The article deals with the features of the Other-image in the structure of linguistic personality in comparison with the related concepts of self-image, my other I,I the Other. It is stated that I and the Other are interpenetrating phenomena of objective reality as far as they interact in communicative activities. Other-image is an important component of a communicative act: it is the basis for the unified communication centreof interaction and the formation of all possible Iof a personality that develop in interrelations with the Other I.

There is covered the issue of otherness in the Russian language, considered in the broadest aspect (as a category of philosophy and logic) and in a narrow aspect (as a category of linguistics). There are sorted out the signs peculiar to otherness as a communicative category.