SZCZERY PRZYJACIEL JAK SZCZERE ZŁOTO? (uwagi do leksykografi cznego obrazu szczerości)
Remarks to the lexicographic picture of szczerość (honesty)

Summary/Abstract: The author conducts the analysis of lexicographic studies which refer to the adjective szczery (honest) and suggests a description including information which is mostly ignored by lexicographers (or presented unsystematically), inter alia attributive / predicative usage of the adjective, possibility of negation, possibility of applaying non-contrastive sentence stress, derivational characteristics, attitude towards gradation. Including elements mentioned above, it is apparent that the adjective szczery (honest) functions on two different levels of a utterance. It is not only used when speaking „about the world”, objective speaking, but it also describes the level of speaking about speaking itself, where the speaker comments on the spot their own speaking activities.

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