Communicative type of “stranger” (based on the English and Russian artistic communication )

The article deals with the peculiarities of the verbal and actional behaviour of strangers as a generalized communicative type in the Russian and English artistic communication. The revealing of the semantic features of the type is topical for the choice of the contents of the communicative competence that is necessary both for the intra- and intercultural communication in the situation of communication, the dominant category feature of which is otherness.