Collected articles                        Issue 2017 
of teaching foreign languages, intercultural communication is the object of 
close attention of scientists. 
The  pages  of  the  scientific  literature  pay  great  attention  to  the 
problem  of  intercultural  communication  in  professional  and  pedagogical 
activity.  One  of  the  aspects  of  this  direction  is  the  study  of  non-verbal 
means of  communication,  which  plays an important role in  the process  of 
intercultural interaction, since it is known that various means of non-verbal 
communication  (gesture,  facial  expression,  posture,  view,  distance)  are  in 
some cases more expressive and effective than words. In modern linguistics, 
culturology,  the  methodology  of  teaching  foreign  languages,  intercultural 
communication  is  the  object  of  close  attention  of  scientists.  Among  the 
works  in  the  field  of  cultural  communication  are  the  works  of 
Vereshchagin E. M.,  Ignatova I. B.,  Kostomarov V. G.,  Mitrofanova O. D., 
Furmanova V. P.,  Bakhtina M. M.,  Ter-Minasova S. G.,  Afanasyeva I. N., 
Busygina A. G., Busygina A. L., Grekova A. A. and others. 
According  to  me  Ter-Minasova S. G.,  the  basis  of  any 
communication  is  the  «mutual  code»,  mutual  knowledge  of  the  realities, 
knowledge  of  the  subject  of  communication  between  the  participants  in 
communication [5], so the study and teaching of a foreign language should 
be  carried  out  in  close  connection  with  the  world  of  the  speakers  of  the 
language being studied, in indissoluble unity with cultures of peoples using 
these  languages  as  a  means  of  communication.  Only  in  this  way  it  is 
possible  to  provide  foreign  language  learners  with  the  necessary 
background  knowledge,  without  it,  real  communication  is  impossible.  In 
every  country,  people  communicate  in different  ways:  in  accordance with 
their customs, traditions and mentality. In the process of communication, an 
important role belongs to  a  culture of communication, which includes not 
only  the  forms  of  speech,  but  also  its  non-verbal  component  (body 
movements, facial expressions, gestures,  etc.).  Non-verbal components are 
the most important components of communication, since they are the most 
important  carriers  of  message  values.  Most  often  the  non-verbal 
transmission occurs simultaneously  with the verbal and can either enhance 
or change the content of words. In the opinion of psychologists, 60-80% of 
communication  occurs  due  to  non-verbal  means  only  20-40%  -  due  to 
verbal  ones.  This  opinion  is  confirmed  by  researches  of  scientists  in  the 
field of cultural communication, according to the data presented in the book 
of Ter-Minasova’s S. G. «War and the World of Languages and Cultures», 
communication  consists  of:  7%  verbal  means  proper,  38%  phonetic 
language design, 55% non-verbal means [4, p. 93]. 
A  significant  contribution  to  the  problem  of  studying  non-verbal 
communication  was  made  by  domestic  and  foreign  scientists  Pease A., 
Koztsolino M., Nikolaeva T. M., Uspensky B. A., Morozov V. P.