Współczesny stereotyp Polaka i Ukraińca w opinii studentów filologii Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego (na podstawie badań ankietowych)
Modern stereotype of a Pole and a Ukrainian in the opinion of students of philology of the University of Lodz (on the basis of survey studies)

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a reconstruction – on a material of 394 surveys – of modern stereotypes of a Pole/Ukrainian among the students of the Faculty of Philology of the University of Lodz. An analysis of several points of more extensive questionnaire was proposed, namely: a request to provide a definition of a Pole/Ukrainian; expressions with the same reference as the Pole/Ukrainian; features of a “typical” and “real” Pole/Ukrainian. In student definitions of the name Pole/Ukrainian, geographical, ethnic, nationality categorization is more often used, while linguistic, ethical, and identity are used less often. The students consider lexeme Polachek, compatriot, countryman, ours, theirs and others, as equivalents of the word Pole and they give names instead of the word Ukrainian: foreigner, neighbour, brother from the east and others. The image of a “real” Pole/Ukrainian is more positive than the image of a “typical” representative of the nationality. Both for a Pole and a Ukrainian, the stereotypical image emerging from the survey data is ambivalent. The influence of national stereotypes on teaching Polish as a foreign language and the possibility of using the obtained data in glottodidactics were taken into account.

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