Intercultural communication: linguistic and cultural barriers

Abstract

Questions of achieving effectiveness of intercultural communication, its linguistic and cultural-anthropological aspects are considered. Various factors influence the success of communication: communicative intentions, goals and relationships of communicants, their social status, education, culture, level of knowledge about an object, etc. The problem of achieving successful intercultural communication is interdisciplinary. A person is considered as the owner of a special cognitive system, which is an interconnected thinking, consciousness, speech and he processes and stores information. The extraction of information from memory occurs in verbal form. Language is a cognitive-communicative system, but context, degree of awareness of interlocutors, and their background knowledge are important for communication. Linguistic and cultural barriers of intercultural communication are considered, as well as the place of machine translation in communication.