“…Hence otherness, categorized in terms of alterity, is to be considered in terms of universally basic notions, forming a key concept in this or that language and requiring certain linguistically and culturally specific categorization. In contemporary humanitarian science, alterity is viewed as a complementary category, and its content is elaborated through philosophical, psychological, religious, sociological, literary as well as linguistic research (Bakhtin, 1997;Levinas, 1999;Baldry & Paul, 2006;Bamberg, De Fina & Schiffrin, 2011;Baker, 2015;Zheltukhina et al 2016;Qazi & Shah, 2017;Boeva-Оmelechko et al, 2018;Gazizov XLinguae, Volume 16 Issue 1, January 2023, ISSN 1337-8384, eISSN 2453-711X et al, 2020Repina et al, 2018;Tameryan et al, 2018;Tameryan et al, 2020;Baigozhina et al, 2020;Baranova et al, 2020;Zheltukhina, Zelenskaya & Ponomarenko, 2020;Nurutdinova et al, 2020;Abramova et al, 2020;Baktiyarova et al, 2021;Protassova, 2021;Shiryaeva et al, 2022;Tameryan, Zyubina & Zheltukhina, 2022). If viewed philosophically, the category of alterity is contemplated as a binary entity, as it presupposes a meaningful correlation of one and the other regarding distinguishing similarities and differences.…”