The rapid development of social and humanitarian fields in modern times and the emergence of a large number of practically important areas in which the commitment to interdisciplinary approach is justified set the task to rethink the amount of theoretical conclusions that enable us to determine promising areas and boundaries of such cooperation. Conceptual model of anthropological and axiological approach (in the framework of philosophical comparativism) comes from a number of theoretical and methodological assumptions, suggesting to perform diverse cultures' "horizontal" (synchronous) and "vertical" (diachronic) comparative analysis aimed to optimize their interaction. Among its basic foundations are: first, attention to the spatial and temporal concepts at the level of everyday communication and culture's intellectual reflection on itself; secondly, the study of the moral, religious, and aesthetic canons and innovation, specific to certain socio-cultural environment; thirdly, the research of formats of intercultural interaction within targeted community in various spheres - from cultural exchanges to economic and political processes, expecting literature searches on the subject, as well as discussions with representatives of particular cultures and activities. Essentially, it refers to identifying linguocultural and behavioral patterns that express cultural forms typical for a particular country and region in the modern era; as well as to their relevant disclosures in real time. A separate task is to clarify the thesaurus through the understanding of discursive practices, including "reflexive use of the word" in "high" stylistic registers of science and philosophy that have an indirect impact on its everyday usage. This update is related to further development of categorical apparatus, taking into account the achievements of linguistics, cultural research, cognitive studies in various fields, and at the same time based on the immanent theoretical development of the conceptual frameworks of philosophy as a self-contained discipline. It is clear that the task suppose just provisional conclusion: proposed ideas need to be adjusted and enhanced by a wide range of professionals working in the field of intercultural communication, and should be constantly updated due to the the replenishment of the latest research data.

The difference between terrorism and war in philosophy is not yet clarified. We suggest the following criteria to define a concept of terrorism and/or war: social places, means of production (weapon), ways of communication and social bodies. Place is not a landscape, but we name it “Arche-” homeland, motherland, which provides war discourse alibi, while terrorism is a nomad field. Everything put into action by force and fire is considered to be means of war and terrorism. Rifle creates a soldier. Available quantity of weapons encourages its usage. Media is a way of legitimation of terroristic discourse: violence is declared as an act of terrorism even when its reason is unknown. But war breaks communication. Terroristic act and its consequences force different social bodies to interact: affected terrorist’s body (suicide bomber and others) and even-tempered disciplined social body of European man. Analysis of social bodies’ practices shows us rebelling, perverse, affecting bodies as well as bodies full of discipline, obedience, in other words - subjective, sovereign bodies.

The article presents the phenomenon of proletariat acting as a social body of Marxist utopian projects. Since socio-cultural reality at any particular historic period is already mature and quite stable structure arisen from social development throughout the course of history, meanwhile the utopia is considered as a phenomenon of the socio-cultural reality, reflecting salient features of the civilization it is based on, it seems possible to reveal the specifics of the Russian proletariat and practical methods of its consciousness formation. The author substantiates the position that specific features of socio-cultural reality caused state Marxism policy formation, emphasizing the need for a prompt transformation of spontaneous proletarian consciousness and its destructive origin into something positive through the development of its self-consciousness creating a positive type of a worker-proletarian. Peculiarities of the Russian reality gave rise to state Marxism formation with a particular focus on a rapid transformation of a spontaneous origin of the working-class movement into the organized class.

The article is devoted to the analysis of current functional features of religious institutions in Northeast Asian countries, which are due to the globalization processes of today’s ideological and legal products. The extraterritorial character of legal globalization in state and confessional relations is constitutionally built upon the liberal basis of personal human rights. The modernization processes of national, political and legal systems in Northeast Asian countries have a dual vector directed to both westernization and dewesternization. In this regard, on the one hand, there is a trend of globalization of the value factors of liberal ideology - market, democracy, human rights - and the establishment of this trend at the constitutional level in the Asia-Pacific Region. On the other hand, this complex undergoes verification in the fields of traditional interpretation of values, political and legal practices and geopolitical pragmatism. The research employs cultural approach, which defines the axiological modes of legal thinking and legal awareness determined by traditional narratives of ethnic and religious culture. The religious factor as one of the fundamental elements in the globalization processes displays an ‘East - West’ reverse vector. The driving forces for these processes in the Northeast Asia Region are China and South Korea, which are currently undergoing the phases of ideological integration (China) and ideological expansionism (South Korea). The author notes that for socialism-oriented countries - China and North Korea - the aporia between the basic components of traditional legal awareness and the liberal legal reception of constitutional level is manifested in the differentiation of religious communities on the basis of their political loyalty and the level of positive legal institutionalization. Within the framework of the principle of statism in the field of law enforcement, the functioning of religious institutions, manifestation of political disloyalty and the processes of “missionary geopolitics » in the XX-XXIst centuries are under strict state control.

