Segmentacja tygodnia w świadomości współczesnych Polaków
The segmentation of the week in the awareness of contemporary Poles

Summary/Abstract: The study concerns contemporary changes in the Polish conceptualization of the week. They result from the socio-cultural transformations in the country. Analyzed are lexicographic definitions of the names of tydzień (the week) and the results of the questionnaire administered in the years 2010--2012 to a hundred inhabitants of the Lublin region, aged 18--85. The question asked was: “Which day is the beginning of the week?”. Both the lexicographic data and the subjects’ responses point to two days: Sunday or Monday. These correspond to two attitudes: religious and secular, respectively, of which the latter currently predominates. The treatment of Sunday as the final, seventh day of the week results from the loosening of the ties between many people and the Catholic Church, as well as from a more liberal social lifestyle.

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