КОНГЕНИАЛЬНОСТЬ КАК МЕДИАТОР МЕЖКУЛЬТУРНОЙ КОММУНИКАЦИИ

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КОНГЕНИАЛЬНОСТЬ КАК МЕДИАТОР МЕЖКУЛЬТУРНОЙ КОММУНИКАЦИИ

Journal Title: Гуманітарний часопис - Year 2016, Vol 1, Issue 3

Abstract

Shashkov Pavel CONGENIALITY AS A MEDIATOR OF INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION If we should stop peering into our "bright future" and look back just for a second, what would we see? Endless attempts of society and individual to redefine its nature, continuous trials and errors over our "ideals", reaching compromises both with Others and Ourself, and destroying carefully built theoretical systems in case they fail to work. A human, as a consciously thinking and acting entity, creates his own reality playing with culture like with kaleidoscope combining colored glass in some unique pattern and thus changing him at the same time. Aristotle in his Politics work defines a human being as a «political (social) entity». Personality is created and exists because of social connections that are basically developed in the sphere of language communication. It is verbal interaction that helps a human being to arrogate to culture and assume himself as Colour Guard of Culture sharing its "light" with others. But when two Colour Guards with different Cultural values and ideals meet on international level and even on "thin cross-roads" they may initiate intercultural conflict. Due to fast rates of unfolding globalism as well as consumer and network infrastructures, society produces an increasing threat to cultural conflicts. We believe that conflicts are produced not by abstractions of cultural values, but by "mirrors" that reflect their own reality. Therefore, nature of intercultural communication has epistemological features, i.e. in the process of communication the identity synthesizes the discourse (representation of one’s reality) using discrete concepts and images in accordance with a certain plan, and analyzes perceived Logos of a different worldview. In our opinion, attention should be paid to imaginative tools of cognition, because they play an epistemologically key role in shaping the world picture and its translation into other "mirrors". Neurobiologists in their studies of ideas assimilation identified by means of the silent cinema experiment that regardless of the native language the brain activity of all the subjects was observed in the same regions of the brain, and had a common correlation. Scientists tend to make errors sometimes, but assuming that diagram curves match the idea contained in interactive image, we can conclude that in some cases humans are able to understand discourse identically (in this experiment movie episodes were very intensive and participants might not have had any chances to be distracted by any stimuli). Participants’ imagination was totally involved in assimilation of ready-touse images, though verbal communication is not so univocal due to a creative side of verbalization of thought-forms. The author argues with some statements of a meaningful discussion by Karl Popper. In his article "The Myth of the Framework" the philosopher of science states that the presence of different "conceptual framework" produced by communication participants is a constructive grain, but he missed one key point - in this form of communication participants must have something common, namely an interest to argue and dispute. However, as it is said, dispute generates hostility rather than the truth. We designate congeniality as a connecting link between different imaginations, i.e. a mediator in intercultural communication. In our opinion, it is commensurate creative resources that are a common basis for effective dialogue. Therefore, the aggregation in communication process is possible between different cultures, if apart from the general semiotic dialogue system creative potentials of communicants are congenial. The subject of a mediator is imagination, which mediates the understanding and the object of cognition, and therefore should be structurally commensurate with the subject of intentions. Incommensurability of imagination and its subject matter leads to conflict, and communication here acts as a catalyst. Effective and mindful acceptance of the theory (view on the world) is possible if the person is a participant of creative process. Creation of new knowledge takes place in the laboratory ("sets") in order to obtain predictable, expected results (identity). But the Reality plays a bigger role in meanings creation than the Social. So, personality may respond on social life challenges in unexpected ways. And this component is a most natural part of consciousness.

Authors and Affiliations

Павло Шашков

Keywords

Ключевые слова: язык воображение сознание конгениальность медиатор межкультурная коммуникация идентичность идентификация. Keywords: language imagination consciousness congeniality mediator intercultural communication identity identification.

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