Information theory and linguistics. The major types of information from a linguo-stylistic prospective.

In terms of information theory the author’s style may be named the stylistics of encode – the language being viewed as the code to shape the information into the message and the supplier of information respectively, the author is the encoder (addresser). The audience in this case plays the part of the decoder of the information contained in the message and the problem connected with the adequate reception of the message without any information loses and deformation that is with adequate decoding other concern of decoding stylistics.

Information, in terms of philosophy, is the inner content of the process of reflection which results in changing the characteristics of some objects due to the influence of other objects they interact with.

Denotative information - is the contential nucleus of a language unit which 1) names the subject-matter of communication; 2) is not predetermined by the communication act; 3) directly or indirectly refers to the object or notion of reality.

Connotative information is the contential periphery of a language unit which: 1) depends upon different aspects of communication act (time, participants, etc). 2) expresses the speaker's attitude to the subject-matter of communication, to the listener os to the social status of the interlocutors.

Message is the information which the speaker intends to transmit to (or, rather, to provoke in) the listener. Signal is the information materialized verbally (e.g. in a sound form) or non-verbally (e.g. dance, a piece of music etc.), as a text etc.

Communication channel is constituted by the physical, situational, cultural, social, economic, or political environment in which the signal is transmitted.

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