meaning becomes disclosed through a responsible attitude towards a concrete situation. It was established that, in limit situations, meaning cannot be derived from ready-made interpretations but is formed in the process of responding. Rhetorical analysis demonstrated that response takes shape in speech, where listening, pause, silence and the spoken word constitute a unified space of meaning-making. On this basis, an integral model of meaning was proposed, bringing together addressivity, responsibility and linguistic form as interrelated dimensions of a single event. The practical significance of the study lies in the possibility of applying the proposed model to the analysis of public communication, the development of responsible speech, and the training of specialists in the humanities and theology

hermeneutics; logotherapy; speech; listening; meaning-making; communicative situation; experience of the Other