Understanding as basic precondition of cross-cultural communication: psycholinguistic and socio-cultural aspects
Understanding as basic precondition of cross-cultural communication: psycholinguistic and socio-cultural aspects

Summary/Abstract: The author of the article analyzes cross-cultural communication from the viewpoint of social philosophy defining invariant features of cross-cultural communication based on dialogue (Mikhail Bakhtin) and dialect nature of human communication. Theoretical description of the nature of cross-cultural communication is illustrated by live examples of the cultural conflicts borrowed from the history of the Russian diplomacy. Since the consciousness has the communicative nature, whereas cross-cultural understanding is rooted in neuropsychological aspects of cognition, antinomy of “sign-symbol”, the article depicts the mechanisms of speech production and speech perception divided between the strata of consciousness and cognition.

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