Lexical-semanic determinants of the summer country side landscapes in the novel by Maria Dąbrowska Noce i Dnie Cover Image

Leksykalno-semantyczne wyznaczniki letnich pejzaży wiejskich w nocach i dniach Marii Dąbrowskiej
Lexical-semanic determinants of the summer country side landscapes in the novel by Maria Dąbrowska Noce i Dnie

Author(s): Jolanta Słoboda
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies
Published by: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Uniwersytetu Szczecińskiego
Keywords: idiolect of Maria Dąbrowska ; lexis ; semantics ; colours

Summary/Abstract: This article contains the analysis of means of expression used by Maria Dąbrowskain creating the summer countryside lanscapes. In the descriptions of nature in summerDąbrowska used: - colours characteristic for summer lanscapes, - lexis in lights and shadow,- lexis expressing the sounds and movement of the world of nature.The most frequently used colours in the linguistic creation of the world of nature in summer are: gold, yellow, light blue, green, red and white. These colours create such stylistic figures as: epithets, comparisons and methaphors.Colours and light effects give images of nature in summer a lot of plasticity and suggestiveexpressions. Lexis in sounds and movement adds them the dynamism.In the presented world the descriptions of the summer coutryside lanscapes havea poetic value since they gather realistic picture of the nature expressed with the widerange of poetic means of expression.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: 14
  • Page Range: 333-345
  • Page Count: 13
  • Language: Polish