THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN CULTURE AND COGNITION

Abstract

Contemporary society is swarming with constantly altering paradigms and emerging trends, which are fluctuating within the array of punctilious socio-cultural relationships.
It goes without saying that the global shift of events, which entails such notions as national disruption, cultural discrepancies and numerous misinterpretations of implications, leads to local and global havoc within the scope of multilingual and multicultural interactions. Nevertheless, regardless of the swiftly changing pace of ideas and commonly perceived concepts, there is a notion, which remains unaltered, i.e., an individual's socio-cultural background. The latter entails the whole set of factors, ranging from the psychological state of a person, his or her implicit and explicit knowledge and lexical aptitudes. This particular article accumulated a solid set of international respondents, thus delineating the core idea of what exactly moulds us, as units of society, subsequently adapting our perception of utterances, interpretation of interlocutors and the grasp of transpiring events. The author truly believes that the overall accumulation of international responses might serve as a great launching ground and the premise for further multilingual and inter socio-cultural research.