THE INTERACTION OF LANGUAGE AND CULTURE ON INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

  • TAMAR DIASAMIDZE
Keywords: verbal nonverbal communication, interpersonal communication, linguistic barrier.

TAMAR DIASAMIDZE

Assistant-professor of Batumi Navigation teaching University

Batumi, Georgia

E-mail: t.diasamidze@bntu.edu.ge

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Abstract

In the course of the modern world building when the entire world is gradually being globalized, cultural studies attracted special attention that build the universal culture, and meanwhile expose the national identity.   

The recent social, political, and economic changes in the world led to the unprecedented migration of the nations and the cultural conflicts respectively. Though the relationship among the nations is easier to establish, they also face problems of understanding. This is one of the most fundamental problems today when attempts are made to solving through cross-cultural dialogue and mutual understanding.

Nowadays, each culture is the subject of the comprehensive research by the contemporary sciences, and every aspect of its existence is under the magnifying glass (lifestyle, world vision, consciousness, mentality, nationality, character, product of the spiritual and material activity).  

The contemporary science focuses on the complicated mutual effect among the language, consciousness, and culture; the language reflects the cultural consciousness of the specific ethnos, whereas the language categories, on the other hand, affect the consciousness of the people shaping the types of their mentality, world vision, values and social behavior. Therefore, the perception of the reality by people is conditioned by their belonging to a certain ethnical group and culture, which is reflected in the language. In other words, the language is a kind of the code which pierces every process of thinking and forms a personality – bearer of a certain language, and thus the world vision encoded within.

The linguistics studies the language as ‘a system in action’. The contemporary linguistics views an individual as the main subject of the linguistics and since the creator of the language is a human being, naturally, the communicative linguistics orients on a human being as a persona lingua.  

Respectively, the aim of the thesis is to study the communication as a linguistic and cultural phenomenon and peculiarities of its verbal and non-verbal dimensions.

The aforementioned aims may be accomplished be achieving the following objectives: identification of the interrelation between the linguistic processes and non-verbal communication, and differentiation of their role in the communication. The need for tackling the given problem is also conditioned by the correct interpretation of non-verbal signs which shall be considered to avoid frequent conflicts due to misunderstanding.

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Published
2020-11-30