Jak użytkownicy polszczyzny myślą i mówią o doświadczaniu bólu fizycznego
How Polish Language Users Think and Speak of Experiencing Physical Pain

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the picture of pain on the basis of analysis of numerous constructions with a lexem ból [pain], derived from dictionaries of contemporary Polish and from Korpus Języka Polskiego Wydawnictwa Naukowego PWN. The greatest attention was paid to metonymies and conceptual metaphors, with the help of which Polish language users think and speak of physical pain: the way they understand experiencing this type of pain, what they compare it with, what kind of notion models they recall. Facing pain – physical suffering – is showed in the following aspects (profi les): 1) act/process of pain; 2) actions of pain – subject; 3) facing pain by the subject; 4) the subject’s actions to reduce, get rid of pain; 5) means used by the subject to reduce pain; 6) location, locator of pain. In the last part of the article, the author sketches the research perspectives on the issue of pain in comparative aspect. Trans. A. Gierba

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