UŻYCIE RZECZOWNIKA DEPRAWACJA JAKO ŹRÓDŁO WIEDZY O PROBLEMACH DOTYCZĄCYCH MORALNOŚCI
The USE Of The NOUN DEPRAWACJA [‘DEPRAVITY’] AS A SOURCE Of KNOWLEDGE ABOUT MORAL ISSUES

Summary/Abstract: The article aims at indicating the topics to which the noun deprawacja [‘depravity’] has referred in Polish over the last century. The study covered material excerpted from four corpora of the Polish language from the period 1919–2021, additionally divided into four shorter time intervals. Data analysis shows the actions that are widely discussed and negatively assessed due to their possible effect: violation of socially accepted moral norms. The research leads to conclusions about the changes in the scope of the noun deprawacja over the last hundred years. There is a visible increase in topics related to sexuality, a decrease in the percentage of contexts related to crime or ideological depravity, and a comparable level of statements related to general ethical problems.

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