STRATEGIES OF EQUAL STATUS INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION

Abstract

This article is aimed at arguing a professional type of intercultural communication,at substantiating status equality as a paramount distinctive feature of professional interculturalcommunication and also at presenting some of the strategies associated with it.Thereupon, in the article:– the notion of professional intercultural communication is validated and its integral part – statusequality - is grounded,– original strategies of equal status intercultural communication are presented, some of which include:rabulistic strategies of communicative attack, eristic strategies of communicative self-defense,– hypothetical interaction patterns of certain strategies are described, including: compliment - wittyremark pattern, bluff - improvisation pattern, negative imperative - negative imperative transformationpattern,– the hypothesis is proved that for successful intercultural communication to take place, the partnersmust be equally aware of the communicative attack and self-defense strategies.Acquiring and mastering the communicative attack and self-defense strategies enables specialistsin international relations to participate in equal status intercultural communication the content of whichis characterized by high effectiveness.

Keywords

• professional intercultural communication
• status equality
• communicative attack strategies
• self-defense strategies