Round table discussion “The Russian language personality in international communication

In this article the author reviews the basic materials of the plenary session within the conceptual framework of the Annual Round table discussion “The Russian language personality in international communication”, which took place in Novosibirsk on the 25th– 26th of October 2024. The Round table discussion was organized and held by the Department of the Russian language in Siberia (The Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences) in collaboration with the Institute of Humanities (Novosibirsk State University) and Leontyev scientific and and educational center (Moscow). The Round table was dedicated to the 300th anniversary of the Russian Academy of Sciences. The plenary discussion was concerned with a number of fundamental and practical issues connected with the main goals of contemporary research on the RLP’s functioning under modern conditions of life in the Russian state-civilization. The other issues in the focus of the plenary session concerned the potential and subject matter of the domestic academic science with its diagnostic methodological toolkit which is applicable to speech activities, communicative behavior, and international relations in this country; the development of current scientific schools of thought and new interdisciplinary achievements of linguistics and its sister-sciences. In particular, on the Russian experimental and empirical data the following key problems were under consideration: the subject matter of ethnography, ethnology, and anthropology, some key aspects of research on the phenomenon of ethnos and interethnic communication in the light of recent discussions about the strategy of the state national policy; different methods and approaches to the study of Russian image of the world; ethnocultural, demographic, and other dimensions of the regional linguistic situations in Russia (especially in the Asian-Pacific region), the specific associated problems of formation and functioning of the RLP under new unstable geopolitical conditions; the issue of interdisciplinary collaboration in the sphere of experimental psycholinguistic study of national feelings of Russian young people, their complementarity in international relationships; regulation of speech behavior; ethnic profiles and professionally specific features of the RLP; ontogenesis and diagnostics of age-specific socio-communicative attitudes of the RLP. Yakut, Persian, Mongolian, Chinese, English, and other linguo-cultural illustrative materials were used by the speakers who presented the results of their comparative studies.