Metaforyczna konceptualizacja natury życia chrześcijańskiego w wypowiedziach uczestników rekolekcji oazowych dla dorosłych
The Metaphorical Conceptualisation of the Nature of Christian Life in Questionnaire Answers from Participants in Oasis Retreats for Adults

Summary/Abstract: The aim of the present paper is to analyse the conceptualisation of the nature of the Christian life from questionnaire answers provided by participants in Oasis Retreats for adults. In line with the assumptions of cognitive semantics, the conceptualisation of the religious sphere, including the notion of Christian life, is based on conceptual metaphors. Participants in Oasis Retreats are people involved in the Catholic Light-Life Movement, which means that they are believers who have the experience of living a Christian life. Their answers were collected by means of a questionnaire containing open questions which concerned their understanding and experience of faith. The analysis of the answers studied involved identifying the source domains of the metaphors for Christian life, presenting the most and the least popular of them, and showing the lexical correlates used by the respondents to express their metaphorical conceptualisation of the nature of Christian life. Special attention was drawn to the conceptual-cognitive context of the Light-Life Movement that, in line with the latest theories concerning conceptual metaphor, plays a significant role in triggering the use of metaphors in discourse.

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