The Language Worldview Formation Through Learning Several Foreign Languages

Abstract

This article studies the issue of intercultural communication in a multicultural world. The main research questions are the role of multilingualism as an important mechanism for resolving intercultural conflicts in the context of identity problems, overcoming intercultural barriers, cultural gaps, the need to increase the cultural level and linguistic tolerance. Multilingualism presents a means of creating variants of the potential personal identity in the context of transculture. It is analyzed the lingua didactic aspect of the language worldview formation of the students at school and university that study the second and the third foreign languages. Multilingualism is a complex psycholinguistic phenomenon. It is considered in close connection with the concepts of linguistic consciousness, linguistic personality, since language is a way of thinking and a means of communication, and represents a worldview of an ethnos and linguistic personality. It is concluded that a linguistic personality who speaks several languages is a phenomenon characterized by the interaction in the linguistic consciousness of a person of sociolinguistic forms and norms of different cultural and socio-political characteristics. These are the linguistic categories of the native language, learned naturally and the categories from foreign languages, learned a second time. The possibility of forming a foreign-languages worldview determines the advisability of studying native and foreign languages in close connection with culture. The obtained results determine that students combine in their linguistic consciousness several language worldviews, which they possess approximately equally.