Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences / Language Identification Content in Cross-Cultural Communication

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Issue
Journal of Siberian Federal University. Humanities & Social Sciences. 2023 16 (1)
Authors
Astakhov, Oleg Yu.
Contact information
Astakhov, Oleg Yu.: Kemerovo State Institute of Culture Kemerovo, Russian Federation;
Keywords
language identification; cross-cultural communication; communication; cultural relativism; W. von Humboldt; L. Weisgerber
Abstract

The article considers the issues for determining the content features of the language identification mechanisms in cross-cultural communication. Their realizing helps to overcome the miscommunication arising as a result of the difficulty for coordinating the interests of participants in cross-cultural communication, who perceive each other within the emerging stereotypes. The article considers the ideas of W. von Humboldt and his follower L. Weisgerber, who became the harbingers of a new view on realizing communication within the relations between culture and language. Their interpretation of the language identification of culture influenced establishing anthropocentric ideas on the language as a mechanism for implementing cultural reflection. So W. von Humboldt comes to the conclusion that the language is not just a means of communication, but the basis for developing internal spiritual forces of a person, the implementation of which is provided by the language creation activity; the language creation activity indicates that the language should be considered as a creative process in the culture implementation. Weisgerber L. has a similar understanding of the language, he considers the language ability as a mental activity characterized not only by static assimilation of culture, but also by a dynamic attitude to it. The logic of W. von Humboldt and L. Weisgerber’s arguments allows us to come to a conclusion about the necessity for realizing the language identification in cross-cultural communication within cultural relativism, in which the recognition of differences as natural characteristics of culture is realized. Thus, realizing cross-cultural communication is determined by forming cultural pluralism. So, it determines the significance of specific situations for cross-cultural communication. The openness of these situations establishes the language identification of culture, focused on language creation revealing the content of culture as a dynamic and incomplete formation in its development

Pages
4–12
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ZMMNYY
Paper at repository of SibFU
https://elib.sfu-kras.ru/handle/2311/149734

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