Constructing ethnic consciousness in multicultural environment

Abstract

The article is devoted to national identity which
includes some primordial factors (historical, areal-chronological,
territorial, linguistic, ethnic, political) and different manifestations
of human social being. Ethnic identity is realized
in speech experience where ethnicity is a communicative resource.
The «mother tongue» category is a typical expression
of national identity. The construction of ethnic consciousness
in multicultural environment is a result of intercultural communication.