Cross-Cultural Perception of the World Through Language Communication (Межкультурное восприятие мира посредством языковой коммуникации)

This article fosters an awareness of cross-cultural issues inherent in language communication through our perception of the world, non-verbally or verbally whenever we speak, listen, read, and write. Language communication offers cross-cultural insights and knowledge about speakers of English and other languages. We can communicate non-verbally through gestures without any sounds or verbally using symbols as words to form phrases and express our thoughts. Thus, we can explore a closer cross-cultural understanding of speakers of English and other languages whenever we exchange a cross-cultural perception through language communication by examples used in encounters, conversation or through readings.

How does one perceive a culture as a language communicator?

To what extent do culture and environment influence a language?

Or does a language prescribe how one perceives the world?

How does the acquisition and knowledge of languages open new words to people across cultures?

In order to understand a cross-cultural perception of the world, we must be aware of the fields of Anthropology and Ethnography and how these influence our cultural perception and understanding of language interaction. Anthropology and Ethnography are both scientific disciplines. While Anthropology studies the origins of man, physical and cultural development, biological, social customs, and the beliefs of humankind, Ethnography describes the varieties and characteristics of language use within a cultural group and derives into ethnolinguistics and psycholinguistics. So, Anthropology helps us to understand a perception of culture and Ethnography analyzes language use within the context of a cultural group.

“How Does One Perceive a Culture as a Language Communicator?”

Perception can be described as primarily known to be dual and more in the 21st century: that is to say, sensory, extra-sensory, hypersensory, non-sensory, and beyond the senses.

Sensory perception is an awareness of any stimuli through the known senses, that is sight (visual), hearing (auditory), taste (gustatory), touch (tactile), and smell (olfactory).

Extra-sensory perception is an awareness of any stimuli beyond the known senses through telepathy, “mind reading”, clairvoyance, precognition, listening, psycho-spiritual sensing, psychokinesis, “minding”, dreams, other psychic phenomena, hypnosis, hypnopaedia, trances, meditation, astral projection through out-of-body experience, drugs and otherwise.

Hypersensory perception is an extreme awareness and sensitivity to any stimuli described before.

Non-sensory is an unconscious state where the senses have been numbed and only vital signs of life remain without consciousness.

Perception beyond the known senses is not easy to describe though it is intuitively known to exist as an awareness.

We can perceive a culture through various modes in language communication as the “awareness” of a group and its expression in a non-verbal way, verbal, written or through visual imaging and otherwise, by which we exchange information. It is during this dynamic process that cross-cultural perception takes place. Cross-cultural perception develops when we become aware of sensory, extra-sensory, hypersensory, non-sensory, and beyond the senses stimuli across cultures and contexts, through observation, experience, exposure, interaction, exchanges within an environmental context, point in time, here and now—a fluctuation across cultures becomes cross-cultural transcendence.

Whenever we engage in the process of identifying with another beyond ordinary or common experience, feelings, emotions, thought or belief, spiritually, psychically, sexually, culturally, and linguistically—across time, space, and physical presence—within a cultural context, then we experience cross-cultural transcendence, that is to say, “You Are Me; I Am You”. The Transcendental Processes take place in a mutual exchange.

In the 21st Century, we can fluctuate and move easily across cultures and contexts, perceptions, worldviews, and states of mind, transcendentally, “You Are Me; I Am You”—through the known senses and beyond… while we acquire a cross-cultural perception of the world through language communication.

One’s life in the United States of America, in the Windy City of Chicago, acquires a Cross-Cultural Perception of the World Through Language Communication, thanks to people like Mayor Richard M. Daley.