The author of the article analyzes cross-cultural communication from social philosophy viewpoint defining invariant features of cross-cultural communication based on dialogue (Mikhail Bakhtin) and dialect nature of human communication. Theoretical description of the nature of crosscultural communication is illustrated by live examples of cultural conflicts borrowed from the history of the Russian diplomacy. Since consciousness has the communicative origin, whereas cross-cultural understanding is rooted in neuropsychological aspects of cognition, antinomy of “sign-symbol”, the article depicts the mechanisms of speech production and speech perception divided between the strata of consciousness and cognition. The paper underlines the hermeneutic essence of intercultural dialogue, which reveals through understanding between communicators at conceptual and semantic levels, moreover at cultural and civilizational dimensions in the context of the multipolar world, taking into account global socioeconomic, ethnocultural, political trends in different countries around the world. Internalization of education, information and telecommunication technologies catalyzes intercultural communication, forming knowledge society inhabited by ‘homo loquens’. Intensive intercultural contacts quite often give rise to cultural conflicts. The author categorizes this phenomenon by ranging the mistakes, insufficient understanding, embarrassments and conflicts of intercultural communication, reveals in-depth socio-cultural paradigm, axiological, world outlook and religious aspects that cause negative outcomes of intercultural contacts. Understanding in intercultural dialogue is composed of ethnosociocultural context and psycholinguistic mechanisms of speech perception and speech production. The operational item of understanding is considered to be a code which has a symbolic nature. The article depicts the interconnection between symbol, code, act of communication, consciousness and national world view.

The article presents modern specifics of Turkish cross-cultural policy. Having passed through several stages, Turkish modern intercultural policy represents “one nation - one country - one language” scheme introduced by Ataturk which in fact puts national and religious minorities into a vulnerable position. Moreover Turkish government acknowledges only Jews, Greeks and Armenians as minority groups that brings up the problem of cultural minority recognition. Cross-cultural communication legal aspects in Turkey are also analyzed within the article. Remarkably, Turkey doesn’t have any laws aimed at regulating intercultural policy; moreover even the Constitution of the Republic lacks the issue. From a legal perspective, Turkish intercultural policy is being implemented on the basis of few articles of various laws, which are vague and broad wording and may be interpreted in the interests of the state. Kurdish issue is a major challenge of the Turkish cross-cultural policy. At the end of the XX century Kurdish struggle for national rights and autonomy dissolved into armed conflict forcing Ankara to make some concessions. However such matters as recognition of Kurds as a minority, introduction of Kurmanji/Zaza in Kurdish schools and the use of the national language in press are left pending. The dialog between the government and Kurdish delegates is complicated by Kurds aspirations for autonomy and Republic’s intention to preserve its integrity. Overall, Republic of Turkey is very considerate of both its territorial and cultural integrity resulting in “one nation - one country - one language” policy implementation concerning cross-cultural communication.

The article explores the issue of cultural pluralities’ borders transformation in the contemporary world. Political borders are considered a type of cultural sets’ boundaries that were opened up by the European project of universal culture. Transcendental ideas played a pivotal role in constructing universalism. Through the decay of transcendent dimension in cross-border interaction studies, the concept of space attracted considerable attention. The spatial schemes of environmental perception dominated in Western thought for two and a half thousand years. G.W.F. Hegel summed up the characteristics of modern European mind: “The truth of space is time”. Spatial logic expresses the essence of time. According to Hegel, at the beginning of the 19th century the World Spirit came to its total selfidentity, thus time flow lost all sense, the end of history happened. Of course, it does not mean that the element of time became extinct and historical process as a succession of events came to an end. The “end of history” thesis reflects certain embodiment of Enlightenment ideals in social and cultural practices. However, the end of history based on temporal self-identification consciousness, opened up a new horizon of human history - its existence in a net of spatial (cultural) pluralities. Cultural sets exist as mutually intersecting, and its external border in a global world turns out to be a closed limit. In 1990s the conception of the “borderless world” was developed proclaiming that boundaries’ disappearance was natural and calling to destroy the borders. Nowadays, we are witnessing boundaries’ simultaneous destruction and strengthening process. The paper asserts that scanty knowledge of ontological sense of a boundary in humanitarian studies and practices is caused by an excessive attention to constructing abilities of human mind. Boundary phenomenon comprehension presupposes raising the question of possible forms of transcendence presence in contemporary non-transcendent world.

