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LOVE in English and Polish
LOVE in English and Polish

Author(s): Małgorzata Brożyna Reczko
Subject(s): Language studies, Lexis, Semantics, Sociolinguistics, Cognitive linguistics
Published by: Instytut Slawistyki Polskiej Akademii Nauk
Keywords: concept of love; linguistic picture of the world; contrastive analysis; ethnolinguistics; cognitive definition;

Summary/Abstract: The paper presents a sample contrastive analysis of the linguistic picture of love in English and Polish. The material used in the survey is drawn from lexicographic data, including the British National Corpus and Narodowy Korpus Języka Polskiego [National Corpus of Polish]. The paper focuses on the similarities and differences in conceptualizing the abstract concept of love in the English and Polish languages. An analytical method, developed by Bartmiński and associates, serves as the theoretical basis for the reconstruction of the linguistic picture of the world.

  • Issue Year: 2017
  • Issue No: 17
  • Page Range: 1-10
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English