Prosodic pragmatics of social relations as a code to comprehension of behaviour stereotypes in cross-cultural communication

The article is devoted to the investigation of the prosodic pragmatics of social relations, as a national lingocultural component in the structure of a dialogue in the frame of cross-cultural communication. Behaviour stereotypes that characterize different ethnic groups is in the focus of the researcher's scientific attention; reasons of the negative perception of the ethnic groups' behaviour by native speakers in the process of cross-cultural contacts are considered and analyzed.