The Category of Hostility as a Unity of the Sociocognitive and Communicative Dimensions

The article considers the category of hostility, or intolerance (the terms are used as synonyms), a binary unity its sociocognitive and communicative dimensions. Communicative categories characterized in paper most general concepts that organize person’s knowledge about communication norms rules implementation. Special attention is paid by author to tolerance, which – according main characteristics (these include anti-conflict non-categorical character well non-impositivity) adjacent politeness. It emphasized politeness tolerance not identical their nature. Based on research O. A. Mikhailova, cognitive, ethical, pragmatic foundations described. has been established intolerance, based same cognitive grounds namely alienness identity represented speaker’s mind friend-or-foe (we vs. they) opposition play an important role determining place world. ethical hostility good evil, bad, only but also nature: person justify certain value positions. basis motivation subjects directly related psychological attitude. subject allows us study dimension and, consequence, aspect more detail.