Aktual'nost' sopostavitel'nogo izučenija jazykovogo soznanija russkich i ital'jancev pri obučenii mežkul'turnoj kommunikazii

Comparative linguistics and cultural studies are key intellectual tools for research of a theoretical nature, as well as for a concrete understanding of our increasingly more multilingual and multicultural societies. Interculturality is now a determining factor with regard to mobility and globalization and it should be primarily investigated. The article deals with the representation of values in the language conscious of respondents from Italia and Russia. It has revealed some certain similarities in the estimates of respondents belonging to different samples and some significant differences between them