Intercultural communication in a changing world: reviewing past experience and outlook

Feopentova Svetlana

The article considers intercultural communication as a phenomenon of modern social, cultural and linguistic reality. It is noted that intercultural communication has a rich history, its roots go back to antiquity, when the differences of other people became obvious to people. At the first stages of the development of intercultural communication, there was a tendency to reject the Other, to misunderstand its differences and to present the differences of the Other as an antinorm. The development of civilization went along the path of changing ideas about the Other. In modern intercultural communication, the main features are tolerance, the recognition of the right to difference for representatives of other cultures, the tendency to accept a representative of a different culture with all its features and take these features into account in the course of communication with him. No matter how the history of modern states develops, these features and trends have firmly entered the theory and practice of intercultural communication and determine its development in the future.

Keywords:Russian language, English language, intercultural communication, image of the Other, cultural differences, tolerance.