Kislyakova E.Y., Grinev-Grinevich S., Sorokina E.A., Madzhaeva S.I. Communicative Category of Alterity: Linguocultural and Linguoecological Properties
DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2023.1.12
Evgenia Y. Kislyakova
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Department of English Language and Methods of Its Teaching, Volgograd State Socio-Pedagogical University
Prosp. im. V.I. Lenina, 27, 400005 Volgograd, Russia
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Sergey Grinev-Grinevich
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Faculty of Humanities and Economics (Department of English-Russian Philology), State Higher Professional School after Edward Shchepanik in Suvalki
Theophil Nonevich St, 10, 16-400 Suvalki, Poland
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Elvira А. Sorokina
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Department of English Philology, Moscow Region State Pedagogical University
Very Voloshinoy St, 24, 141014 Mytishchi, Russia
Professor, Department of Linguistics, Russian University of Transport
Obraztsova St, 9, 127994 Moscow, GSP-4, Russia
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Sanya I. Madzhaeva
Doctor of Sciences (Philology), Professor, Head of the Department of Latin and Foreign Languages, Astrakhan State Medical University
Bakinskaya St, 121, 414000 Astrakhan, Russia
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Abstract. The aim of the article is to give an in-depth insight into alterity as a communication category in the cognitive and discursive aspects. Being an indispensable part of communication and cognition, the category has its own meaning presenting the communicative interaction within the frame "I – the Other". The category of alterity has its own set of category properties, which are specified uniquely in different languages. Alterity as a linguistic category may express an outlook on the reality (similar, i.e. familiar, devoid of risk: other, different, vague, evidently evoking fear or curiosity). In the Russian language, it is linked to the emotional clusters of curiosity, fear, suspense, whereas in the English language it is associated with curiosity, admiration, surprise and novice. Alterity is characterized similarly in English and Russian through maintaining such features as dissimilarity, variety, multifariousness, belonging to different classes/groups, distinct opposition. As well as common features, alterity manifests culturally specific meanings in English (being eccentric, revolutionary, new, fresh) and Russian (being funny and incongruous). The article includes a description of the linguistic means and communicative strategies and tactics, with the help of which the category of alterity is realized in fiction. The category content is variable in the discourse and it serves ground for the ecological and non-ecological mode of communication.
Key words: communicative mindset, communicative category, alterity, category properties, culturally relevant differences, ecological mode of communication, non-ecological mode of communication.
Citation. Kislyakova E.Y., Grinev-Grinevich S., Sorokina E.A., Madzhaeva S.I. Communicative Category of Alterity: Linguocultural and Linguoecological Properties. Vestnik Volgogradskogo gosudarstvennogo universiteta. Seriya 2. Yazykoznanie [Science Journal of Volgograd State University. Linguistics], 2023, vol. 22, no. 1, pp. 151-161. DOI: https://doi.org/10.15688/jvolsu2.2023.1.12
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