In the article the author defines the main task of teaching Russian as a foreign language. It consists not only in teaching grammar and lexis to foreign students but also in the development of background knowledge for understanding the Russian culture. Considering the issue of nationally-oriented teaching of Russian to foreign students and peculiarities of training foreigners in international groups, the author points out the significance of selecting educational material, choosing optimal methods of its presentation and effective ways of working with complex phenomena of the Russian grammar, as well as foreseeing common errors in students’ speech. Teachers analyze teaching techniques in groups of European and Asian students taking into account their national peculiarities, share their experience in teaching phonetics, grammar, reading and listening with foreign students. Characterizing students from the Asian-Pacific region, Arab countries, Europe and America, the author points out which teaching style is most suitable for each particular group of students, and describes their attitude to various tasks given in the classroom. In this regard it is recommended to take into account peculiarities of students’ native language. This approach makes it possible to work out the right method of work in each particular group and to develop abilities of all students. The author also mentions that carrying out extracurricular activities attended by students from different countries contributes to their development and education as well. The Russian language is the only means of communication in the international groups of students, which makes them take its learning more seriously and try to put knowledge into practice. Working with representatives of different cultures on a day-to-day basis students broaden their world outlook, display interest to customs and traditions of different countries, comparing them with their own. This makes students more tolerant to foreign cultures and facilitates the process of joining cultural atmosphere of our country.

When translating a literary text full of culturally specific features, interpreters try to explicate the implicit. It may turn into their interpretation of the source text, as well as paraphrasing and replacement of what is unclear or misunderstood by “understandable” ideas and concepts. Texts meanings’ increment occurs when translators convert the initial system of concepts and images created by the author. Texts’ inclusiveness into the semiosphere is supported by citations, headings and titles, epigraphs, allusions, reminiscences, various symbols of culture, cultural memory, so-called genre memory, etc., referring to the prototext and / or substituting it in a particular text. In fiction the WORD specifies and directs the processes of meanings’ reception and meanings’ construction that are particular for every reader. In literary texts the WORD appears as a means of its cultural specification and sets out the limits of its interpretive range. The reader starts to reconstruct the author’s intentions trying to enter the WORD’s worlds. In some cases the WORD can be a part of the author’s particular “language” known only for the initiated readers. The level of the highest practicable translatability also depends on the orientation of the author to a particular subject area and associated specialized knowledge. Modern translation theory suggests the idea of fundamental translatability of any text due to the fact that there can be untranslatable language, thematic and stylistic phenomena, but untranslatability is eliminated at the level of the text. Translatability and untranslatablity of cultural references and cultural codes is related to specific lacunar concepts. The article discusses how to reproduce and recreate cultural specification of a literary text in the process of translation.

This article covers some problems of the Russian piano education of the 20th century relating to its two spheres closely interrelated - professional and amateur. Considering their existence in different periods of the Russian 20th century history, the author focuses on the fact that the piano has played an important role in society spiritual life throughout the previous century. Piano culture intensive development during the socialist period, caused by its continuity with the traditions of the Russian piano school, is reflected in the creation of the Soviet musical education. Despite its obvious success, in the modern period the problem of using specialized techniques in the field of developing piano pedagogy becomes actual. It is explained by the need for the formation of a broad stratum of educated music lovers, as well as by the gradual acoustic instrument displacement from the sphere of mass musical education and replacing it with electronic analogues. The article stresses the importance of preserving national traditions in the two spheres of piano culture, as well as their development in the framework of the new concept of «human technology».

Avant-garde became a global cultural phenomenon of the 20th century, essentially symbolizing the epoch. It’s impossible to picture the 20th century image without avant-garde. Nevertheless, the study of the Russian first wave musical avant-garde is still challenging since this unique phenomenon was neglected by national science on ideological grounds. In this article the author discusses the dual character of avant-garde, its ability to resist tradition, interacting with it at the same time and creating conditions for the synthesis of new, interesting and promising forms. The article presents key personalities of the Russian first wave musical avant-garde, such as: N. Kulbin, actually elaborating theoretical foundation of the Russian avant-garde music reflected in his article “Free music”; I. Vyshnegradsky, following N. Kulbin and proceeding to investigate theoretically the technique of quarter tones as well as to use it for music and new instruments’ creation. The paper also focuses on those composers who followed their own independent way inventing original systems of sound organization, among them: A. Avraamov, who invented a musical system with the octave divided into 48 equal intervals; N. Obukhov who developed the concept of 12-tone atonal techniques apart from A. Schoenberg. The author examines the main theoretical ideas of the musical avant-garde and their practical implementations, presents historical parallels with current musical trends, and analyzes the reasons for the Russian musical avant-garde short life and its significance for world music.

