MULTICULTURAL COMMUNICATION IN THE VASYL MAKHNO`S ESSAYS

Abstract

The article deals with the phenomenon of intercultural communication in the essays of Ukrainian writer Vasyl Makhno, ways of its expression and textual representation in the author`s works with help of imagological method. During last decades the problem of intercultural communication has become relevant in literary scientific thought in connection with the phenomenon of globalization, in particular in the context of imagological studies focused on the opposition of «own» and «other». The scientific research analyzes the functioning of the intercultural communication models in the writer's textual representation, highlights the main ones, investigates the ways of interaction between representatives of different ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds during the exchange of messages. The article also focuses on the study of the multicultural space of the borderland in the Vasyl Makhno's essays, where the boundaries between «own» and «other» are blurred and intercultural communication is more pronounced and concentrated. It has been proved that in the conditions of polyphony of different ethnic groups, the process of communication, in addition to integration into each other's culture, can also be destructive, as evidenced by wars and the extermination of one nation to another. The article also examines the writer's communication as a representative of the Ukrainian ethnotype with heteroimages and cultures of «others», where the exchange of messages has a rather subjective authorial perception. The investigation also clarified the issues of intertextual intercultural communication, the emergence of stereotypes and their destruction due to the interaction of different ethnic groups and cultural backgrounds. In addition, the research focuses on the author's perception of the world through the problem of intercultural communication.