Abstract

Discourse as part of culture reflects social processes in society. In our study, we attempted to apply the system analysis to the study of the evolution of discourse. Human consciousness evolved from the collective unconsciousness and concrete thinking to abstract and logical. Myths, legends, stories were followed by the heroic epics, fairy tales, then household and historical literature. For the analysis, we used the model of the evolutionary cone and showed the correspondence of the discourse to this model. Today, it is important for human development to present for young people worthy examples in literature and culture that can form humanistic values of evolution in the human mind. The evolutionary cone model consists of four phases in the development of knowledge space and is fractal. The first phase is a one-wave information space. It corresponds to the emergence of discourse. The second phase is the coexistence of two multi-directional vectors of development of discourse. The third phase is the emergence of the third branch – discourse and culture with its originality. The fourth phase is the space of modern discourse with many different directions of rotation of information chaos and disharmony areas, from which a new world of discourse is to be born.