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THE EVOLUTION OF CONCEPTUAL VIEWS ON ALIENNESS IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES

Linguistic Theory. Cross-cultural Communication Theory , UDC: 81:1

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  • Suvorova Elena V. PhD (Pedagogy)

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The article presents a systematic analysis of the concept alienness within the frameworks of various social and humanitarian theories, belonging to the following spheres: cultural linguistics and anthropology, philosophy and cultural studies, linguistics and ethnolinguistics. The analysis relies on the basis of 65 scientific and research works in the mentioned above areas of knowledge and aims at revealing the conceptual content of alienness through the prism of interdisciplinary approaches. It concludes that the gradual opposition other – different – foreign – alien can be built with various components, such as: I – Another one (Others), I – NOT-ME, own – alien, close – different. The idea of alien is intertwined with affective-perceptual-cognitive cultural attitudes, which are internalized in the process of growing up and afterwards evolve into the category of the unconscious. The binary opposition own – alien (other, different) can be global, i. e. include other oppositions such as good – bad, righteous – sinful, pure – wicked, etc. The opposition self – alien (other, alien) can also be represented as a three-level system: close (secular, understandable) – distant (alien, sacral, mystical); close to my social circle – far from my social circle; individual (accepted by me personally at the level of values and beliefs) – social (i. e. values and beliefs that I may or may not accept). It is the language that becomes a trigger launching the identification system «friend – foe», as it keeps the individual and cultural experience, which allows an individual to differentiate the surrounding world at the level of the secular – sacral; close – distant (in terms of belonging to a certain social or ethnic group) acceptable – unacceptable.

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Suvorova, E. V. (2024). THE EVOLUTION OF CONCEPTUAL VIEWS ON ALIENNESS IN THE HUMANITIES AND SOCIAL SCIENCES Bulletin of the Moscow City Pedagogical University. Series "Pedagogy and Psychology", 3 (55),
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