The art of calligraphy is based on cultural traditions, culture, philosophy, education, science, and religion. In this article the author considers calligraphy from the point of view of traditional and modern approaches to social and cultural needs of a person in modern conditions of computerization, and the consequences of the use of calligraphy after the invention of the printing press throughout the historical development. The author analyses different approaches to manners of teaching and practical application of calligraphy, and also views key points of the dialogue between East and West on the art of calligraphy in its traditional and cultural development. The article considers recent studies of modern rethinking of values and the art traditions of the past, present and future, also of a significant impact of modern individual experience, on perception of the world and people’s behaviour. The article suggests severalmodern methods of studying calligraphy, its development and traditions in different cultures, and how it could help to resolve current sequence of dysgraphia problems; methods which also could create specific calligraphy skills of students and organize their personality, which depends on many factors such as the degree of involvement in the cultural development of the country, on its ability to retain, supply and properly orientate oneself through the world’s cultural diversity of historically created traditions. With the help of an example of interaction and cooperation between cultures which are based on the features of distinctive approaches, taking into consideration the inherent historical development, a dynamic image of modern life, a partial modification of the traditional value systems and the appearance of new ones, the author considers the main aspect of the cultural dialogue between East and West about approaches to calligraphy - are these harmonically balanced methods of new trends and tendencies of art into the existing system which has been already developed. Thus, the article is an updated search for new understandings of cultural reality, causing the formation of the personality of each person.

Hieroglyphic script culture is the object of the paper; the subject is its role in social and cultural transformations visualization taking place in modern Japanese society. Research methodology includes cognitive approach, which considers the language as a means for learning the world and anthropocentric approach, observing the language in the context of “human factor”. Special attention is given to key events and ideas. Characters Day (Kanji Day) is celebrated on December 12 in Japan. The character with the most votes, selected to represent the events of the year, is announced at a special ceremony at Kiyomizu Temple. Since 1994, this is the date for the announcement of the Kanji of the Year, chosen by the Japanese Kanji Proficiency Society. In 2016 the character (kin; kane) meaning «gold», «money», «metal» was chosen as the character-symbol of the year. Kin garnered 6 605 votes, or 4.33% of the 153 162 ballots cast. The linguoculturological analysis of the results of the «Kanji of the Year» competition undertaken in this article allows for the conclusion that the value of hieroglyphic writing is very important to Japanese social development. Hieroglyphics is an integral, organic part of the culture and art; it is the channel of socio-cultural changes’ visualization. The author points out that in the context of globalization in the modern communicative space hieroglyphics can compete successfully with other semantic-symbolic systems.

Electronic communication has been taken for granted by many people; the impact of digital communications on perception is a pressing issue. Therefore simultaneity and linearity as two different patterns of perception common to each person can be represented. Previously, the understanding of brainwork was based on the linearity conception, yet with the recent progress of digital development the simultaneity underpins the way of thinking (for example, the variety of icons visible on computer desktop all at once enables to choose each of them). The focus of simultaneity research is usually specified as “the figure”, while the rest which is sent back is called “background”. When the figure is chosen, the previous one goes to the background. In other words, the simultaneity represents a correlation process between the “figure” and the “background” as opposed to the lineal perception, excluding the background (it is known from Euclidean geometry). The existence of figures without background leads to the lineal, gradual and logical way of thinking. A book as the lineal type of information plays a revolutionary role and moulds an independent way of thinking. This Article dwells upon the processes of information overload, information extraction; recognition and usage of schemes enhancing the understanding of the reality; figures recognition programs construction based on integral perception. The role of the simultaneity conception in educational programs development is also defined.

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In this paper, the authors consider the problem of intercultural communication on the example of comparison of images of self-presentation of Russian and American youth who use social networks “Vkontakte” and “Facebook”. The authors, jn the basis of the idea of double contingently and unity of information, namely the communication and understanding that is used in the theory of Nicholas Luhmann, conducted the survey. In this study, by analyzing public information on personal pages of users in social networks “Vkontakte” and “Facebook”, an atterupt was wade to identify the methods and forms of constructing identity of Russian and American social media users. The article compares and assesses the information that these users post on their personal pages in social networks. In the study the authors come to the couclision that American users are more dynamic and open in communication than Russian users, however, both groups of users from Russia and from America have been trying to build a positive social image of themselves on the Internet. The article has a theoretical and applied nature, and it will be relevant for researchers studying sociology of youth and intercultural communication.