Fiction As a Phenomenon of Intercultural Communication

DOI

10.2991/icpcs-19.2019.53How to use a DOI?

Keywords

intercultural communication, fiction, reader, culture, mindset, mentality, worldview, Pushkin, illustration, Bernard Shaw, Eugene Zamyatin, entropy, energy, reminiscence, dialogue

Abstract

This article treats fiction as one of the intercultural communication phenomena that promotes people’s awareness of a foreign culture, contributes to the understanding of its peculiarities. Reading foreign fiction, recipients interact with another culture, familiarize themselves with its artefacts, and adapt themselves to this foreign culture. Reading foreign fiction is seen as the most effective way of intercultural communication, which provides means for surmounting stereotypes and cultural differences. A dialogue of cultures inspiring creative work is an important part of intercultural communication. This article presents this dialogue as a case study of literary works by Bernard Shaw and Eugene Zamyatin.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

Open Access

This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Valery Evseev
AU  - Saltanat Makasheva
AU  - Tatyana Somikova
PY  - 2019/05
DA  - 2019/05
TI  - Fiction As a Phenomenon of Intercultural Communication
BT  - Proceedings of the 2019 International Conference on Pedagogy, Communication and Sociology (ICPCS 2019)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 235
EP  - 240
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/icpcs-19.2019.53
DO  - 10.2991/icpcs-19.2019.53
ID  - Evseev2019/05
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