Language Culture as a Component of the International Relations Specialists Training: Origins and Present

The purpose of the work is to state the speech culture role in the training of the international sphere of activity specialists as an instrument of interaction with different cultures while performing their professional duties. The methodology of the study is to use such research methods as study, analyses and generalization in order to reveal the notion of speech culture, namely, diplomatic eloquence as the ability to choose and exercise speech act (speech behaviour) depending on the professional speech’ goals and content through linguistic means, as well addressing to the strategy and tactics of communication. The scientific novelty is to describe the problem of mastering the diplomatic eloquence skills as an act of a cultural dialogue implementation in the international experts’ professional activity. The problems of communication, discourse, and various professional skills formation of specialists from various fields have widely been discussed in the scientific literature, but the problem of diplomatic communication and the speech culture formation skills in the context of professional international activity remains to be studied. Conclusions. Language is not merely a means of diplomatic communication, but rather a tool for expanding diplomatic sphere of activity. Since every language is deeply rooted in a certain culture, it is a unique representation of the world picture. However, the cultural dialogue, implemented through eloquence between different countries, requires the existence of complex multidimensional processes. Thus, diplomatic negotiations, even held in the same language, sometimes do not reach the positive result because of the impossibility and inability to convey the message content.