FORMING OF THE IDENTITY IN TRANSFORMING SOCIETIES USING FOREIGN LANGUAGE TEXTBOOKS (ON THE EXAMPLE OF CHINA)

Abstract

The article analyzes the role of foreign language textbooks in constructing of the social identity in Chinese society. Тhe work explains the role of foreign languages learning for the constructing of a complex social identity of the subject, based on the analysis of the corpus of Chinese foreign language textbooks from 1950 till 2021. This lets the author make a conclusion about the dynamics of their content and methodological components. The scientific novelty of the study lies in identifying of several stages in the constructing of the identity in Chinese society, based on the transforming practice of learning a foreign language. The paper reveals the dynamics of social identity from the unambiguous appropriation of “another’s” (1950s) to the opposition of “one’s own” – “another’s” (2020).