«ВОЙНА И МИР ЯЗЫКОВ И КУЛЬТУР» СКВОЗЬ ПРИЗМУ ВЗГЛЯДА ИНОСТРАННЫХ И РУССКИХ СТУДЕНТОВ
“WAR AND PEACE OF LANGUAGES AND CULTURES” THROUGH THE EYES OF FOREIGN AND RUSSIAN STUDENTS

Summary/Abstract: The correlation between language, mindset and culture has been a relevant linguistic subject for many years. The research focuseson comparing one of the speech etiquette elements of the Russian and English languages that reflects different ethnic, cultural andlanguage assumptions. The author looks into the correlation between such concepts as speech etiquette and politeness in the contextof their ethnic specificity and involvement in the language picture of the world. The peace of languages is understood as an associationof people for friendship and cooperation, the war of languages – as a set of language and cultural barriers, which are put up bylanguage and culture. In this regard the article investigates the features of communicative behavior of foreign (English) studentswho annually come to Petrozavodsk State University under the Russian Language Undergraduate Studies (RLUS) language trainingprogram, in comparison to the communicative behavior of Russian students in one standard situation of daily communication. Theresearch uses data received by interviewing respondents during the period from 2011 to 2017 and makes conclusions about ethnicand cultural differences in the perception of an identical communicative situation by English and Russian students. Methods ofsemantic, pragmatic and lexicographic analysis are used. The relevance of a research is based on the need for studying the nationalstyle of communication – a concept recently introduced to the linguistic circles.

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