Native Speakers’ Images of Mother Tongue, First and Second Foreign Languages as a System of Autoand Heterostereotyped Conceptions
The paper analyzes students’ national stereotypes dynamics in situations of intercul-tural communication. The dynamics is considered on the example of a Russian student’s national conceptions about Americans and Germans before and after her visits to the USA and BRD, a case study method being used. The study supports the hypotheses that auto-and heterostereotypes are interdependent and function as a system