The synergy of language and culture in teaching intercultural communication to Chinese students

The article considers a synergetic approach to language and culture as a super complex selfdeveloping system. This approach is in a state of flux, functions on the basis of many parameters being a discursive, culturological and sociocultural system. The synergetic analysis of the dichotomy of language and culture enables a new knowledge acquisition about the meaning formation, the organization of communicative processes, as well as the methods of teaching Russian as a foreign language. The main author's conclusions are the following. The issue of forming communicative and cross-cultural competence is far beyond the scope of teaching foreign languages as it is often viewed in researches. These competences imply such personal qualities that cannot be formed only by means of one discipline. The issues raised in the article are equally topical both for communication in foreign and native languages. The novelty of the article is caused by the fact that the author views policultural education as the centre of a complex of cross-cultural issues: social, pedagogical, socio-cultural and socio-linguistic ones.