The Peculiarities of National Communicative Behavior of Grecian Guides-Translators
The author argues that an important aspect of intercultural communication is the communicative behavior of representatives of different linguistic cultures. Knowledge of the features of communicative behavior allows developing effective methods of foreign language teaching. The article examines the specifics of the national communicative behavior of the Greeks, studying the Russian language, on the example of a survey of the future guides-translators, and reveals the following features of the communicative tactics of the Greeks: minimizing the risk of conflict; willingness to compromise; tact; attentiveness to the interlocutor. It was found that the Greeks tend to avoid any conflicts, appeal to humor as a tactic used to get out of difficult situations. The author concludes that in case of professional orientation of teaching Russian as a foreign language it is necessary to model training and professional situations in order to prepare students to communicate with representatives of another culture.