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THE BOUNDARIES OF SEMANTIC BARRIERS IN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

O.D. Shipunova, I.P. Berezovskaya, E.M. Gashkova, T.N. Ivanova

Abstract

The authors address the current issue of communicative barriers in intercultural social practice that reveals hidden conceptual horizons of the mass and individual consciousness, implicitly represented in the humanitarian discourse, the teaching practice and the choice of communication. The paper deals with the borders of the semantic barriers in intercultural communication connected to the intellectual style and ethic context. The research on human communication barriers in the dynamic conditions of modern society is connected to the orientation of the individual in the information field and represents an interdisciplinary problem that connects different fields of science unified by the cognitive paradigm in the analysis of culture, cogitation and behavior. This work uses the methods of socio-cognitive and comparative analysis with the addition of hermeneutics principles. This allows us to view different meaning generation scenarios by connecting the cultural forms of behavior to the discourse based on the vision of the context model. The authors represent the macro-cultural level of research on intellectual style typology. The paper analyzes the features of employing different intellectual styles in the framework of the humanitarian discourse. The authors describe the specific traits of Western and Eastern intellectual styles. The authors highlight the fact that implicitly expressed conceptual and ethic barriers in intercultural communication are created unconsciously not only by the framework of using a specific language and style typical for a certain culture and subculture, but also by concrete methodological and cognitive provisions in this subject area. The authors show that the semantic barrier in intercultural communication depends on the process of personal identification. At the mass consciousness level this barrier hides in the irrational dialogue between the person and the symbolics. The transgression from the cultural semantics dictate to the existential level of understanding in search for the meaning is not fully controlled by one's mind or community. In conclusion, the authors highlight the new perspectives in the study of intercultural communication problems offered by the systematic research on semantic barriers in the humanitarian discourse space.

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DOI resolver: doi.org/10.5593/SGEMSOCIAL2017/HB21/S06.046

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