Contrastive Linguistics in Modern Linguistics: Status, Problems, Methods

The first decade of the new millennium brought with it great changes in all spheres of human life. Urbanization, the creation of artificial intelligence, smart-city, the construction of "smart houses" are associated with a large flow of information in different languages, which leads to an intensification of the dialogue of cultures. Intercultural communications are expanding, the volume of material in a foreign language is increasing, which in turn leads to the study of foreign languages, the ability to use various kinds of dictionaries and a great demand for the creation of high-quality translation dictionaries, phrasebooks, reference books.