łownikowe obrazy podróży w językach polskim, angielskim i japońskim w perspektywie analizy synonimii leksykalnej
A lexicographic image of journey in Polish, English and Japanese – lexical synonymy analysis

Summary/Abstract: The act of travelling, as a phenomenon essential for a human being, is discussed bynumerous researchers from various disciplines. The following article is a linguisticcontribution to the ongoing discussion. It attempts to determine the image of journeyin Polish, English and Japanese. To do that, lexicographic analysis of the semanticfields of the words podróż, journey, and 旅 tabi was conducted. The study consistedof an excerption of the above words’ synonyms and an analysis of their definitions.The scrutiny of lexical synonymy of the data collected from 21 dictionaries made it possibleto distinguish nine main linguistic profiles that form the general linguistic imageof journey in the analysed languages. It was observed that five out of the nine profiles werepresent in all three languages, namely: the spatial profile, temporal profile, intentionalprofile, means-of-transportation-oriented profile, and adventure-oriented profile. Also,Japanese showed limited variation of the profiles; thus, the image of journey in thislanguage is the least complex. Japanese dictionaries list the lowest number of lexemes(30) semantically related to 旅 tabi. For Polish and English, it was respectively 43 and69. Additionally, the analysis also revealed a different approach toward lexical synonymyand dictionary compilation in the three languages, which can pose a problem in this typeof comparative research.

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