INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN MODERN WORLD

Abstract

The article analyses the content of the concept of ˝intercultural competence˝ and defines its elements as the basis of its own communicative behaviour. It also emphasises the socio-cultural significance of intercultural communication in the modern world. The problem of intercultural communication is one of the main in modern science. In the most general form, the process of intercultural communication is the interaction of individuals who are carriers of different cultures, each of which has its own language, types of behaviour, values, customs and traditions. In the process of communication, each participant acts simultaneously and as a separate individual, and as a member of a socio-cultural group, and as a representative of a particular cultural community, and as a representative of all mankind. Hence, he has simultaneously individual, as well as social, national, and universal knowledge in his mind. Development of competent intercultural communication skills requires its participants to understand what, when, and how it can and must be said or done. For successful implementation of these settings they need: socio-cultural (context) knowledge, communicative skills and abilities, as well as language knowledge. As a result of achieving life and professional goals, the individual must have the ability to intercultural communication: to adequately perceive and interpret different cultural values; consciously overcome the borders separating cultures; see in foreign cultures not only general but also common features; to consider various cultural phenomena and representatives of other cultures from the point of view of empathy; correlate existing ethno-cultural stereotypes with own experience and make adequate conclusions; to be able to view and change their assessments of another culture in accordance with the expansion of skills and experience of intercultural communication; to change self-esteem as a result of comprehending another culture and rejecting unwarranted stereotypes or prejudices; to accept new knowledge about another culture for a deeper knowledge of one’s own; systematise the facts of cultural life; synthesise and generalize your personal experience in intercultural dialogue.