ABSTRACT:
This report deals with the problem of influence of a new culture on migrants’ views and perception of reality. According to linguists precedent phenomena are important elements of ethnic culture (V.V. Krasnih, D.B. Gudkov, Y.N. Karaulov) and have an associative potential which can vary in different cultures even in the case of one and the same phenomena.
Migrants have their own corpus of precedent phenomena determined by their ethnic culture. While living in a new cultural setting migrants can either acquire new precedent phenomena with the meaning typical of a new culture or change this ethnic meaning through the process of categorization. At the same time the meaning of the known precedent phenomena can change under the influence of new ethnic culture.
This process can be seen in Art, for example, in the books of migrant writers I. Asimov, V. Nabokov, W. Saroyan. In this report I will analyze the process of innovations in the sphere of precedent phenomena as the result of migration.
