ABSTRACT
The intensification of worldwide mobility poses a challenge for understanding the dynamics of human exploration of new conditions through intercultural dialogues and experiences. This chapter discusses those changes that involve individuals' intercultural interaction and their experience of foreign cultural elements in terms of the theory of proculturation. It is crucial to look at proculturation microgenetically in order to understand how a person makes sense of new cultural environments step by step. Proculturative process might be initiated at any stage of human life anywhere in the world; however, the most intensive form of proculturation evolves when people leave their native semiosphere, and occur in a foreign sociocultural environment where foreign elements dominate the scene. Proculturation is carried out by an agentic self—the wilful and goal-oriented actor in one's life. In terms of Dialogical Self Theory, this represents the totality of dynamic I-positions which are self-related and self-defining semiotic signs.
