Ivanyuk N. Social Categorizing as a Factor of Communicative Competence of Personality

The dissertation is devoted to the problem of social categorizing as a factor of communicative competence of personality. On the basis of theoretical analysis, the social categorizing as a component of the conceptual field of social cognition has been substantiated. The types of mental representations (social categories, conceptions, stereotypes) as an actual content of social cognition and the communicative function of social categories have been defined. The ties between the social categorizing and students' communicative features have been empirically established. The author, on the basis of these ties, the student's communicative image with the formed social categorizing, has identified. The features of the social categories' introduction into the students' narratives have been described. The author has designed and introduced Communicative Practice training to develop of the students' communicative competence on the base of the social categorizing.