New Forms of Scientific Interaction in the Era of Civilizational Shift

Abstract

The article is devoted to the results of the Ist International Conference “Linguistics of Distancing: ontology and evolution of language in the time of civilizational shift”. A wide range of issues was raised during the conference. The conference participants — specialists in linguistics, psychology, philology, cultural studies, anthropology, cognitive science, and history — shared their language changes observations. Over the past 50 years, humanity has gone from a global economic boom to a complete break in social groups and entire peoples’ relations, from globalization to regionalization, from world unity to the separation of peoples and cultures. The global coronavirus epidemic has changed the nature of human communication. The desire to expand its horizons remains, and of the available means of knowing the world of people, humanity has very little left — virtual communication channels. And the main thing is that instead of a “fulllength person”, the communication participants received almost one hundred per cent verbal information with nearly zero nonverbal information.