Communicative personality of minority culture representatives in intercultural situations

Abstract

The article is devoted to analysis of intercultural communication features of minority culture representatives (using Karelians as an example) in connection with their communicative personality characteristics. Significant differences in styles of interethnic communication of Karelians and Russians were not found in the study. Numerous links between their communicative personality characteristics and interethnic interaction styles were revealed and analyzed. Speech characteristics of personality were proved to be a reliable source of information about personality characteristics of the subject of speech activity that determined his/her style of intercultural interaction and socialization in other culture environment.