SEMANTIC PECULIARITIES OF ENGLISH-SPEAKING COMMUNICATION IN THE CONTEXT OF INTERCULTURAL AND SOCIAL INTERACTION

Abstract

This paper is devoted to an outline analysis of semantic peculiarities of Englishspeaking communication in the context of intercultural and social interaction. In particular, attention has been paid to the studying of the communicative personality that has its own peculiarities while actualizing at different levels and different types of communication, the dominant of which are motivational, cognitive and functional parameters; characteristics of national communicative peculiarities in the process intercultural exchange; systematization of means of everyday communication aiming at achievement of mutual understanding and also determination and systematization of preservation of national cultural colouring in this process such as principle of unity of formal and dynamic equivalence, principle of integral perception, conditionality and electoral attitude, etc. The author examines the intercultural and social communicants’ interaction that can be a manifestation of an adequate communicative behavior in the process of mutual understanding and the establishment of mutual relation; also an ability adequately to interpret and to take national and cultural diversity of communication partners. As a result the actual problem of English-speaking communication has been identified on the interdisciplinary level with an attraction of ethno psychology, sociology, intercultural pragmatics, linguistics and other adjacent disciplines on the basis of the complex approach that permits to take a view of the cultural type, the structure of social relations, the main cultural values, accepted standards and norms. Language and culture are generally recognized notions and how these models of communicative behavior can correlate with the system of culture represents the great interest as for the general theory of communication so for the analysis of communication within limits of separate linguistic community. It is postulated the idea that of the results of system analysis of valuable orientations of the British may identify the hierarchy of desirable qualities of the British nation. As a result it has been testified that the successful intercultural and social interaction is a manifestation of an adequate communicative behavior in the process of mutual understanding and the establishment mutual relations between partners on communication.