Uchodźca i inne nazwy osób opuszczających swój kraj
Uchodźca (‘refugee’) and other names of people leaving their country

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the semantic-pragmatic analysis of the word uchodźca (‘refugee’), chosen for the word of the year 2015, and discussing other synonymous names of people leaving their country. The author cites lexicographic data, mainly from Słownik języka polskiego edited by Witold Doroszewski and Wielki słownik języka polskiego PAN as well as information about the frequency and typical contexts of the words under discussion, extracted from the National Corpus of Polish. It shows the mutual connections between lexemes in this semantic field and the place of these words on the mental map of Poles.

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